PARENTS’ DAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1942, Page 4

PARENTS’ DAY

GATHERING AT CENTRAL SCHOOL FINE DISPLAY OF WORK. CONCERT IN THE EVENING. Parents’ Day at the Masterton Central School yesterday was marked by beautiful weather and everything went with a swing. There was great excitement when Father Christmas visited the infants and made himself familiar with everybody. Each child leceived a present and all were regaled with ice creams. * Later some fine displays of the new physical exercises were given by Std. ISS Mul vaney), Forms 1 and 2 (Miss Cocker) and Form 2 (Mr Kennedy). _ Miss Taylor, director of physical training, was present and explained the finer points to the parents. Parents then looked through the classrooms and saw plenty of examples of children’s work, including much art and craft, work of high quality. Many appreciative remarks on its variety and quality were made. In the evening an excellent concert prograriime was presented in the Assembly Hall. The quality of the performance was, throughout, of a. high standard and reflected much credit on the staff. The programme was:—Sketch by infants; infant combined recitation; choir and verse speaking, Std. 1; mouth-or-gan solo, W. Winter; verse speaking, Std. 3; piano and vocal solo, B. Barnes; sketch, Std. 4; verse speaking, Std. 2 and 3; hornpipe, B. Woodill; recita'tion Mid sketch, Std. 2 and 1; East School Band (percussion); sketch. Form 2; sketch, Form 1; bracket of songs, Std. 2 and 3; recitation, B. Henderson; solo and dance, N. Blackwood; Irish jig, K. Catherall; sketch, Std. 4 and 5; mouth-organ solo, E. Price; choral items, Form 1 and 2; dance, B. Henderson! play, Form 2. During the interval, Mr G. Masters, deputy-chairman of the School Committee, presented the dux prize to Dorothy Benge and- also certificates. He thanked the staff for their excellent work during the year, the parents for their loyal co-operation and the Parents’ Association for its wonderful financial assistance. The headmaster, Mr E. G. Coddington, briefly thanked parents, the Parents’ Association and the School Committee and complimented the staff on their excellent year’s work under difficult circumstances. The prize list is as follows:— Dux of the school: Dorothy Benge, : Proximo accessit: Althea Dallas. First in Form I, Margaret Bannister; first in Std. 4, Patricia Bilderbeck; first in Std. 3, Patricia Cockburn; first in Std. 2, Joseph Gee Dong; first in Std. 1, Geoffrey Dagg; first in Pr. 4, Valda Ewen. Primary school certificates (Form 2): Dorothy Benge, Alison Burns, Joyce Clark, Barbara Copp, Althea Dallas, Peggv Davis, Vivienne Day, Elizabeth Dunb.ar, Joyce Fitzwater, Leonie Forrest, Winifred Gronn, Noeline Hayes, Margaret Lyttle, Ngaire Mills, Margaret Millward, Naida Murdoch, Rae Pool, Joyce Robertson, Flora Sharman, Gwendoline Shute, Noeline Spackman, Joan Torrance, Ursula Torwick, Nola Wright, John Allen, John Bennett, Hector Braggins. Leslie Clark, Trevor Denby, Frederick Fulton, Lyle Corlett, Ronald Garard, John Geary, Trevor Grantham, lan Haxton, John Hinton, Frank Howe, Trevor Judd, Bernard Loader, Patrick Marryatt, Harvey Mayhew, Trevor Nelson; Eric Price, Graeme Rigg, Richard Root, Leslie Spicer, Robert Stewart. Robert Thorne, John Turner,, Alan Wallis, William Winter. Robert Pickering. Merit certificates for home gardens (Std. 6 only, rest to be judged after holidays): Richard Root (very meritorious). John Turner, Robert Stewart, Frederick Fulton, Joyce Fitzwater.