SCHOOL DISPLAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1943, Page 2

SCHOOL DISPLAY

WEST AND TE ORE ORE PHYSICAL EDUCATION. MANY PARENTS IN ATTENDANCE. Yesterday the West Side School and Te Ore Ore School combined to give a display of physical education in the Victoria Street grounds. Many of the parents present wished that they could return to school to enjoy the freedom now encouraged in physical activities. ’ They envied the children as they performed their exercises with zest, with the fresh air and sunshine playing round their skins. The girls wore bloomers and blouses and the boys a pair of pants. All, from the smallest primer upwards, performed their exercises with vigour, skill, agility, and very evident enjoyment. Over 150 parents and friends enjoyed a programme of physical education at the Masterton West School on Tuesday afternoon. The primers’ singing games opened the display. From these movements a progression of exercises was traced throughotu the afternoon by all classes. A feature of modern methods is the use of imitative movements So at one time the children were “dwarfs,” while the next moment they became great giants stretching to full length, thus giving full play to the muscles and joints involved. Then, by magic changes, they became sitting rabbits or crawling cats, who, when disturbed, showed their agility by graceful hops and springs. Being allowed to give their imagination full play, the performers took their exercises with much enjoyment and abandon. The dances by the children in gay summer frocks made a change, and a happy atmosphere prevailed. Te Ore Ore pupils, under Mrs Mcßae, headmistress of the Te Ore Ore School, contributed poi dances, action songs and hakas, which were fully appreciated and accorded hearty applause. As the programme proceeded, the area organiser for physical education, Miss H. Taylor, explained all the movements and the aims of the syllabus of physical education, which is now in use throughout all the public schools.