Schools Broadcasts For 1949

New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 505, 25 February 1949, Page 11

Schools Broadcasts For 1949

year will include some new social studies programmes, a comprehensive vocational guidance series, and a_ session on British law, to supplement the usual broadcasts on music, nature study and literature. On Mondays’ and Fridays throughout the year, at 1.30 p.m., Ernest Jenner will conduct musical appreciation lessons on Famous .Musical Works and Their Composers. At 1.30 p.m. on Tuesdays, Joan Taylor will present Books of All Times, a literature session for Forms 1 and 2 in which the stories of famous books are presented in dramatic form, During the first term, at 1.45 p.m. on. Tuesdays, Tom Tyndall’s_ social studies series for Forms 1 and 2, called What is the Law? will be broadcast, outlining the growth and nature of British common and statute law from the time of trial by battle to the present day. At the same time during the second term Rachel Wheeler will present This is Our Town, a social studies series designed to cater for a wide age-group in the smaller country schools. The series will tell the story of life in an imaginary small New Zealand town called Winterton, and aims at stimulating pupils to find out things for themselves about their own locality. At 1.45 p.m. on Tuesdays during the third term, there will be a series of broadcasts by Amabel Williams-Ellis, to schools this

called What Shall I Be? In these programmes school listeners can enjoy something they have liked from their earliest years-finding out what it is that grownup people do when they are working. ‘Eleven jobs have been chosen, and the programmes will be dramatized and take the form of actual or reported interviews. At 1.30 p.m. on Wednesdays Rhythm Movement and Musical Appreciation lessons by Jean Hay and William Trussell Will be heard. They are based on the idea that physical movement is the most natural and instinctive response to music in childhood. Storytime for Juniors, by Rachel Wheeler, will be broadcast at 1.50 p.m. on Wednesdays.’ At 1.30 pm. on Thursdays T. J. Young and the studio class will conduct their weekly singing lesson. Alec Rowley has written another special booklet for the NZBS for this session. During the first and second terms at 1.45 p.m. on Fridays, Adventurer Explorers, by Allona Priestley, and Seven Thousand Miles from New Zealand, by Celia Manson, will be presented on alternate weeks. Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, and Sir Francis Drake are some of those dealt with in the first series, while the second describes life in such countries as Alaska, Tibet, Arizona, India and Brazil. At the same time in the third term, the series Nature Study for Standards 1 and 2, by J. McK. Miller, will be broadcast.