BROADCASTS TO SCHOOLS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 763, 5 March 1954, Page 9

BROADCASTS TO SCHOOLS

HEN Broadcasts to Schools goes on the air again from YA and YZ stations on Monday, March 8, it will bring to its growing audience of children and teachers-and not a few parents---some new programmes as well as others that have become well established over the years. One of the most interesting of the new ones is The Changing Face of New Zealand, which will be heard during the first term on Fridays in the Social Studies series for Forms 1 and 2. Early settlers who arrived expecting to find New Zealand a land of green fields and quiet rivers had a big job before them -clearing bush, driving roads, fording and bridging rivers and harnessing them for power. Something of what has been done in 150 years is described by Professor George Jobberns in this programme. Socia] Studies series for older children in the, second and third terms are on England in the Middle Ages, and new programmes in Names That Made History, which began last year. Among the subjects in the new series is Sir George Grey. In the second term also will be an Amabel Williams-Ellis series, on Men Who Found Out; and new programmes on science and communications in the third term will be The Earth and Its Neighbours, a series which should appeal to young space travellers, and Messages Along the Track, from electric telegraphy to radio. A new name in music programmes this year is Joan Easterbrook-Smith, of the Correspondence School, who on Fridays will be conducting Singing for Juniors-a session for Standards 1 to 3. This will take in some of the children who formerly had singing with T. J. Young’s studio class on Thursdays, which in future will be for Standards 4 to Form 2. Ernest Jenner. wil] continue on Mondays to encourage, the appreciation of music among senior pupils. During the first term he will discuss different types of voice. Voices of the Wild is_a new nature study programme produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation which will be broadcast on Tuesdays in the first term for Standards 3 and 4. Each broadcast centres round one animal-a

bear, a beaver and a moose-whose calls will be identified ‘and practised. Nature study for these classes will be given by the Christchurch Training College Group in the second term, and by Crosbie Morrison’s Junior Naturalists’ Club in the third. Social Studies for Standards 3 and 4 in the first and second terms will deal with life in other lands. This year’s Commonwealth Exchange Programmes, to bé heard in the third term, will include a train journey across the Nullabor Plain, a portrait of a British policeman and a visit to Canadian Blood Indians in their reservation.

Pat Among established programmes to be heard again wil] be The World We Live In and the French lesson for post-pri-mary schools on Mondays, Here Lies Adventure (for Forms 1 and 2), and the Literature Series (for Standards 3 and 4) ongluesdays, and Rhythm and Storytime Tor Juniors on Wednesdays.

\V HEN Wellington’s City Council sponsored continental style open-air dancing in its botanical gardens recently, the capital’s citizens took to it like ducks to the pond near by. The picture at left shows some of the estimated 2000 who danced on the lawn te music from the George Miller Orchestra in the soundshell in the background. The shell was opened only recently, and one of the first bands to appear at it was that of the Royal Yacht Gothic. Station 2ZB has already broadcast excerpts from two of the open-air performances, but this, Sun‘day, March 7, at 3.40 p.m., it will give listeners a sound picture of the whole summer series. In a programme entitled Music by Moonlight listeners will hear Wellington artists under Henry Rudolph, the George Miller Orchestra, and the Alex Lindsay Strings. In addition, Councillor Denis MceGrath will outline the City’s plans for the sound shell and its arboreal auditorium next summer.