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Progress, Volume II, Issue 10, 1 August 1907, Page 371

The proposed course of education is briefly as follows —For the first year the subjects necessary to a sound general education will be taught, such as are indicated in the public school syllabus for standard vii., while special attention will be paid to practical work in elementary science for both sexes, to manual training in wood and metal for boys, and to cookery and advanced plain needlework for girls. No foreign language will be taught, not because training in them is not held to be valuable, but because under the conditions of our life here they are not at present essential, and their omission will peimit more attention to be given to the study of English and more immediately important subjects. In subsequent years while the instruction in certain subjects will be the same for all pupils, in others they will be allowed to choose their course according to the occupa-