AT NORMAL SCHOOL

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 56, 7 March 1942, Page 8

AT NORMAL SCHOOL

TRAINING COLLEGE

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Instruction of student teachers in Auckland will in future be carried ou; at the Normal School, Epsom, as the result of a decision made by the executive committee of the Auckland Education Board yesterday afternoon. , In oider to make the change-over approximately 437 puDils now at the Normal School will be found accommodation at the Epsom, Newmarket, Maungawhau and Mount Eden Schools. Each group of classes will still be taught by teachers from the Normal School, so as to preserve their identity as Normal School classes.

The chairman of the Auckland Education Board. Mr. W. J. Campbell, in commenting on the decision, said that the board had been faced with a serious difficulty in providing for the student teachers, as the Auckland Teachers' Training College at Epsom had been occupied for some time as an emergency hospital for patients from the Auckland Hospital.

The building was now required by the Government. An endeavour had been made to secure another large building in Auckland, but without success. The change-over at the Normal School would be made next week.

Mr. Campbell added that now the accommodation problem for the student teachers had been solved the decision to open the new intermediate school at Pasadena on March 23 would be adhered to.

Tne principal of the Auckland Teachers' Training College, Mr. D. M. Rae, said that when the roll was completed there would be approximately 600 student teachers. The work had been retarded, but with a readjustment of time-tables they would settle down in the hope that the work would now go ahead without interference.

There wouicr nave been considerable difficulties had it been necessary to transfer the student teachers to the Pasadena School, he said. As it was, the student teachers could continue to have the use of the baths playing areas and sports facilities in the Training College grounds. The college library of lo,oou books would be transferred to the Normal School