AMBERLEY HOUSE.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17629, 5 December 1922, Page 5

AMBERLEY HOUSE.

PRESENTATION OP PHIZES. The annual presentation of prizes in ocmr nexion with the Amberley House Girls' Collegiate School took piace cn Satuiday. His Grace the Archbishop of N-w Zealand, after an appropriate spsech, presented the prizes. There was a laige attendance of p area la and friends.

In the course of her report, the head mistress, Miss King-Church, JJ..A., stated there was not very much to record of the history of the school. The school owedi a great deai to the chairman of the Board of Dir-ctora, Air Rutherford, and Mrs Rutherford for their work dn connexion with it, and to Mr A. ILcKeliar, the secretary. The work through the year had be-n most Btttisfuciory. 'ihe standard had been raised reinamabjy during the year, The JJalton system of education had been adopted and would be more iuliy developed. Xha system, sometimes oal.ed "free education," was in use in many of the beat linyiish and American echooia, and wherever it hadi been tried the verdict was that neither staJi nor pupils wish-d. U> go back to the old educational methods. It was briefly this, to bring out the individual powers of each pupil and make her selfreliant and able to teach herself. The cooperation of tile- stafi and tho confidence of the parents made the success of the new method possible. There was one request, however, that might be made to parents — that they should do their utmost to eend (heir girls to school as early as possible und to keep them there as long as possible. There was no place in the world to-day for the half-educated man or woman, and that truth was now realised in many countries. The school games were being playedi with commend.ible zest, and the school life was a very healthy one. The site of the school v.'as intentionally chosen far enough from Christchurch to be well away from the distractions of the city. The advantages of the position, far outweighed the disadvantages. Tho prize list was as follows: Form Prizes—V.: Eileen Hunnibell; IV., Zoe Rutherford; 111 , Kathleen Robinson. Divinity—Dora Warren; hon. mention, Zoe Rutherford. English Composition—Molly Murray. English Literature—Joan Jehnston. History—Betty Rutherford. French—Eileen Hunnibell; hon. mention, Dot 3. Warren. Latin—Zoe Rutherford; hon. mention, Rita Eutherforcb. Nature Study—Cara Mcßae. Drawing and Painting—Joan Malinsr; hon. mention, Relph and Betty Rutherford. Music—Mr-y Murray. Needlework—Dora "Warren; hon. mention, Cara Mcßae. Gardening—Cara Mcßae. House Prizes —Eileen Hunnibell and Kathleen .Robinson. Afternoon tea in the beautiful grounds and an inspection of the school ooaclu&d a vary successful ceremony.