HIGH SCHOOL AT LINCOLN

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24446, 21 December 1944, Page 4

HIGH SCHOOL AT LINCOLN

ESTABLISHMENT NEXT YEAR . APPROVAL OP DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Notification has been received from the Department of Education of the approval of the establishment of a district high school at Lincoln, according to advice given yesterday by Mr C. S. Thompson, chairman of the Canterbury Education Board. Mr Thompson said that the school would be established next February. The school is the outcome of deputations by the Lincoln School Committee. Recently the Canterbury Education Board received an'application from the school committee for a district high school at Lincoln, and it was decided to submit the matter to the Education Department, together with a recommendation that the school should be established® from ’ the beginning of next year. The chairman of the Lincoln School Committee (Mr J. W. Calder) said last evening that there was a prospective role for the school of about 47 pupils, who would be divided into forms 3, 4, and 5, and also into three courses, professional, commercial, and rural. The object of the rural course, which would be open to both girls and boys, would be to equip them for life in the country. In this course instruction would be given in farm inspection and in farm work by authorities at Canterbury Agricultural College. The instruction given there would be similar to, but would extend the form of, the instruction which has been given in past years’, to pupils of Christchurch Technical College, Christ’s College, and St. Andrew’s College, who had been visiting the college once a week. To begin with, a temporary structure would be erected to accommodate the pupils in the grounds of the present primary school at Lincoln, Mr Calder said. Made from prefabricated material and erected by the Education Department, the building would consist of two rooms with a cloak room E laced between them. There would e two teachers when the school started.

Mr Calder gave a list of the districts surrounding Lincoln where the children are living who have enrolled to attend the new high school. They are Little River, Motukarara, Greenpark, Ladbrooks, Prebbleton, Ellesmere (township), Springston, Spripgston South, and Broadfield, Most of the pupils will be transported to and from school by railway, and a few by regular bus services, continued Mr Calder. This would mean that no special road services would be necessary—a factor which probably aided the* Education Department to come to its favourable decision. Some ceremony, possibly in the form of a field day, would be held to celebrate the opening of the school. “The object of establishing the school is not to provide an’ agricultural course alone or to train farmers, but to provide secondary education for country children,” concluded Mr Calder.