SCHOOL NURSE SCHEME

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28939, 6 July 1959, Page 13

SCHOOL NURSE SCHEME

Teachers Relieved For Classes “The Press” Special Service AUCKLAND, July 5. Employing school nurses on an experimental basis with a view to releasing teachers for full-time teaching duties was suggested ( at a meeting of the Auckland Grammar Schools’ board of governors yesterday. Miss R. .1. Gardner, headmistress of Auckland Girls’ Grammar School, said she hoped that the trial scheme for librarians wojld succeed and that schools would be able to avail themselves quickly of the additional staffing. Another way in which she considered the staffing situation could be helped, particularly in girls’ schools, was by relieving teachers of the need to give first aid.

Auckland Girls’ Grammar School had been experimenting for three years and was now convinced of the success of its school nurse scheme. The experiment had no official backing and was carried out at the school's expense.

Miss Gardner suggested that the board ask the Education Department to finance the scheme on an experimental part-time basis so that it would undergo a rigid test in savin? the time of teachers and providing a much-needed social service to pupils and parents. . jjjfrajyk . The board has a remit on the question for discussion at the New

Zealand Secondary School Boards’ Association conference next month and it was left to delegates to press the matter.