SCHOOL GARDENS IN DECLINE
Concern Expressed By Board Members Of 105 Canterbury schools visited during July, about half had no school garden, or one that was considered “quite inadequate,” the Canterbury Education Board was’’•informed yesterday. Members of the board’s agriculture committee had" expressed “the greatest concern” at the tendency of school gardens to disappear, it was reported. A letter would be sent to the district senior school inspector asking for his support in encouraging this activity, and in seeking the co-operation of his inspectors by endeavouring to “persuade” teachers to establish school gardens, it was decided. A similar letter will be sent to the principal of the Teachers' College asking that the value of school gardening activities be placed before all students “with a view to developing a desire to include tins activity in their programmes of work when they take up teaching positions.”
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29264, 23 July 1960, Page 7
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