Holiday Coaching Demand Smaller

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30845, 2 September 1965, Page 2

Holiday Coaching Demand Smaller

With the third term soon to begin, youngsters anticipating the School Certificate examination with dread have a friend in the Young Women’s Christian Association.

In the third week of the holidays the association is running coaching classes. For the last two years these classes have been very popular, but the response had not ! been so great this year and : there are still vacancies, particularly in the shorthand speed lessons. Morning classes are held in English, mathematics, and shorthand. Taught by excellent secondary school teachers, i students are given a chance 1 to revise work at the School Certificate level. The number considered ideal for a class is 25, and the study period is kept down to an hour and a quarter. “Very little was done in this way until a ‘Y.W.’ in Hamilton began a course three years ago, and had great success,” Mrs F. W. Gunz, executive director of the Christchurch association said yesterday.

“We have had no trouble obtaining very good teachers who keep the lessons fairly simple so that everyone can profit There are also people who are doing it later in life. BOYS ATTENDING “The classes are by no means exclusively for girls. Half our students in other years have been boys, and they fit in very well,” she said. The course is not an expensive one, with a fee of £1 for

the five classes beginning next Monday at 9.15 a.m. “Last year applications just poured in, and we had to run two classes in all subjects,” Mrs Gunz said. “This year we feel sure there are many people who could gain, but they don’.t know we are running these classes. “We hear nothing but good reports. Perhaps it is seeing things from a different angle, for teachers do say this often helps.”