Kindergarten College entry standards

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32588, 23 April 1971, Page 5

Kindergarten College entry standards

Better entry qualifications should be noticeable in future selections of students, Mrs W. L. Haggitt, principal of the Kindergarten Teachers’ College, says in the annual report of the Christchurch Free Kindergarten Association.

From a total of 95 aplicants for 1971-72 training, the full quota of 40 was selected.

"With all applicants already having school certificcate, most now enter training after the completion of a sixth-form year. Of the 10 who hold only school certificate, several are older and have chosen to train after working in other spheres,” says Mrs Haggitt. When the college opened; for the year, the qualifications of the trainees ranged: from the school certificate; minimum (15 students), through endorsed school certificate and lower sixth form: certificate (11), to universityentrance (15), she says. 43 KINDERGARTENS

In her report, the president of the association, Mrs A. J.

D. Dearsley, says a further step in the association’s history was taken in March . when a forty-third kindergarten was opened at Redwood. “In 1947, Messrs T. J. Edmonds, Ltd, donated a kindergarten site in Ferry Road for the Woolston Kindergarten. The building was erected and renamed the Edmonds Park Kindergarten.” “This year the firm approached the association with a proposition that the building be shifted as the existing site was required for factory expansion.

“Towards the end of the year two approved sections |in Smith Street were purchased by the firm and the i kindergarten building in j Ferry Road is to be transpor- ; ted and re-erected on the new 'site,” says Mrs Dearsley. I The building will be painted and get a new roof and the site is to be developed along modern lines, at no expense to the association.

SOUTHERN MOTORWAY Several meetings were held during the year to discuss the effect of the proposed southern motorway on the Hillmorton, Selwyn and Sydenham kindergartens. New areas have been investigated as sites, particularly in the Avondale and | Inwood Road area to the east .of Burwood Hospital. Financially, the associa- . tion was sound, says Mrs I Dearsley, with good response being recorded at street day appeals and stalls.

The full report of ail aspects of ■ the association’s work will be presented at its annual meeting on Wednesday.