Night classes at Hagley H.S.

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32637, 19 June 1971, Page 1

Night classes at Hagley H.S.

(By our education reporter)

Hagley High School will set up, next year, night classes which will eventually cater for more than 800 students.

Now pursuing a policy of regarding the whole city as its “catchment area” the school’s board of governors is enthusiastic over Department of Education approval for the scheme. These classes will deal with school certificate and university entrance subjects. Four years will be taken to establish the 40 classes necessary to transfer the classes previously dealt with by the

Christchurch Technical Instr tute.

The rise of the new classes is seen by the principal of the school (Mr L. D. Leggat) as complementary to the school’s decision in April to limit its third-form intake next year. "It will allow us to resist the present tendency for secondary schools to grow too large,” said Mr Leggat. “We will be able to make the fullest possible use of our facilities and stilt retain the advantage of our new course structure for third and fourth forms,” he said.

From next year Hagley High School will begin one of the first attempts in New Zealand to break down the rigid system of secondary school courses. The, new scheme will abolish the traditional divisions of commercial, academic, technical, homecraft and vocational courses.

All new entrants will take a basic course in the first year covering all core subjects, alongside a large list of subject options.