TEACHERS IN CAMP PHYSICAL TRAINING INSTRUCTION

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 74, 28 March 1914, Page 6

TEACHERS IN CAMP PHYSICAL TRAINING INSTRUCTION

On Monday afternoon next about 100 I men teachers will begin a course of in- J struction in physical training at a camp j on the old Hutt Park racecourse. Mr. Royd Garlick, Director of Physical Education, will attend, and he will be assisted by several qualified instructors. The teachers who will attend are drawn from j the Manawatu, Hutt Valley, and city schools. The Wairarapa teachers will be taken later — in May — at Masterton. This has be^n found necessaiy, because there is not a sufficient available staff to attend to 550 teachers in one camp at one session. There have been a good many enquiries from tfeacheis in the Wellington district who will be at this camp, with regard to the facilities for attending the university courses which many of them are undertaking. Arrangements have been made for these men to leave camp in time to be present at the university college lectures. The Director of Physical Education regrets that they should have to do this, because it will necessarily weaken their course of training. All the teachers in the Wellington schools will take part, I but it is not necessary that they should Hve in camp. Those who do not live in camp will proceed to the Hutt every, morning by train, returning to town in the evening. As to the instruction at the camp, a start will "be made every morning befoie breakfast, but this will be mors for individual benefit than for general drill purposes. Breakfast is from 818 1 to 9 o'clock. Alternate practical and theoretical work continues from 9 a.m. till 4 or 5 p.m. The first day starts with general instruction, regarding the nature of the syllabus ; then theoretical work is begun. On the morning of the second day, a little practice is given in the adoption of positions, breathing course, etc. A certain time daily is devoted to swimming, life-saving, and rescue drill. The greater part of the second week is taken up with teachers' practice of instruction of squads in the new system. This is a most important part of the work. The women teachers, who are to undergo their instruction in various halls in the city, do not begin their work before 9 a.m., and, they do not do so much continuous hard practice as is provided for the men. Dancihg steps and games form an important feature of their work. The closing lessons every afternoon will be generally devoted to practice in organised games. The women teachers are to assemble at the Clyde-quay School on Monday at 10 a.m., and will then I proceed in parties to the Masonic Hall, J iioulcott-street ; Sydney-street Schoolroom, Alexandra Hall, Abel Smith-street ; asd tire New Century Hall, Kent-terrace. The couise of training will conclude on the 9th April.