PHYSICAL INSTRUCTION

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 99, 26 April 1917, Page 7

PHYSICAL INSTRUCTION

AND CORRECTIVE CLASSF^

In the annual report of the Inspectors of Schools, presented to the Wellington Education Board, reference is made to physical instruction and corrective classes. The report states :— " Marked progress is being made in the physical training now carried out in aJI our schools. The report of the physical instructors show that, in general, the work done is of a satisfactory diaracter., The instructors, however, call attention to a few defects hero and there, such as want of attention to the ' fundamental position' when a class is under instruction, and the failure in. some cases to use the tables co as to ' ensure a gradual but steady and continuous progression in the teaching of physical exercises throughout the whole school lift.' ■" Their reports, in general, confirm our report of last year, which we need not repeat. A few of the teachers have been content with giving the exercises once or twice a week, but their attention has been called to the fact that these exercises to be rendered valuable must J he given daily. CORRECTIVE CLASSES. " Corrective classes ha.ye been. established by the Medical Inspector in a few schools in the Wairarapa, and in. about twenty-six schools in and around the city of Wellington. In conjunction. with tho physical instructors, special tables of exercises have been drawn, and in each school teachers have been selected j to 'carry out these exercises for a short 1 period twice a day. It is yet too soon to make a definite report on the result, ! but the medical inspector assures us ' that although in operation for a< short time, there is already sufficient evidence- , to justify the establishment of guch , classes."