HUTT VALLEY NEWS
CHILTON "AT HOME"
(From "The Post's" Representative.)
"Display Day" at Chilton St. James School, Lower Hutt, on Saturday, Was attended by over three hundred parents, "old girls," and friends of the school, and was specially arranged to give visitors a leisurely afternoon in which to view the surroundings and the varied activities of school life before the bustle and excitement of break-up day. Since this latter occasion, has, for reasons of space, to be limited to parents of present pupils and, as' an evening function, cannot be attended by the kindergarten and junior classes, "display day" affords ex-pupils an opportunity of' meeting and discussing the changes inevitable in school life while it is marked for the very young people by a- special break-up party exclusively their own: ;Visitors were invited to watch the girls singing and dancing on the front lawn and, after tea,,to inspect everything in which they were interested. An excellent display of needlework, dressmaking, basketwork, and art-was on exhibition in various classrooms, and in the library,, while the kindergarten' was represented with a most interesting display of creative art based on Biblical themes. The specimens of art by the senior pupils on view in the library were of a particularly high standard and attracted much admiring comment. The guests were received by the principal of the. school, Miss Geraldine Fitzgerald, who founded Chilton St. James over twenty years ago and who is relinquishing her post at the end of the present term. From the ■ first to the last moment of the afternoon Miss Fitzgerald was the centre of a group of old girls and parents of past and present pupils, all of whom had pleasant memories to recall and good wishes to extend for Miss Fitzgerald's happiness in her retirement. The concluding item for the afternoon was a Polish dance, in costume, which was to have been danced outside in a natural setting of lawn and trees, but which, owing to the rain, had to be performed in the assembly hall. .-.''. '. • |
HUTT VALLEY NEWS
Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1939, Page 14
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