EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTS

Evening Star, Issue 22596, 13 March 1937, Page 3

EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTS

HOUSE INSTRUCTION FOR PUPILS SUPPLEMENTARY SERVICE ARRANGED 'Although certain, of the schools in Otago, Canterbury, and Southland remain closed owing to precautions in regard to the infantile epidemic, the pupils are to be given the opportunity of home instruction by the National Broadcasting Service. Arrangements have been made for special educational broadcasts every morning to meet the situation, and two stations are to participate in turn in the lesson broadcasts, which will be supplementary to the weekly afternoon educational broadcasts. The subjects to.be embraced will be geography, history, literature, health, music, current events, composition, Nature study, drawing, and others, and it is felt that the majority of children who are prevented from returning to their different schools will derive great benefit from the series of lessons, -by listening to each of the sessions given from both 4YA and 3YA. . ■ The special broadcasts will occupy two hours daily on Mondays to Fridays (inclusive), and have been so arranged that only half an hour of each morning’s normal broadcasting time will be used by each station. The sessions will commence on Tuesday of next week, the first hour being between 9 and 10 o'clock, the period when both stations are normally silent. The broadcasts will be divided between the stations as follows: —3YA, 9 to 9.30 a.m.; 4YA, 9.30 to 10; 3YA, 10.30 till 11; 4YA, 11 to 11.30. Subjects to be dealt with, locally include geography, composition, Nature study, and drawing, while the Christchurch station will be responsible for history, literature, health, music, and current events instruction.