PHYSICAL EDUCATION DISPLAY BEING ARRANGED BY LOCAL BRANCH OF SOCIETY

Evening Star, Issue 26153, 15 July 1947, Page 6

PHYSICAL EDUCATION DISPLAY BEING ARRANGED BY LOCAL BRANCH OF SOCIETY

Efforts are to he made to arrange a demonstration of the different types of physical training being carried out in Dunedin/schools and colleges. At a recent meeting of the Otago branch of the Physical Education -Society of New Zealand, at which Mrs W. Mayiiew presided, it was pointed'out that very. few. people understood the wide scope of the work which was carried out to-day. The ' formal types which , the average adult li'ad received at school had not heeii shown to be wrong, but iriore nioderji, methods of application under .the .conditions governing the work .in the. schools, and a. broader outlook on the airiis of physical education had produced a.type of work which recognised the soundness of training the body in concrete. activities which would be useful. After school age. This had been done without abandoning the main objects of the old type. Interest in the proposed demonstration was shown by the principals of the various „ institutions in Dunedin, and preparations are now, being made for a display to be given in the Town Hall on August 20.- ; The institutions taking part are Columba College, Dunedin Dance Group, Dunedin North Intermediate School, King’s High School, Macandrew . Intermediate ’ School, McGlashan College, Christian Brothers’;..High School, Otago Boys’ High School, Otago Girls’ High School, ■Training .College, Y.W.C.A., . and. a group of pupils: from the schopl at Henley.. The programme- ■ will consist of straight-out gymnastics, as far as the Town Hall, stage 'will /allow, general agilities, folk - dancing,, group. work under school leaders,’ a set of -D.’ Alberts, correctly performed, boxing, training, athletic training and. Rugby training. The Henley -pupils -will demonstrate tumbling agilities .far above 'the level of the average school. The society’s aim is to show the public the wide range of physical education and to afford an opportunity of seeing work that is actually carried on from day to day in the various institutions. ■■