THE HIGH SCHOOL.

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 729, 11 March 1926, Page 5

THE HIGH SCHOOL.

ITS SCHOLASTIC ACHIEYEA LENTS.

In the course of bis monthly report to the meeting of the Board ol AI anagers controlling the Feilding Agricultural High School last night, ihe Director, Mr L. J. Wild, in .e----viewing the school from a scholastic viewpoint, stated • The late opening of .schools in 1925 compelled us to leave very much the wider fields of educational activity for the narrower one of concentrated examination courses of study. One feels, therefore, that it was an unsatisfactory year, especially among lower forms. Thanks to the training older pupils had had in independent Study, the correspondence courses given in th<' early months proved very successful and pupils had no difficulty in satisfying the various external examiners. In the Public Service ■ nlranee examination ten of the eleven candidates passed ; altogether do pupils were granted senior free places, four being rejected, two of them on technical grounds; 2d pupils fulfilled tlie requirements for lower leaving certificates. In the matriculation examination ten out of eleven candidates obtained lull or partial passes and two obtained partial passes in accou ntn nev prel i m inn ry ex a m inn tion. One candidate, R. Humphrey, gained a junior national scholarship, first equal in the Wanganui to 'Palmerston North district. The Board congratulated Air Wild and bis staff on the work' accomplished last year and also on the creditable results achieved by students silting for the various examinations in November and December last.