SPECIAL CLASSES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 254, 24 September 1935, Page 8

SPECIAL CLASSES.

COLLEGE STREET SCHOOL. SUCCESS OF TRAINING. Established eight years ago at the College Street School, a special class for backward children is functioning very effectively under the supervision of Miss H. H. Wapp, who has had control of this group.since its inception. The size of the class, the only one of its kind in Palmerston North, varies from 15 to 20 pupils, and on account of the success achieved locally with this type of instruction the Wanganui Education Board is contemplating the establishment of a similar class at Wanganui. Exceptional ability lias been shown by Miss Wapp in instructing her young charges, and they have responded to her encouragement, sympathy, kindliness and the special training given them to such an extent that two girls have entered a secondary school department. Instead of being permitted to develop an inferiority complex in the ordinary class, the pupils have had their confidence re-established. Much of their time is spent in handiwork, for which some have shown a marked adaptability, but they are taught the usual academic subjects, also music and euriiytliyroics, and tlieir standard of speech is excellent.