WEST END SCHOOL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 17, 17 December 1937, Page 8

WEST END SCHOOL.

The high standard reached in the artistic side of their curriculum by the pupils of the West End School wag demonstrated by the concert items given to a large audience of parents and friends in the school’s assembly hall last evening,by representatives of the different classes. A feature of many of the numbers was the children’s frocking. The fact that the children liad been taught to put personality into their work was especially evident in the individual pieces, which gained the approbation of those present. That rich old air which is always a, source of pleasure, “The Londonderry Air,” was interpreted by the choir with feeling, no Jess popular being a recitation by Jim Lockyer, entitled “The Highwayman.” The chairman of the School Committee (Mr G. Tremaine) said he did not always have the opportunity of meeting the parents at the functions held by the school. The concert, however, was an exception for everyone had managed to attend. He mentioned that Mr F. C. Campbell, who is retiring from the headmastership of Russell Street School, and who was once the first assistant at the school, was in the audience, as was Mr Child who, in spite of his 70-odd years, was an active participant in all the functions arranged by the school. Mr Tremaine extended the thanks of the committee to Mr Jackson and his staff for having staged the concert. The programme presented was as follows:—Standards 2 and 3: Junior choir, “The Evening Star.” Cradle Song, “Robin Hood’s AVedding” ; Phyllis Elsmore (recitation), “Moth Fairies” ; Primers (playette), “Mother Hubbard and, 80-Peep on May Day”; school, “Pageant”; Murray 'Wak'elin and Harold Fry (vocal), “The ToyMaker’s Dream”; Mary Uyre (recitation), “The Fairies Have Never a Penny to Spend !” Standard 1 (playette), “The Fairy and the Doll”; Ngaire Penfold (recitation), “The Fairies Live in Hyde Park”; Standard 2 (vocal), “Gallop Away,” “Butterfly”; Standard 1 (playette), “Mother Goose’s Health Play”;-* OO Williamson (recitation), . A Roy s Message”: Standard 1 (vocal), Soldier 1 Soldier!” Lorraine Baldwin and Dot McLean. Irish jig; Standards 2 and 3 (junior choir), “Tender Mooddove,” “All Through the Night,” ‘ The First Nowell” ; _ Standard 4, Dutch dance; Joe Williamson (vocal). Stay in Your Own Bookyarcl” ; Standard o (plavette), “Toad’s Escape’ 1 ; Sta.ndard 4, tap dance; Jim Lockver (recitation). “The Highwayman”; Sta-n dard 6, Jubilee drill; Standard 4 (vocal), “The Londonderry Air” ; J. and B. Waller. dance duo; Gladys Sievert (vocal), “Someone to Care For”; Standards 5 and 6 (choir), “0. Who Will O’er the Downs,” “O, Hush Thee,” “Come Follow Me,” “Rainbow on the River.”-

The accompanistes were Mrs F. Sievert and Misses Cleary. M. R. Bird and R. Bailev. Those conducting the choirs were Messrs K. B. Dawkins and S Rosser.