Model High School Planned For Kaitaia

Northern Advocate, 17 March 1944, Page 5

Model High School Planned For Kaitaia

Plans for the proposed new secondary school building at Kaitaia were discussed when the Kaitaia School Committee met the Auckland Education Board’s foreman (Mr. Sanders.) The site at the top of Worth Street is now being prepared, and, with tenders about to be called, hopes are high for an early start on the construction.

The plan provides for six classrooms, a domestic training block that includes a model flat, a manual training block with facilities for wood and metal work, a laboratory, a library, adequate facilities for cloak rooms, and provision for heating. There is also a staff room, and an office for the headmaster. When funds permit the library will also be the “movies,” for it is planned to be used as a visual training room, where the modern methods of teaching by means of pictures will be possible. The building is of the fresh-air type, with windows opening to within two feet of the floor. An 18-foot strip of concrete will pave the frontage of the school and in front of that a large area of asphalt will provide room for games. With shelter trees, gardens and lawns, the building and its educational facilities will be something of which Kaitaia can justly be proud.