CAMP SCHOOL
FIRST IN NEW ZEALAND .SCHEME HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL CHILDREN AND PARENTS ENTHUSIASTIC [By Telegraph—Press Association] AUCKLAND. This Day. In response to*the suggestion of the Director of Education that teachers should take classes out of doors and arrange the curricula to suit the hot February weather, teachers at the Normal School at Epsom are conducting the first camp school in New Zealand in the Hunua Valley. Attending the camp are eighty senior boys and eight teachers, and the pupils are spending the first two weeks of the scholastic j'ear doing field work in nature study, geology, physical geography, applied arithmetic, and art. During the evenings the observational work done in the various field classes is analysed and consolidated by class discussions, lectures, and blackboard demonstrations.
The headmaster, Mr G. K. Hamilton, s,aid this morning that the scheme was proving highly successful and was arousing much enthusiasm among the children and parents.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 10 February 1938, Page 8
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151CAMP SCHOOL Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 10 February 1938, Page 8
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