LESSONS BY POST
CHILDREN IN ORKNEYS [from our own cohhuspondknt] LONDON. Feb. 13 Children in the Orkney Islands, in the far north of Scotland, are the first in Britain to get their lessons by post instead of going to school. They aro also the first to receivo with their lessons copies of a circular on "How the War is Going." The circular is designed to keep the children abreast of the war's developments and is issued once a week. It gives a lengthy review of the war at home, at sea and abroad' during the previous seven days. Orkney education authority planned the lessons-by-post scheme rather than bear the cost of providing air-raid shelters in the scattered island schools. Four schools with nearly 150 children aged up to 14 are affected. The week's lessons are prepared at a central office at Kirkwall for each school. They are sent to teachers of the schools concerned, who issue them once a week and receive exercises for correction.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23599, 7 March 1940, Page 5
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