WAITAKI GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24792, 17 December 1941, Page 4

WAITAKI GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL

Amid exceptionally beautiful surroundings, the Waltaki Girls' High School occupies an extensive range of picturesque stone buildings at the north end of Thames street, Oamaru, and this school opened in 1887 holds a particularly fine record of educational service. The accommodation includes spacious, airy, and well-lighted classrooms, modern, up-to-date science laboratories, domestic science kitchen, and laundry and arts and crafts departments. The school grounds arc extensive and very attractively laid out, being planned suitably for basketball, tennis, and organised games. There Is a large, well-equipped gymnasium for indoor drill and games, in close proximity to the school is a nark of five acres, which can at any time be used by the school. A particularly fine asset is the swimming' baths, which are 33 1-3' yards long and 25 yards wide. The school has a staff of fully-qualified specialists, including a physical training and health specialist with diploma of Bedford College (England) of physical training; a music mistress, who has full control of musical appreciation and singing; experienced teachers of arts, crafts, dressmaking, and needlework in all branches. The subjects which may be studied are English, French, Latin, arithmetic, mathematics, home science, chemistry, physiology, hygiene, botany, history, geography, penmanship, commercial correspondence and shorthand, book-keeping typewriting, office routine, needlework, cookery and other domestic subjects, art singing, and physical training. The Junior High School, as the name implies, is intermediate between the primary and the secondary school. It admits pupils who i have passed Standard IV. The aim is to discover as early as possible each pupil's aptitudes, so that she may enter upon the course of study most profitable for her. The Waitaki High School Board of Governors has established a boarding department to accommodate 60 boarders under its own control and the immediate personal supervision of the principal' (Miss J. B. Wilson).