MOVING PICTURED FOR SCHOOLS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3105, 17 September 1913, Page 41

MOVING PICTURED FOR SCHOOLS.

EXPERIMENT IN CHRISTCHURCH (From Odh Own Correspondent.)

CHRISTCHURCH, September 9. The Education Board has decided to make a trial of moving pictures as an aid to primary school education. At the last meeting of the board the committee reported that the chief inspector submitted a report on the matter of the proposed use of the kinematograph for school purposes. He pointed out that the inspectors fully recognised that suitable moving pictures would be of valuable assistance in geography, history, Naturestudy, and general knowledge, but expressed regret that the expenditure seemed beyond what could be recommended at present for the town and suburban schools. Messrs Hayward had offered to give a programme of pictures of an educational character, and in order to test the success of their films and to gauge the educational effect the chief inspector recommended that arrangements should be made for two matinee performances at 3.30 on a Friday afternoon, to be onen free to all children in the fifth and sixth standards, and the programme to be arranged by a committee of headmasters in conjunction with Messrs Haywards’ agents. It was further recommended that there should be an interval of some weeks between the performances to enable the teachers to deal with the subjects shown. It was .agreed to give effect to the inepector’s recommendations except that the committee were of opinion that a charge of Id per child, being half the actual cost, should be made for admission.