MARTON DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11616, 15 August 1918, Page 4

MARTON DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL.

EXHIBITION OF SCHOOL WORK

Ou Friday evening an exhibition of school work will beTgiven 111 the Marton Technical School. The exhibits promise to he about the most interesting cf the kind ever shown in Marton, and show what work the children of the public school are doing so far as Hho work can bo shown. The following are [some of the things exhibited: — Infants’ Work —Various drawings, writings, and contrivances of the children during their first stages at the school. To many this work, which is rarely exhibited, will possess as much interest as the more advanced and skilful work of the elders. The quaintness of the little mites in their first endeavours Ims a charm of its own. A small exhibition will also be shown of Montessori apparatus. The Monteesori system, though at present little known here, carried out on the smallest scale, has v awakened a new era in the evolution of education, and is exercising the minds of all prominent educationalists, opening up as it does new and vast possiDili >ies.

Following the infant work is the work of the various standards, and not only their work but interesting games that accompany modern teaching, and tend to turn the school not into the prison cf early times bat iato the place of joy and life which are now found to he proper attributes of the young. Exhibits will also be shown that hura taken prizes in various snows. A new feature also will he a demonstration of reading of the pupils of Standard VI. This work bus been very favourably commented upon by visiting inspectors as a distinctive feature of the school, and will be found to consist of more tbHii the saying of words. Antnmetic exercises, essays, writings, drawings, mappings, cartoon work, plaaticene work and other interes'iiig efforts on the part of pupils are to be put up for inspection.

Of the secondary department’s work, various science experiments performed by the scholars are to he shown. The whole science room is to be littered with the contrivances ot the pupils, many being of original designs. A special feature is A. E. Davenjjort’s electrical apparatus, the whole being this pupil’s own making from bed knobs and various other utensils. AIJ, practically, of the considerable amount of apparatus required for the matriculation examination has been made by the pupils unaided efforts, and to show now effective has been the result this boy was first in electricity in New Zealand at the matriculation examination, for which about 2000 candidates sat.

Omer features are pencil drawings in shade by N. Gamman and others. Colour work by Y. Savage aud others: mapping by P.. Richardson and others; geometrical|dratwing by B. Henderson and others. Science note books, weather charts and a variety of further interesting exhibits.

Exhibits from the Technical School pupils of woodwork, gates, ladders, bookcases, chairs, stands, tables, cupboards; of art needlework and of plumbing are for inspection. Recitations by some of the pupils, including Gladys Cbrnman, will be given during the evening. Parents and the public generally' are cordially invited to be present. We feel sure that notning of much mere interest could be shown, and that not a little surprise will be experienced by' onlookers at the work done in their midst, and perhaps a little more contenteduess that Marton is not asleep—at anv rate as far as the education of the young is concerned. The whole show is entirely free re all with the one, request that ail hook? and material will be carefully handled, where handling is necessary, as disappointment would be caused to (he scholar? who t-.kn pride in their ■work, and the bock? are still in use.