AT WORK.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 98, 7 December 1928, Page 2

AT WORK.

INSPECTION BY PARENTS.

INTERESTING OPE7IIATXONS. Yesterday was. “parents’ day’'’ at the Stratford Technical High School, parents being invited to inspect the school during the afternoon, while pupils were engaged in their usual operations.

It. was an innovation and proved] to be .thoroughly useful. Quite a large number of parents attended and were shown round the class-rooms by the Principal (Mr., A. H. It. Amess) and some of the senior pupils. Parents were permitted also to go round the class-rooms at will and freely availed themse.lves of the permission, it being evident that great interest was) being taken in the work being done. The success of the day will probably result in it being made an annual fixture. A tour of the rooms was full of interest and in each there wag a class of busy workers. EXPERIMENTS. In fhe dairy chemistry and) science room a number of experiments} each of a different nature, were in progress, and the same applied fo the chemistry experiment (room.'

A particularly busy place was the engineering and metal shed, where there is provision fpr twenty-four boys to work at a time. There i s a forge and a turning-lathe, and during the afternoon the boys were b us y in* the fabrication of various metal articles- One was engaged on a neat article in the shape of a rotating holder for a garden line, the workmanship being quite up to professional standard, and the sain,© might be said of other articles which were in the process of manufacture. Work in the room is dovetailed in with the instruction in agriculture, so that boys! going on the land will be able to carry out minor repairs to machinery. All hoys taking practical courses take lessons in this room in turns.

The musio-room is a small soundproof apartment, where tuition is given .in pianoforte-playing. This tuition is given in school hours, but arrangements are made that the pupil shall not miss too much of the ordinary school work, one lesson being given during the French lesson, the next during the arithmetic lesson and so on., GIRLS’ HANO-WORK. '

lii the home science room a large number of interesting operations were in progress, a fair number of girls* being engaged on needlework of various sorts. An interesting exhibit was a number of small garments from the material from larger garments, tho design of this work being to teach economy in the nso of material. At other desks girls were busy making articles of raffia, on cane and other materials, some very wellfinished pieces of work being on exhibition. Great proficiency was also shown in design work on leather, purses, card-cases, etc., being in process of manufacture. In the commercial room the. click of numerous typewriters testified to familiarityj of the 'machine, and there were on exhibition a number of neatly executed type-writing samples and statements of accounts. Earlier in the afternoon this class had undergone a shorthand speed test. Altogether the inspection was interesting and instructive, and the indications are that in future years increasing numbers of parents will avail them selves of the opportunity of seeing tho Technical High School zmpils at work.