SCHOOL BOOKS
AND THE NEW SYLLABUS. Seen hy a ‘‘Post” representative in reference to the new text hooks required in connection, with the revised syllabus recently instituted in primary schools, Mr. L. ,). Furrie, headmaster of the Stratford school, said the hooks needed for the standards should not cost more than (3s to< Bs. The prices at which some of the hooks to bo sold had not yet been announced, hut he felt sure the maximum cost for hooks for any one pupil would not exceed Bs. (u the primmtr room there was no dlifereuce in the hooks, though teachers had two new books included in the list from which they might select. Most of the hooks wer e supplied free by“the education Board, and all the children would have to procure would he the. Live readers, priced from 3d to 7d, and Tiny Tots Primmer, the highest price of which is Is. At the same time, these hooks may not he selected hy the teacher, Perhaps the school would continue, to use the Live ami BeacuiTTeaders. The new te x t hooks required in the Stan, dards were coUiipos.itiou, arithmetic, history and geography. The highest price of the arithmetic was Is 3d, and perhaps the others .would he cheaper than last year.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 39, 21 February 1929, Page 7
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