WEST END SCHOOL

Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1930, Page 7

WEST END SCHOOL

CONCERT AND WORK EXHIBITION.

The gymriasium at the West End school, Nfew Plymouth, was crowded to its capacity yesterday afternoon• when parihts / the. edncCrt giveiL' by the pupilfi .to mark the end of the-school ■ . were-ffibstTy-'based'pn ’thc work' Gained. but during the year. Thus fjhe pupils of standard Vi, in costume, did the trial scene. from the “Merchant of Venibb” and . ’Standards IV and V. gave several part-songs under the leadership of jfhe"headmaster (Mr. J." Shimmin).- One, .item,: a trio, .'. Was joined in by Standard '■ VI. as ■ well. Mr. Shimmin said' .’.the' <singing. was generally, very good, especially the why. in which the difficulties of. the trio had been accomplished. In this connection he .paid a tribute •to the work . of Misss. Wooldridge, who had special ability in training the choruses. . Othbr -nufnbers on programme wetb.; Pianoforte trio . (Elaine Carter, Dorothy BroWn-,and Jean Martin),' humorbus’ recitation (Jfean Scott), class songs and,rhythmic dancing (the/primers), sketch and song, Darby and Joan (Megan John and. Margaret Shepherd), Ten: 'Little Nigger Boys (boy's of :Std. I.), 'sailor’s hornpipe '(Theo ! ;and Allison McCulloch), musical monologue (Beryl Cornwall, accompanied by Mrs. F. Cornwall), pianoforte solo ; (Gilbert Cornwall), solo dance (Vola Watson), the Murray Song (Alona Thomson);- poi dance (Minola Simeon and girlb), Irish jig' (Margaret Struthers), instrumefital trio- (MrS. A. B; Mdcdbnald piano, Ledley Macdonald violin, arid Peg. Macdonald ’cello). ... ■ An exhibition of school work was arranged on the walls of the clissropihs. Commenting on the work shown, Mr. Shimmin referred particularly to the drawings. Some of them were outstanding, he said. He had not seen any other school work as good. The teachers 'deserved every credit The exhibition will be again open this afternoon for inspection by adults, s