Half-Days At School.
AUCKLAND SUGGESTION. hot weather exhausting. Children attending tho Auckland Education Board’s primary schools will resume next Tuesday, and tho question has been raised whether it would be advisable to extend tho holidays until the present hot spell is over. A medical practitioner states that in the case of the younger children full-time attendance at school at the present would be detrimental to their health. Hot weather coupled with humidity produced a condition that was very exhausting, and children soon became tired out when cooped up in a class-room and made to concentrate. During such climatic conditions as had been experienced for some time past children required much more rest than normally. As there was no chance of the holidays being extended, the doctor suggested that half-days be insti-., tuted until the weather became cooler. Some years ago the question was considered by the Education Board, and a decision was made to leave the granting of half-days to headmasters and school committees.
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Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19321, 31 January 1935, Page 3
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