A NORWEGIAN SCHOOL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18940, 10 December 1929, Page 12

A NORWEGIAN SCHOOL.

Miss Dagny Erickson, who recently sjpent a couple of months in Norway, gives the following account of a fine modern school in a suburb of Oslo: “ It has a roll number of 1500, but no class has more than thirty pupils There are special rooms for sewing, geography, history, literature, modelling, drawing, sciences, cooking, laundry, nursing, mothercraft, housecraft, etc. All the rooms are pastelled and enamelled in varying colours, and there are alcoves in the corridors , with lounges, where visitors may wait. Two large rooms with kitchenette attached are for the teachers’ use, and there are also a swimming pool, bathrooms (for every child a compulsory hot bath weekly); a resident dentist, nurses and doctor, with appropriate rooms for each; two large gymnasia with all kinds of apparatus and gymnastic shoes supplied free, as also are the bathing suits, which are sterilised after every usage. There is a large dining-hall, too, where free, hot meals are supplied, the food being sent in from a central communal kitchen that supplies all the schools, libraries and theatres. The noiseless efficiency and impressive cleanliness of every square inch of it are remarkable To crown all, it has a woman director.”