INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLS.

Wairarapa Age, 24 December 1932, Page 7

INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLS.

NEW REGULATIONS FRAMED. OUTLINE OF SYLLABUS. WELLINGTON, December 23. Regulations setting up intermediate schools and departments and replacing those at present in force relating to junior high schools, are published in last night’s “Gazette.” The regulations stipulate that when an intermediate school or department has bdbn established the Minister of Education may direct an education board to limit the instruction given in any public school he may select to the work prescribed for classes not higher than Standard IV or not higher than Form I, as he may decide, and may require the pupils of the higher class or classes in such schools to attend an intermediate school or department. In order to qualify for admission to an intermediate school or department, a pupil must fulfil the requirements for a certificate of school attainment of Standard IV. or some higher standard. Provision is made for special cases. The period during which a pupil may receive instruction in an intermediate school or department shall, in general, be two years. On March lin each year, or as soon after that date as possible, the director shall grade intermediate schools and intermediate departments, but unless he is satisfied that an increased attendance qualifying a school or department for a higher grade is likely to be permanent, he may direct that the grade of the school or department shall be raised only provisionally, and subsequently, if the increased attendance fs not maintained, he may place it in the grade in which it was classified previously, or in some other grade according to its roll number. From February 1 next, the junior high school departments attached to such schools as Rongotai College shall be known as intermediate departments. All pupils in an intermediate schooi or intermediate department shall for approximately seventeen hours per week receive instruction in English, arithmetic, history, and civics, geography, elementary science, drawing, singing, and physical education, and the instruction shall follow on broad lines the prescriptions for Forms I and II in the Syllabus of Instruction for public schools. During the remaining portion of the school work all pupils are to receive manual or home arts instruction for not less than one and a half hours weekly, and also a supplementary course of instruction chosen from the academic, commercial, agricultural, art, or manual training courses. Every pupil on leaving an intermediate school to enter a second- , ary, technical, or combined school ..and cverv pupil who finally leaves an inter-

mediate school or department will receive from the principal or head teacher on a form provided for the purpose a report on his progress at school. — (P.A.) ___