Education By Radio Broadcasts For Children Arranged

Wanganui Chronicle, 27 January 1948, Page 4

Education By Radio Broadcasts For Children Arranged

(P.A.) Wellington, Jan. 26 The broadcasting service was anxious to play ; ts part in the education of school children during the closing of the schools owing to the poliomyelitis precautions, said the Minister of Broadcasting, Mr. Jones, today. Since the opening of the schools is to be postponed from next Monday until such a date as will be decided upon by the Ministers of Health and Education, the Education Department has planned a system of correspondence courses and the Broadcasting Department will present a special series of school broadcasts. Throughout the holiday, officers of the service have been in collaboration with teachers, preparing broadcasts which will continue till the schools reopen. The following broadcasts have been arranged and it is hoped that parents will encourage their children to take full advantage of them: Every week day, from 9.30 to 10 a.m. for infants and junior standards. From 11 a.m. to 11.15 for standards 3 and 4. From 11.15 to 11.30, for forms 1 and 2. From 1.30 to 1.50 p.m., music and literature programmes for forms 1 to 4. This schedule of broadcasts starts from next Monday.