THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 1, 1989
News Snack Bar
Roedeam School, Brighton, most famons of all girls' schools in
·England, if not the world, is leading the entire country in A.R.P. It is probably the first, school to complete its A.R.P. organisation and this has been done with such thoroughness and effect that it is possible to evacuate the pupils and entire staff, in all nearly 500, to the trenches and dug-outs in seven minutes. There is over 1,000 feet of trenches, well built underground shelters complete with main wa-- ter supply, electric lighting and drainage. There are also first-aid posts, pegs for clothes and gas masks and shelves where girls can keep books and games. Photo shows girls of Roedean School,' in their picturesque cloaks, entering the underground trench-shelters.
PRESENTED FROM COURT
From London police courts: Man at Highgate; I heard him say, "I was expecting a fight. I left my bedroom door open. I al ways leave it open when I expect a fight."
"Woman at Twickenham: When he came near me I screamed for all I was worth.
It was a very quiet scream.
Witness at Willesden: It would. appear that this man's furniture. is settled upon his mother-in-law. She seems to have a big say in his life. .!
NEW WOOL' COMES FROM SEAWEED
Synthetic wool from seaweed is the latest process devised in Ja- pan's fight to
SWOPPING CAMERAS FOR
COAL, AND RADIOS FOR ALE
Paris has adopted the idea of a salon where you swop instead of buy.
HILDREN
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TO BE YOUR EQUALS
Children between eleven and sixteen will be treated as equals by their teachers in the schools of the future.
In Grammar Schools they will learn English and another language for two years and then be allowed to follow their tastes especially the girls.
These are the conditions en- visaged by the Consultative Com- mittee on Secretary Education which has just issued the resulta.. of its five-year inquiry into child problems.
Too much emphasis on form and house superiority is classed as a dangerous thing likely to . de- generate into, unwarranted satisfaction?"
self-
Typewriting and shorthand are as important as Latin, the report- indicates. And, the experts declare, the School Certificate examination and the preparation for it, are dan- gerous to the healthy growth in mind and body of a large number, of pupils.
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The five years between eleven The exhibition rooms look like a and sixteen is what the Committee small edition of London's Caledon- calls the “awkward age." They say ian Market. Old
typewriters, that at this stage boys and girls cameras and wireless sets are ex- develop pride and humility, and hibited on tables, with sewing ma- parents cannot expect the same chines, lamps and gramophones degree of blind obedience or frank mingled among them. In short, confidence that they have had be- anyone who has anything: to swop fore. is free to exhibit at the Salon of Exchanges.
There's cheering news for both parents and children in the Com- mittee's report '. that the core of education for chil- for they say dren under sixteen years should
English subjects.
HONOUR FOR THE QUEEN'S FATHER
The arms of the Earl of Strath- more, the Queen's father, are to. be augmented by command of the King-a "special mark of Royal favour."
The present bearings will be. -augmented by the addition of “an escutcheon emblazoned with an Imperial crown and a rose, such as his Majesty bore for a badge while Duke of York, and a tres- sure circon-fleurs-de-lis› as borne on the Royal arms”,
The old escutcheon shows Strathmore's descent fro tressure elin recognition of Robert II of Scotland. arms will not be aff change in bér family arti
POPE SPEAKS OF “DEAR ENGLAND
Only a few minutes after doors were opened yesterday, a cameras and a pair of skis were exchanged for sacks of coal and an overcoat. be a thorough study of English and newly consecrated priests of the
Painters have had some difficult times trying to convince other ex- hibitors that their works are worth a sack of conl, or a cask of ale, but everyone enters into the haggling with good will
overcome war-time PRESIDENING PORTRAIT
shortage of raw materials.
Its inventor is Tadayuki Goda of the Toho Artificial Fibre Com
BANNED
England” when he received six The Fope spoke of "that dear
English College in Rome, He re- They want school studies to ferred to "that England to which be brought into closer contact with so many pastoral thoughts" con- the practical affairs of life and the tinually bind us, that dear England- inclusion of a "careers master" on which we are pleased to greet. the staffs of large schools.
"The School Certificate examina-
tion dominates the curriculum - un- U.S. AIR LINERS FOR BRITAIN duly. It should follow the curri- culum, not determine it," is another
British Airways have order two
The Nazi-controlled Memel pany. Now a holding company is Directory has decided to order the being formed with a capital of removal of portraits of President. "We believe that homework plays, London and the Continent, $290,000 to manufacture the pro- Smetons of Lithuania and the a necessary part in the education duct.
Lithuanian arms from German of the adolescent .. but it is the
point. On the vexed question of more Lockheed Aircraft Corpora- homework:
tion aeroplanes for services between
A factory, being built in north schools. The reason-given for this business of the school to see that eastern Japan, will turn out five decision is "to avoid unpleasant what is asked is not unreasonable. tons of seaweed wool a day.
The cost of manufacturing the new product will, it is claimed, be less than that for making synthe- tic wool out of staple fibre. Sea weed can be collected cheaply in Japan and is în inexhaustible quan- tities..
·ROMANCE
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Engagement is an- nounced of MISB Doreen Butler Hen- derson, younger daughter of the Hon. Eric and Mrs. Butler Henderson, of Fac combe Manor, Andover (Hants), to Mr. John Gordon Wordsworth, elder son of the Rev. C. W. and Birs. Wordsworth, of the Rectory, Code: denham, Ipswich. An uncle of Lord Faringdon, the Hon. Eric Hender son was High Sheriff of Nortlánts in 1929.
COUNTESS HURT IN BUNT FALL
The Countess of Rosebury was taken to the Royal Bucks Hospital at Aylesbury suffering from a frac- tured foot received, in a fall while she was riding, with the Pytchley. Her horse rolled on her.
Just before examinations, conscien- tious pupils, especially girls may spend the whole evening until a late hour over books,
"The bow which is bent always loses its spring.
"We think that no homework should be set junior forms in which the majority of pupils are under eleven; that less should be required of the younger forms than of the older; and that the quota set for the week-end should not exceed that set on the other days of the week, so that the children may then have a free evening to shares. fully in the family life.
HIS EXCELLENCY LIVES IN HUT
The Governor of Molt, northern colony on the east coast of Green- land, and his family, will have to live in a snow-hut for the remain- der of the winter, as his house st Scoresby Sound bas, been burned down. In the summon the Governor. will move
Ice maker, it Impossible for buildin end of t
the