Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SAMARA SCHOOL NOTES Since last September the upper Forms have been working on the Dal ton system. This plan gives us much more idea of systematising ourselves than the old method. We have assignments in every subject except Scripture, and also lessons in Languages, Mathematics and Literature each week. The assignments consist of the work we are expected to cover during the month. As each assignment is completed, it is taken to the Mistress who teaches the subject to be corrected and signed. Most of us like the system because it gives us the chance of looking up the subject for ourselves, and because we are free to plan the time we spend on each subject as we please. We are not allowed the next month ' s assignments until the previous month ' s work is complete. At the end of last term a conference was held to discuss the system and it was agreed that in the upper forms the plan was a success. With the exception of two girls, however, Form II are no longer working on the Dalton System. JULIA MacBRIEN, SYLVIA SMELLIE. The Library has started again, with the help of Miss King, and is now divided into two parts, Junior and Senior. We are grateful for several kind contributions of books. Several new books have been bought, as well as a bookcase. The Toy Symphony is again in progress, and the instruments are played thus: — Trumpet B. Fauquier. Quail J. Wilson. Drum L. Irvin. Rattle N. Keefer, Nightingale J- Southam. Triangle Mabel Dunlop. Cuckoo Mary Dunlop. 1