Hugh John Macdonald School - Searchlight Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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11 PARENTS NIGHT By Ger t rude Manners, Sandra Dolberg, and Sonia Zyla As school opened two weeks later this year. Parents’ Night was postponed until March 9. The purpose of Parents’ Night was to acquaint the teachers with the parents, and to give the parents an idea of what their children were doing in school. From 7.15 to 8,30 p,m, the parents visited in the classrooms. In the Sewing Room, blouses, skirts and aprons, made by pupils in grades seven and eight were on display. Notebooks were also displayed in some classrooms so that the parents could see the progress being made in various subjects. Most teachers said that they enjoyed this opportunity of speaking to the parents when the pupils were not present. At 8,30 p,m, the programme started in the auditorium. The theme of the panel discussion was, The School and Your Child , This panel discussion was designed to focus attention upon problems of vital interest to parents and teachers alike. Miss Truesdale, who was chairman, introduced all the teachers who took part in the discussion, and spoke of the aims of the teachers and of what the school was endeavoring to do for the student. Miss Hughes, speaking about the Library,s aid that its function was to develop in the children the love for art, music and good literature. Miss Crookshanks said that English was essential to the development of good, lear speech habits, in the formation of good reading habits and in the training of pupils to express thoughts clearly both orally and in writing. Mr, Shewfelt said that Science was taught because it gave the children aq opportunity to ask why things were the way they were, Mr, Cooke gave an interesting talk on Soeial Studies, giving the parents some idea of the kind of work the students have done and are doing, Mr, MCKillop said that technical work such as metalwork and woodwork was essential to life. It gave the boy the satisfaction of seeing the work that he him elf had produced. Since Mr, Patterson was unavoidably absent, Mr, McWilliams then spoke on The Role ff the Parent in the School , He explained that the parents could help by reducing the number of absentees and lates to the very minimum. Then a film called, The Birth of the Soil was shown to let the parents see what sort of films are shown during Visual Edufation periods. We would like to thank the teachers for all that they did, to make the evening interesting and helpful, TEACHER: Ants are the busiest ineeots we know of, L0HNE: Then how do they always have time to go to picnics? ANITA: Can you keep a secret? ARLENE: lean, but it ' s just my luck to tell things to girls who can ' t. It was raining cats and dogs, and there were poodles in the road. Degrees of comparison of bad : bad, very sick, dead.