A Day At College

Things aren't what they used to be. An old saying, but it applies to many facets of modern living. It certainly applies to education. Such subjects as readin', 'ritin and 'rithmetic still have their places in the curriculum of a modern High School, but today such subjects as biology, home science, physics and engineering are considered just as important. Each is designed to fit a pupil for the world.

To give the public, but especially the older generation, an insight into the workings of a High School, 1963 style, we took our cameras into Waimea College where the principal, Dr F. E. Gallas, and his staff and pupils, cooperated fully with us in the photographic story we present over the next eight pages. Just a few short facts about the College. It was established in 1957 with a roll of 189 third form pupils. Today the roll exceeds 1100 and the teaching staff numbers 50. In six years, also, it has established an excellent academic record. The first year in which the College had a Form 6A, one of its pupils topped New Zealand in the University Junior Scholarship and the next year another pupil was the winner of the top scholarship. The College is set in an educational reserve, which also includes the Waimea Intermediate School and the Henley Primary School, of 55 acres and at present its board of governors is investigating the need for a boarding school at the College.

The picture on this page is an aerial of the College taken recently, and at right is Dr Gallas.

The school day commences with assembly in a spacious assembly hall, from the stage of which the staff looks down over a sea of faces

The school prefects: Graham Muir, Joyce Anderson, Pat Kelly, Glynis Jennings, Ken Wells, Catherine McKenzie, Russell Black, Sue Bailey, (head girl), John Henderson (head boy), Helen Robinson, Alistair McCarthy, Elizabeth Bradey, Grant Sinclair, Elizabeth Bailey, John Marshall, Peggy Pattison, Richard Rendle, Margaret Ming, Owen Jennings, Judith Meikle.

Geography class for fifth formers, with Mr J. Purnell demonstrating on a globe to Gary Gardiner, Ron Waller, Colleen Bradley and Heather Holdaway.

In the biology lab, Elizabeth Bradey, of Upper Sixth, studies the composition of a carrot.

Several sixth formers are studying physics under Mr J. E. Duffy, of California, who is visiting the College. In this pic, Pat Kelly, Alistair McCarthy, Grant Sinclair and Ken Wells are measuring light rays through a ripple tank.

The "stinks" or chemistry room, with a Form 6B class, and here Neil Parkinson and Donald Irvine get some satisfying results while Cheryl Cliff and Thea Bier do a qualitative analysis using senior micro equipment.

Architectural drawing is being done here by Brian Shaw under the tuition of Mr H. W. Hawke

Welding, as carried out here by John Mansell, is but one of the trades being taught

John Inwood and Graeme Vallance take their turn on a metal lathe in the machine room

Under the eye of engineering instructor, Mr H. M. Ameye, Anthony Vandersar and Mark Pullen carry out electric-plating.

The bright and airy woodworking shop was filled with third form boys who were busy with their pet projects

Girls working on a battery of sowing machines in the home science block.

Miss C. Milnes, one of two home science mistresses, gives Anne Denson, Marilyn Scott and Linda Johnston some advice

Phys. ed. is part of school life, and here Waverley Walker gets a hand from Mrs Maureen Horlor.

Mr B. S. Buckton, boys phys. ed. instructor, shows a group just how a horse should be vaulted

In a beautifully-equipped kitchen, complete with model flat, the girls are taught the culinary arts. They cook their own food and they eat it. Here, around the stove, are Jocelyn De Malmanche, Adrienne Black, Madeline Orr, Lorraine Jary, Beryl Bensemann and Heather Sutton, getting some tips on how to fry fish from home science mistress, Miss Colleen Keenan (right).