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FORM 2J
We, the thirty-seven pupils of Form 2J, work for the honour of
House, Form and School. We unfortunately have manual training and
home science on a Friday afternoon, and so cannot try for positions in
school sport teams. However, we do well in other aspects.
Our Form captains are Rodney Elmes and Delmay Hinckley, and
our teacher is Miss Lenihan. We were represented in the swimming
championships by Walter Burrows and Delmay Hinckley. Our girl
Form captain won the school championship in swimming in her age
group.
Delmay Hinckley, Rodney Elmes and Barry Hambrook excel in
maths., Kay Burnett, Carol Bryning, Evol Brown and Dianne Innes
do well in English, while Rodney Elmes also does well in social studies.
Pam Paterson, Jane Curry, Kay Burnett, Carol Bryning, Cheryle
Loynes, Geraldine Cunneen, Valerie Lawrence and Delmay Hinckley are
our sporting enthusiasts among the girls. Our boys take sport almost
as seriously. John Strophair, Ron Farquharson, John Love, Noel Peach
and Ernie Buckley being the most keen.
Pam Paterson was, last year, top of Form 1 in domestic science,
and last examination worked hard to obtain the very worthwhile mark
of 89 per cent. Pam also upheld the honour of the Form by gaining
top marks in the school for mothercraft.
Bernard Kemp is our only representative in the cadets and spends
his spare time drumming his way to success, and is also top in
manual training.
Now this is Form 2J signing off and concentrating on hard work
for the coming scholarship examination. We extend our best wishes
to all other examination candidates throughout the school.

GUIDANCE
Guidance in schools is an attempt to help young people make wise
decisions about their careers. Children have always received advice
from teacher, from parent, from well-meaning friends, and neighbours :
they still need to revive (and to sift) opinions from all these people.
They may also receive advice from a Guidance Officer, who is in every
case a person with experience as a teacher, with an advanced education,
with some knowledge of psychology, with specialised knowledge of study
courses and occupations, and with a keen desire to help youngsters.
But it is not the parents or the teachers or the guidance officer who
make final decisions : their aim is to help the boy or the girl to avoid
regrettable decisions, to make his own decisions well and to reach his
own goals.
Most people know that a guidance programme makes use of “tests”.
Many people think that if a child “does tests” all his problems will be
solved, his way to a certain definite occupation will be made perfectly
clear. If only that were true.
Tests are scientifically designed measures of ability, attainment or
interest in various directions. A child may have better ability at
mathematical than verbal studies, and his mathematical ability may
be much greater than that of other children of his age. His ability to
do academic work (or learning from books) may be greater than his
“practical” ability, and he may not be interested in “doing things”
nearly so much as in learning, or another may find book-learning hard,
but be clever at making things or adjusting machinery. These are the
kind of things that guidance tests try to measure and tests are
extremely useful if wisely used.