The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-11
lt Mid Year
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 Ike place at s:30 o'clock Monday hg, Feb IT, The students will ple in the old High school build b will march en masse from the Alding to their new home. There brief exercises in the assem bly, suftab1e to the opening of the chool
 Plan of Organization.
 board of education and school
 having charge of the plan of I
 W building, have made, provision he introduction of some of the
 phases of work now being car )1t in many of the most progress econdary schools. Among these
 ons are the following: Labora
 for adequate scientific work for Iuil four years of the different
 s the introduction of the voea- Al activities in the extension of otmnercfaI work, domestic science afrt; Industrial work as soon as jlg, etc The assembly hall pro- for HorE in dra-natics and mu-- Ind thea gynlnasiun gives oppor-
 for adequate physical training. ! order to, iii a measure, provide he beginning of these activities nnection with the academic work, pnes necessary to provide for a
 school day, The program that been Followed, of conducting two $ sin one building, could not Le ued in the new building The progrf of a sing1a session. be
 g at go and closing at l, with ess period of Is minutes for
 would not lend itself to the Iteration of any of the newer
 above mentioned Such pro-
 made possible only six periods many of the students of the High
 six subjects.
 is almost the universal opinion hose who have made a, careful H Df the program of secondary ation that the day should provide fonr periods of academic study an extra period for laboratory
 or industrial work and that
 should be at least. two super
 study periods. Our progress is bed with this end in view, name at we shall have time for aca-
 recitation, at least two periods 1pervised study or double periods boratory work or the same time
 given in the work of domestic domestic science or mechanical ng or such work, the nature of
 requires double period of and furthers that we plan to give rfod for music, so that the entire Vol. once week, shall have in etion in .ehqrus singing.
 Honf Of Work.
 <. -,,--s4e 2 sss..--z.1 :a briae necessary te begin the school s 80 in the morning and to con- e. as general session, the work
 2: 30 the afternoon. giving half hour for lunch period. The r ann wi Il make it possible, after a
 for all students living within asonab1e distance from the school ding to be excused at 11s45, re- hing at 1so0 o'clock, in which time can go home for their dinners. Rents living too far from the build : to take advantage of this 5privi- < may bring with them thein lunch n home or they may b1ty 4their h at the lunch room of the school hey may bring part and buy part. B provision for lunch hour offers hose who remain in the building quate time in which to eat their Hch before returning to their class rl1
 Pvisfpn for Students Who Work. at of more than 1900 students Ire are on1g 3 6 who are working any tt of the school day. Of this num- AZ begin work in the morning all but IS finish before 11:30a ftty- fight begin work at 2 o'clock later and work in the afternoon. Six in from Il to 12 O. clock, working Ef1 2 or 2:30. It is very evident 't the problem of providing for working boys and girls was en- Ely confined to those who had been rking boys and girls shall ask dents were practically all Fresh : En students Our program will ,vide classes for the accommoda- : h of these working students, so that it is no teonvenfent for them to ange thelr working hours to con m to the program of. the school sy may continue in the work in pm will accommodate them. Classes |I be continued during the after pn to provide. for all subjects which it is not convenient for them to The above plan is the best that we a see to meet, the conditions and of the school and we mostly ask for the hearty co-opera- of student teacher and parent in : carrying out of the work to give best possible opportunities for the acation of the young people of this Y. We have one of the most mod D school plants of the east and we be to make it one of the most er- lent high schools.
 F. Fl. RAVENS,
 N. w. BISHOP,
 w. R. WEBSTER,
 Committee on Schools. Arrangements are being made for , dedication of the new High school fIding. John J. Finley, prominent an educator in New York, will