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PROPOSALS
to alter the examination system in sixth forms are not flexible enough,
a Northampton headmaster said yesterday.
Mr.
B. S. Howard head of Trinity High School, was speaking of the
recommendations put forward by the Schools Council and the Standing
Conference on University Entrance.
They have suggested examination at the end of both the lower and upper
sixth forms. "As I read the proposals ………… a pass in
mathematical or a science subject would be Imperative", said Mr.
Howard.
"I am not too happy about this arrangement and hope that when
matters are finally settled a more flexible scheme will emerge giving
sixth formers a greater freedom in choice of subjects than the present
proposals seem to envisage."
Mr. Howard thanked members of staff for their work during the year, and
added: "But education is of course more than the conveying of
information and we take every opportunity of extending, our teaching
beyond the classroom and relating it to wider experience.
Outings
He referred to the schools extra-curricular activities, such as outings
and holidays.
"No matter how many subjects are included in the timetable our
pupils need to gain understanding of the human society in which they are
growing up."
In external examinations some pupils had gained good results, but,
"on the whole the results were not as god as we would have wished.
At
present the school has more pupils than ever before, with 185 girls and
600 boys.
But Mr Howard said that with the coming of the interim scheme of
secondary re-organisation - the first step towards comprehensive
education - the numbers are expected to fall initially.
For the first time the head girl, Suzanne de la Mare and the deputy head
boy, C. D. Morgan, gave reports on the school's sporting events for the
year.
Guest speaker Mr. Clinton Sawyer, technical director of the Central
Council of Physical Recreation and a deputy director of the Sports
Council, congratulated the school on its sporting achievements.
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