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Page 2 Thorough Physical Checks Necessary It's back to school for millions of American youngsters in a few weeks. It's starting school for the first time for the kindergarten or first graders, several million of them. There's no one season of the year that is best for physical checkups. In fact, the health care of your family should be a constant affair throughout the year. But. if you have been putting off a visit to the family doctor for your small fry. now is a good time to phone for an appoint ment. with the reopening of school in the offing. Your doctor will probably want to check the children's vision and bearing. Small children can, and frequently do. suffer gradual changes hi their eyes or loss of hearing without realizing it. Either of these conditions can play havoc with school grades and social adjustment in the class room. If your child wears glass es. they should be rechecked to make certain his prescription is still suitable. The small child who can’t see the blackboard clearly or can't hear the teacher's questions is frustrated and baffled. A dental checkup also is im portant. Many schools now en cojrage pupils to bring a certifi cate from* a dentist each year Basic Curriculum Same For Chapel Hill Schools The basic curriculum in the Chapel Hill school system is un changed from last year. How ever, some changes have been made in the Chapel Hill Senior High School and Lincoln High School curriculum. School Superintendent Howard Thompson will soon release a de tailed report of these changes. Briefly, he said, the recommen dations of the Citizens Commit tee for Chapel Hill Schools’ high school curriculum evaluating committee have been followed “almost completely.” Compliance with these recom mendations. in effect, has result ed in enrichment of the curricu lum for college-bound high school students, and a “more applic able” curriculum lor no»-college bound students. The rearrangement of existing Classrooms Will Be Adequate (Continued from Page 1) * what the total enrollment would increase to in the next five weeks. The number of children .brought to Chapel Hill by new Univer sity graduate students will pro vide most of this increase. Five individual school enroll ments are up from last year, three are down, and one ( West Frank lin Elementary) has no prece dent. Enrollment decreases at Lincoln High, Northside, and Glenwood result from transfers granted earlier this summer; the creation of the new West Frank lin School, which took many pupils who would otherwise have attended Glenwood; and the com pletion of the new Guy B. Phil lips Junior High. Individual school enrollments: Chapel Hill Senior High School, 577 now, 507 at the end of the first month of school in 1962; Guy B. Phillips Junior High, 775 now, 709 (in the old Chapel Hill Junior Highi) as of the first month of school last year; Lin coln High, 351 now, 379 first showing that an examination has been made. Small cavities can be filled before they become ma jor dental problems, and po tentially serious dental troubles often can be corrected if dis covered early. Ask your doctor also whether your children are properly im munized against the various con tagious diseases that threaten children and adults. A return to the indoor life of therein I room exposes the child to infection to a much greater degree than the outdoor life of the summer months. Vaccines against :tnall pox. polio, tetanus (lockjaw*, whooping cough and diptheria are now routine. New measles vac-, cines are now on the market. Make certain your family is pro tected. If your child is planning to participate in vigorous sports on one of the school teams, let your doctor know. He will examine the youngster to make certain there’ are no health cond tions that would interfere with partici pation. Schools now general y re quire a doctor’s certificate lor the student to "go out for the team.” . Adults need periodic physical checkups too, even though they tray be feeling fine. While sched uling examinations for the chil dren, don't forget the older niembers of the family. faculty members' duties, and the acquisition of additional faculty members, most of whom will be paid for by the State, “has re sulted in the creation of new courses facilitating a more com prehensive curriculum and great er development of the multi track approach to high school education.” Dr. Thompson, hacked by the Chapel Hill School Board, has stated publicly several times dur ing the past year that the non college-bound high school student in Chapel Hill was not being giv en all of the kind of training he needed, wanted, or could use. The development of the “multi track approach to high school education” is a step toward rem edying this situation, Dr. Thomp son said. month of school last year; North side School, 352 now, 443 first month of school last year; Glen wood School, 585 now, 725 first month of school last year; Frank P. Graham School, 335 now, 313 first month of school last year; West Franklin School, 335 now, 313 first month of school last year; West Franklin School, 164 now (West Franklin, formerly Chapel Hill Junior High, did not exist as an elementary .‘school last year); Carrboro School, 449 now, 434 first month of school last year; Estes Hills School, 616 now, 551 first month of school last year. FABRIC FAVORITES Top fabric favorites this sea son are shellands, hopsacks and heavy tweeds—with wool chal ks and tropic weight worsteds getting the nod in warmer cli mates. Deep blue blazers re main standouts, too. THJ& CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY Renovations Are Made (Continued from Page 1) well over $900,000. Lincoln High School received its first major paint job since its completion in 1950. Every thing at Lincoln was painted ex cept the gymtorium, including the halls, all offices, and all classrooms. The Lincoln cafe teria also received a new auto matic dishwasher. All classrooms and halls in the old section of Northside School were repainted, and the cafe teria ceiling was r'.so painted. The coat hooks that used to line the hall walls at Northside have been removed, and new movable wardrobes have been installed, each wardrobe with a capacity of about twenty children s coats and hats. Glenwood School has received no major renovations yet. but plans have been made to enlarge the school library by the size of a standard classroom (32 by 25 feet). A uew automatic dish washer has been installed in the Glenwood cafeteria, replacing the old dishwasher bought second hand five years ago. In addition, some substandard I Enrollment Noiv Phone 942-1088 lf no answer, 968-6817 i / m C/T* Certified by National Mf/Zf Sp Academy of Ballet Stt^ t Mu'*' • i V). National Academy of Ballet V **j , graded system is used to in- St**' C sure Steady Progress of Stu- .V dent at each level. V 0- Co-Founder and a Director of North Carolina State Ballet. fIL CLASSES OFFERED -V Pre-Ballet Classic Ballet -jjj for BOYS & GIRLS FOR BOYS & GIRLS 8 YEARS & OLDER H* 3-4 ... 11:00 A.M. Thursday Beginning Div Monday 3:30-4:30 >) 4-5 ... 2:30 P.M. Monday Wednesday 4:00-5:00 5-6 ... 2:00 P.M. Tuesday Beginning Intermediate ... Tuesday 4:00-5:00 \A A 6-7 3:00 P.M. Tuesday Intermediate Thursday 5:00-6:00 7/ -8 ... 3:30 P.M. Thursday Beginning Pointe Friday 4:30-6:00 J rfl ‘ Advanced Monday & Thursday 4:30-6:00 71 SC, Adult Ballet Thursday 8:00 PJW. Modern Jazz Tap Dancing * V V* Adults Thursday 9:30 A.M.-11:00 A.M. Beginners .... Wednesday 3:00 P.M. Jr. Jr. High and High School Wed. 5:00 P.M. Intermediate Friday 3:30 P.M. E BALLROOM DANCING JR. HIGH STUDENTS f* MEETS EVERY TUESDAY —7:00-8:00 P.M. (J* Ballroom Classes for Adults Will Be Formed ou Request Jt classrooms at Glenwood have been eliminated by the creation of the West Franklin School. At Frank P. Graham School no renovations were necessary, but new furniture was installed in the five classrooms that did not get new furniture last year. West Franklin School got a complete face-lifting. Everything was painted, coral and sky blue, and all new metal and vinyl furniture has been put in all class rooms. The basement, which was remodeled as well as re painted. now house the offices of Superintendent Thompson, and tlie school cafeteria supervisor, the instructional supervisor, the elementary music supervisor, the distributive education coordina tor, the speech therapist, and the industrial cooperative training coordinator, as well as work space for the school system's clerical staff. No renovations were made at Carrboro School, but at Estes Hills School $157,000 was spent on twelve new classrooms, which have been under construction for the last several months. In ad dition, all the furniture at Estes Hills was refinished. Sunday, August 25, 1963 - Facilities (Continued from Page l) bus transportation facilities will remain essentially the same as last year. Exceptions are in Vic tory Village, whose school chil dren will no longer be trans ported by buses, and Lake For est, of whose school children on ly high school students will con tinue to ride to school on buses. The faculty of the school sys tem has been enlarged, in sev eral cases by teachers who have taught in Chapel Hill before and are returning to teach here. In several other cases, new teach ers are local residents. School Superintendent How ard Thompson’s frequent state ments during the past year that Chapel Hill schools need a cur riculum more particularly suit ed to the needs of both college and non-college-bound students has borne fruit. Increased sal ary money made available by the State has permitted addition al faculty, and the rearrange ment of other teachers' respon sibilities has consider ably chwg ed the curriculum offered local young people. Use the Weekly classified ads.
The Chapel Hill Weekly (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
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