The Archive · 1928

Boyes, Basset

The Ist Shanghai Ca. (Cathe:

val School) will be in charge of the 'Home Produce stall, where cakes, jams and preserves' will. be sold: Here will be a raffle with eight wonderful: prizes -to be. won, books, flags ete. which must_naturally be stored in a safe place, chenille are the picture frocks of net in latest trimming for} pastel interested are sending contributions each day, so that cakes and buns, tea and fruit drinks have been served to the children from four oclock until it is time for the services to begin at 4.80.

Realizing that it would be impossible for many of the children to attend unless some means of transport were provided, arrangments were made with a local hire car service, and with various other transport companies who also kindly volunteered their help, to. bring the children each afternoon to the Cathedral. The cars go round to the schools and at each pick up as many children as want to attend the services. Ax soon as the children arrive for the first time they are asked their home addresses, and these are written down on a little coloured badge which the child wears during the meetings for the rest of the week. The colour of the badge indicates the district in which the child lives, 'A. Met "of these. names aid aiddreties: ty Kept, and it. will be invaluable when the-time comes for drawing' up a list of the children: in each district" aNd' dveRUttig" Which' school ench'will attend. how to conduct their classes, it is proposed that first_a class for the teachers should be held, when some idea of the methods they should use will be given, Special books for the classes have been sent for from Home for use in the Sunday schools, and should prove excellent. There is a book for each teacher which tells how to teach the children, and what questions to set,.and another for each child in which there isa page' for every lesson, One each page there is space for a coloured card to be pasted in, a short verse to be learnt by heart is given and space left for answers to questions on the-lesson before, Much hard work has been put into the organizing of both tke special week of services and the Sunday schools, and to judge by the number of children attending each day at the Cathedral and the {interest the children show, these wird. efforts are to have their full re~

'Phe dorvices will continue until Sunday when the last will: be beta and any cil oral. wi, fete would like' to attetid' wit be glad!

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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