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This article / image from the Auckland Star 1933 shows boys growing cabbages in a school garden as part of the nature study/gardens movment. The gardens were likely also a benefit (or necessity) in the Depression era. Frances

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Papers Past | Auckland Star (Auckland Star, 14 July 1933)

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IN THE SCHOOL PLOT.-Boys at the Handerson Primary School at work amongst the cabbages in the school garden.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PATM19311214.2.34?end_date=31-12-1939&phrase=1&query=education+school+schooling&start_date=01-01-1930
This article conveys before the abolishment of the Proficiency Exam in 1936, many students would not move on to secondary school. They would have to go straight into the workforce after completing primary education. This illustrates how the Proficiency Exam isolated secondary education from a majority of students.

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NEF lectures. Teachers attending the seminars of the NEF at Otago Girls High om 1937.
Significant due the fact that the Government closed all schools for a week to give all teachers the chance to attend these lectures.

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This source (architectural drawing) is useful as it depicts the typical design the Labour government had  in mind when building the first state houses between 1930s - 1940s.
There were some arguments that these homes were designed with the "dominant Pākehā culture" nuclear family unit in mind as is not a "one size (design) fits all" (see source)

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Report of the Minister of Education for the Year Ended 31st December, 1937

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Report of the Minister of Education for the Year Ended 31st December, 1937

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Page 10 of this report of the Minister of Education (1937) is useful as it discusses the effectiveness of the free milk in school which was implemented on 1st of March 1937. It also briefly talks about things they can do to improve (such as warming the milk in winter and getting advice on when is the best time for the students to drink milk). Moreover, shows how many students are supplied free milk and plans to extend it to more students.

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AtoJs Online - Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives - 1938 Session I - E-01 REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1937. [In continuation of E.-1... [truncated]

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This website contains digitised reports from selected volumes of the Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives and the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives from 1854 to 1950.

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This article is useful because it discusses how there was a bit of an issue regarding implementing the new school entrance age change, but the Minister of Education decided to go ahead with it. It also talks about issues regarding teacher shortages that could occur because of the entrance age change.

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Papers Past | The School Age (Press, 1936-01-25)

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The School Age*Although the Minister for Education shortly after taking office discovered that there were difficulties in the way of readmitting...

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Why does the lead article have the heading 'The Changing world'?

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Dr Isaacs attended the NZ NEF conference (although this photograph from The Telegraph is taken in Australia!). The website outlines the influence of child psychology in the Pacific in the era.

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E-02 1938 - report on 'NEF' conference 1937

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AtoJs Online - Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives - 1938 Session I - E-02 EDUCATION: PRIMARY AND POST-PRIMARY EDUCATION. [In continuation of E.-2 of 1937.]

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This website contains digitised reports from selected volumes of the Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives and the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives from 1854 to 1950.