Sarah Heap was a pioneer in physical education for girls between 1908 – 1931 in Auckland. Sarah spent her career working at various schools and institutions including, Diocesan school for girls, Auckland Girls Grammar School, Mt Eden Collegiate and the YMCA all to varying degrees of responsibility.
She had a strong reputation as being the country’s leading authority on physical education for girls that in 1912 Sarah was the only women appointed to a committee to the minister of education for physical education in primary schools. Her contributions would be consequential too to forming the new scheme of physical education and compulsory medical inspections which was passed into law under the education acts 1912 and 1914.
Image, Alexander Turnbull Library Reference: B-K 550-30
Sarah Heap
Died 1960
