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Llew. J. Gill,
30th April, 1930. Hon. Treasurer.
In addition to the cash balance in hand the value of materials and
working tools in stock is estimated to be £14 14s.
During the above period 284 articles were made.
To the Instructress, Miss E. Malcolm Forth, I am indebted for the
following description of the activities of the Class:—
Our Deptford Handicraft Centre, 1929.
In my experience as a teacher, by now quite respectable,
I have found that newly-formed classes, especially those of a
pioneer nature, like our "T.B." classes, need very careful nurturing
in the early days of their existence. They need constant
and unremitting attention to the attendance, which will tend to be
unaccountably fitful, however good the teaching may be. That
teaching will need to be superlatively good, but without some
personal or spell-binding influence by the teacher, quite apart
from the subject studied, it will not be enough. Even so, the
class will threaten, now and then, to drop below the necessary
number, and so out of existence. Active measures have to be
taken, postcards written, students visited, and so on.
Then in the life of a class, most usually in its second year,
but sometimes even later, there comes a moment when the corner
is turned, it begins to live of its own life, and carries its teacher