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PHYSICAL TRAINING.
A fall programme of physical training and of organised games
has been carried through as in previous years. Organised games
and school sports are held on fields at Redston Road, Rokesly
Avenue, Newlands Road, Priory Road, Highgate Woods and
Finsbury Park. Before long another playing field will be available
on the Coldfall site. In addition, large numbers of games are
played in the school playgrounds—out of the usual school hours
—in the form of systematic inter-house and inter-class competitions.
Instruction in swimming has been given in the school bath
during the summer months, and 1,020 children made at least 50
per cent. of the possible attendances at the school bath during the
swimming season. At the beginning of the season 300 were able
to swim, and by the end of the season another 400 had been
taught to swim.
Mr. Gilbert, of North Harringay School, General Secretary of
the Hornsey Schools' Sports Association, has been good enough
to give the following short report on the work of the Associatio:
"The competitions in tennis, netball, cricket, football,
athletics and swimming have been continued, and in some cases
extended, partly by the inclusion of new events, partly by the
entry of new schools. In some of the sections the time available
is now so fully occupied that participation in Inter-District competitions
has been largely curtailed.
The Association again desires to express its appreciation of
the generous help it continues to receive from the Borough
Council, the Education Committee, and the Council's officers. The
new shelter at the Redston Road Ground. for instance, has removed
all anxiety as to the vagaries of the weather, whilst the
existence of the Borough Trophy, for all forms of sport combined,
has added zest to all the competitions.
The scholars do not approach their games in any trophyhunting
spirit. They are encouraged to regard them as a source
of training in sportsmanship and good fellowship. The players
are keen and enthusiastic; they play their games fairly and
honourably; they do their utmost to win their games, but thev
are taught to regard their trophies not as ends in themselves, but
as tangible evidence of the effort which has been made and of the
success which has attended that effort.