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Plan No. 1 is of Cephas-street school. This east-end school was opened in
October, 1928. It is a three-story building in which the classrooms are placed upon
one side and the school halls, cloakrooms, etc., upon the other side of a closed central
corridor. The classrooms on the ground floor are provided, on the side opposite
to the corridor, with folding doors, which open upon the playground and render it
possible to throw this side open completely. The arrangement is repeated on the
top floor (boys' department) where the folding doors open upon a narrow balcony.
In actual practice it has been found that the folding doors in the boys' department
are not used in very windy weather, for the reason that papers were blown
about in the classrooms, a practical difficulty which it is not easy to overcome.
The corridor, being of central type, abuts upon the open-air at the extreme ends,
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CEPHAS STREET SCHOO
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and it is found that owing to blustering weather the windows at the ends are
often closed.
Another recently-erected school is Wellington-road, a two-storey building also
in the east-end and opened in October, 1928. This school presents an advance in
the planning over that of Cephas-street as the corridor instead of being entirely
central abuts directly on the open-air in part of its course. Otherwise the general
type of plan (not reproduced) is similar to that of Cephas-street, the classrooms being
provided with folding doors throughout on the side opposite the corridor. The
nuisance of the blowing about of papers was also experienced here, but the corridor
being not wholly of the central type was more easily ventilated and the air was found
to be fresh.
Plan No. 2 is of Haimo-road school. This school is on the new housing estate
at Eltham. The infants' department was opened in February, 1925, and the boys'
and girls' departments in August, 1926. This school is a single-storey building with
the three departments arranged along the sides of an open rectangle. In the girls'
department the corridor is of central type as in Cephas-street, but in the other depart17710
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