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merits the corridor is lateral. Folding doors to the classrooms open towards the playground
on the inside of the rectangle. Being on the ground floor throughout and
some shelter being afforded, the nuisance of disturbed papers was here less apparent,
L.C.C.HAIMO ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
ELTHAM.
and in the girls' department the corridor, though central, was lit, and capable of
ventilation, from above.
Plan No. 3 shows Ealdham-square school, opened in January, 1929, which is
also on the Eltham housing estate. This is a three-storey school in which the classrooms
have, on one side, folding doors capable of being thrown completely open,
abutting upon the playground in the infants' department but upon narrow balconies
in the two senior departments. On the other side, instead of a closed corridor, the
classrooms open upon a covered way completely open to the weather on one side.
This method of planning represents a big advance towards open-air conditions, as
the classrooms are all completely in contact with the open air on two opposite sides.
Carefulenquiries elicited that the standard of health of the children and staff was
high, but a certain amount of discomfort was experienced in bad weather. On the
day of a special inspection made in November, it was found that the covered way