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seven to ten classrooms. Smaller departments may be planned
conveniently with the classrooms opening from a corridor. In large
Schools there should be provided for the use of the Teachers a small
room with suitable lavatory accommodation. The classrooms
should not be passage rooms from one part of the building to another
nor from the schoolrooms to the playground or yard. Both schoolrooms
and classrooms must have independent entrances. The rooms
should be arranged so that each can easily be cleared without disturbing
the work proceeding in any other room.
Cloakrooms should not be passages, and should be external to
the schoolrooms and classrooms. Cloakrooms should be amply
lighted from the end and should not be placed against the gable wall
which should be fully utilised for windows giving light to the rooms
used for teaching. There should be separate ingress and egress so
that the children can enter and leave the cloakroom without contusion
or crowding. Thorough ventilation and disconnection are essential
so that smells are not carried into the School. Lavatory basins are
needed.
Lighting:—
Every part and corner of a school should be well lighted. The
light should, as far as possible, and especially in classrooms, be
admitted from the left side of the scholars. All other windows in
classrooms should be regarded as supplementary or for ventilation.
When left light is impossible, right light is next best. Windows
full in the eyes of scholars cannot be approved. The size and position
of the windows are especially important in their bearing on the
eyesight of the children.
A large portion of each window should be made to open for
ventilation and for cleaning.
The sills of the main lighting windows should be placed not
more than 4 feet above the floor; the tops of the windows should as
a rule reach nearly to the ceiling. Large spaces between the window
heads and ceiling are productive of foul rooms.
Skylights are objectionable. They cannot be approved in
schoolrooms or classrooms. They will only be allowed in central
halls having ridge or apex ventilation,