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partitioned so as to accommodate 2 classes. Three of the rooms are
situated on the ground floor and 5 on the first floor.
All the classrooms are heated by open fireplaces, with ventilating
grates. All the classrooms have also inlets under the windows.
The three rooms on the ground floor have no outlet openings in
the roof, but in each one there is an opening in the breast of the
chimney, and the upper part of the windows is made to open.
In all the classrooms on the first floor there are outlet openings
in the roof, but in one of the rooms there are no inlets under the windows
The window area in all the classrooms is ample, and in 5 of
them the light comes almost entirely from the left, in 2 it comes
from the right and in one it conies from behind and the right, with a
little borrowed light from the left. In one of the rooms where the
light comes from the side of most of the scholars, a few of the desks
have been so arranged as to make the direction of the light on these
comes entirely from behind and in front.
SOUTH ACTON.
This school consists of two separate and distinct buildings
situated on the southern and northern sides of Osborne Road. In
one of the buildings are the Infants' and Girls' departments, and
in the other are the Junior and Senior Boys.
Infants and Girls' School is situated between Osborne
Road and Bollo Bridge Road, and has entrances from both streets.
The building is a two-storey one, and was erected in 1880 and
enlarged in 1897. On the ground floor is the Infants' department,
and on the first floor is the Girls' department.
The arrangement of the rooms in the two departments is
similar.
Each department consists of 10 rooms, together with a wide
corridor, cloak room and lavatory accommodation.
In the Infants' department one of the rooms is used as a hall
for drill purposes.
In all the rooms the window area is ample, but in three of the
class rooms most of the light comes from behind the scholars. In