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REPORT ON SWIMMING INSTRUCTION IN THE SCHOOLS,
SEASON 1933.
The swimming season opened on the 1st May, 1933, and,
as in the previous year, provision was made for 52 classes per week,
31 for boys and 21 for girls. Of these, 48 classes were held in school
hours, whilst one class for boys and three classes for girls were
held in periods immediately before or after normal school periods.
All the instruction was given by the teaching staff of the schools
concerned.
The incidence of promotion in the schools necessitated some
slight re-adjustment of the time-table in the period between the
re-opening of the schools at the end of August and the end of the
season on the 30th September.
As in previous years, one small class of boys is continuing
to attend the Baths during the winter months for instruction and
practice in life-saving, and this year a small class of girls has been
similarly arranged.
The Acton Education Committee continues to award certificates
to boys and girls who can swim 25 yards down the length
of the baths without interruption, pause, or rest, and Acton scholars
also compete for the certificates of the London Schools Swimming
Association and the Royal Life Saving Association, as under:—
Swimming.
1st Class, 100 yards (condition as for Acton certificates).
2nd Class 50 yards (conditions as for Acton certificates).
Life-Saving.
Elementary and Advanced.
There are in the schools at the present time 1126 scholars
(626 boys and 500 girls) who can swim (as against 962 at the end
of last season) and 522 boys and 326 girls in the schools learned to
swim during the 1933 season (as against 500 in 1932).
The following is a statistical return relating to the season's
work:— ,
Year. Boys Girls. Total
No. of classes per week allocated 1933 31 21 52
1932 31 21 52