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in periods immediately before or after normal school hours. All
the instruction was given by the teaching staff of the schools.
The Season normally closes on the 30th September, but, as
in previous years, one or two small classes continue to attend the
Baths during the Winter months for instruction and practice in
life-saving.
The Acton Education Committee continues to award
certificates to boys and girls who can swim twenty-five yards down
the length of the bath, 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. (Conditions as for Arton certificates).
2nd class— 50 yards. ,, ,, ,,
Life Saving:
Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced and Medallion.
There are in the schools at the present time 1134 scholars
(597 boys and 537 girls) who can swim, as against 1248 at the
end of last season, and 273 boys and 267 girls now in the schools
learned to swim during the 1937 season (against 597 in
It should be borne in mind however that a great number of ttte
scholars who left the Elementary schools at the summer vacation
to enter Secondary schools had learned to swim by that date.