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(9) OPEN-AIR EDUCATION.
Playground Classes. —May I take this opportunity of stressing
the need there is for more classes to be held in the open air ?
It is unfortunate that school furniture, school stationery and
the school curriculum generally are not such as to make playground
classes so easily arranged as they should be, and that on account of
the inherent difficulties of arranging playground classes they cann'ot
be so often arranged as they should be.
It ought to be possible, with a minimum of effort, for any class
of scholars to take the whole of the essential furniture into the
open air without difficulty. For this purpose the furniture should
be light and if necessary collapsible. Reading books and stationery
should be of coloured paper, so that work can be undertaken in the
open air without any eye strain, and the curriculum, etc. so arranged
that there are lessons which can with advantage be taken out of
doors.
School Journeys. —The following school journeys were made
by scholars during 1929:—
Date. School. Place Visited.
17/6/29 Ripple Girls' School Valentine's Park, Ilford.
27/6/29 Westbury Boys' School East India Dock,
Isle of Dogs,
Blackwall Tunnel,
Greenwich Museum,
River Thames at Greenwich,
Greenwich Observatory,
Woolwich Foot Tunnel.
21/10/29 Westbury Girls' School Barking Church and Abbey
Grounds.
21/10/29 Ripple Girls' School Barking Park.
The question of school journeys on a much more comprehensive
basis than that which has obtained in the past is being considered
by you.