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It is fully recognised that for such a scheme to be successful
the active sympathy and co-operation of the Head Teachers is
necessary and the suggestion is made that Head Teachers of Senior
Schools be handed a copy of this report and be asked to give their
opinions on the proposals contained therein, and that following
thereon a conference be arranged with their representatives and
the School Medical Officer, and the deliberations of such conference
be placed before the appropriate Sub-Committee of the Education
Committee
Yours faithfully,
(Signed) OSCAR M. HOLDEN."
NURSERY SCHOOLS.
No nursery schols have been yet established in the borough
PHYSICAL TRAINING IN SCHOOLS.
Detailed reports have been presented by the Inspector oi
Schools and the Organiser of Physical Training to the Education
Committee, and the following is only a pr6cis of these reports.
Boys.
The Inspector of Physical Training states that the arrangements
for the lessons continue to be satisifactory. The full benefit
of the work is obtained in those schools where a daily lesson is
in vogue, and these schools constitute the large majority.
The ordinary daily lesson is of 20 minutes' duration, but it
is hoped to have lessons of not less than 30 minutes in the
reorganised Senior Schools. The importance of physical training
being taken in the mornings is pointed out, and the physiological
fact that mental fatigue detracts from the value of co-ordinated
physical exercises is emphasised.
The reorganisation of the schools will have the advantage of
placing the boys together in age groups for gymnastic work, and
it is hoped the size of the classes in Senior Boys' Schools will
enable, in future, a good deal of individual work in this branch
of physical culture to be carried on. In classes of more than 40
boys individual work is very difficult.