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All Girls and Senior Mixed departments were able to send
classes to the Swimming Baths during the summer months,
though it was not possible to give some schools as much time
as they wished owing to limited accommodation, it being
especially difficult to allocate places to the schools in the Thornton
Heath and Norbury districts.
Girls from 25 departments were taken to a Recreation
Ground or Playing Field once weekly, whenever the weather was
suitable, for their organised games lessons. Netball continued to
be the game most often played amongst girls.
Corrective Classes.
Eight schools have corrective classes for the treatment of cases
of bad posture who are not serious enough to be referred to the
Remedial Exercise and Massage Clinic. The children in these
clases are examined by the visiting assistant school medical officers
at their visits to the schools in order to ascertain if any of the
children need more specialised attention, and to assess progress.
INSTRUCTION IN SPECIAL SUBJECTS.
In the time-table for the year ending 31st July, 1931, the
following provision is made for the instruction of older girls in
Special Subjects, e.g., Cookery, Homecraft, Housewifery,
Domestic Science
Intensive Housewifery Centres—
Sydenham.
Tavistock.
Cookery and Homecraft Centres—
West Thornton (Cookery and Homecraft).
Howard.
Ingram (Cookery and Homecraft).
South Norwood (Cookery and Homecraft).
Sydenham (Cookery, Homecraft and Domestic Science).
Woodside (Cookery and Homecraft).
Special Rooms reserved for school named—
Ecclesbourne (Domestic Science).
Elmwood ,,
Tavistock ,,
Norbury Manor (Cookery and Homecraft).
Waddon (Domestic Science).
Archbishop Tenison's (Domestic Science).
Lady Edridge ,,
Heath Clark ,,
Central Polytechnic (for Croydon British) Advanced Cookery.