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Practically every Senior and Junior School now holds its annual
sports meeting to which the general public is invited.
The Committee have resumed the grants to teachers who attend
holiday courses. Four teachers availed themselves of the opportunity
to attend such courses. There has been in each case an
improvement in efficiency and interest.
The courses in Morris Dancing and Sword Dancing were continued
with encouraging results. A special party was organised for
these dances, when many Senior Schools were represented.
A series of demonstrations on the methods of class teaching
applied to swimming were held at the Thornton Heath Baths.
They were very well attended. Practically every school in the
Borough sent teachers to observe the methods used. The year's
results show their influence.
The Croydon Schools Athletic Association has continued its
work. Inter-School competitions in cricket, football, boxing,
swimming, country dancing and general athletics have been carried
on throughout the year. The work of organising and supervising
these inter-schools activities is undertaken voluntarily by the
teachers in their own time and is worthy of the highest praise.
Girls.
(Central Senior and Junior Mixed, Senior and Junior Girls',
Infants' and Special Schools).
In spite of much unsettled weather during the year, which
hampered out of doors work, Physical Training was carried on
steadily in every department enumerated above.
All schools follow the methods outlined in the Syllabus of
Physical Training for Schools, 1933—embodying Physical Exercises,
Organised Games, Athletics, Swimming, and Folk Dancing.
It is now generally recognised that Physical Training is an essential
part of every child's education and a daily period is allotted to this
subject in every Junior and Infants' department as far as possible.
In the case of Central and Senior Schools, where longer lessons are
desirable owing to the use of gymnastic apparatus, at least one
hundred minutes per week (in many cases more) are given to this
subject.
Corrective Classes, for girls with faulty posture, were continued
in certain schools, as before.