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option of sending a limited number of children weekly throughout
the winter months and girls from fifteen schools are attending.
The high standard of swimming achieved in the past has been well
maintained throughout the year. In addition to the Inter-Schools
Gala, held in July, School galas were arranged by 17 schools.
Playing Field or Recreation Ground accommodation is now
available for all Central and Senior departments and for all Junior
departments except 8. The year was a bad one from the point of
view of using the fields regularly, owing to the vet and inclement
weather experienced during the Spring and late Autumn, but all
teachers are convinced of the benefits that the children derive from
playing in the freedom of well cut grass fields with beautiful
surroundings.
Sports afternoons, Physical Training Displays and Inter-House
Tournaments proved popular and at least 40 of these events were
held.
Folk Dancing was carried on as usua). The Folk Dance Section
of the Croydon Schools' Sports Association arranged a Coronation
Festival of Folk Dancing, in Ashburton Park, on Saturday, May
29th, when over twelve hundred children took part in the dancing.
School Journeys were taken by girls from various schools to
Weymouth, Seaford (2), Cromer, Isle of Wight (4), Switzerland,
Germany and Paris. Four Girls' schools sent parties to camp at
Pilgrim Fort.
Corrective Classes, for girls with faulty posture, were continued
in seven schools.
The following Teachers' Courses were arranged during the
year.-
Course of Scottish Country Dancing.
,, ,, Senior School Physical Training.
,, ,, Dances suitable for Infants.
,, ,, Folk Dances of Many Lands.
Five teachers attended the E.H.A. Physical Training Vacation
School at Scarborough, in August.
A Play Leadership Demonstration, arranged by the Croydon
Playing Fields Associaton, in conjunction with the Central Council
of Recreative Physical Training and supported by the Croydon