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can be recorded. Our Schools have taken their part in the forward
movement for National Fitness initiated by the Government, and
increased opportunities and material facilities have been provided.
Purley Oaks Senior, and Lady Edridge Central School, now
in an advanced stage of re-building, will both be equipped with
changing rooms, showers, and gymnasia, and the Committee has
recently approved plans for the erection of a gymnasium at the
lavistock School. The pupils of the newly reconditioned Whitenorse
Manor Senior School are already in enjoyment of modern
shower bath equipment and dressing rooms.
The past year has witnessed a general adoption of suitable
clothing for the physical training lesson. All children of necessitous
parents are now supplied with plimsolls and Senior boys will be
equipped with shorts in the near future.
During the past year, nine men have attended Intensive
Courses of one month's duration at Scarborough or Loughborough,
and one man took a whole year's course of training.
A more ambitious programme of apparatus and agility work
is being attempted in Senior Schools with trained specialist staffs.
Provision is made for the teaching of Country Dancing in the
Junior Schools, and Sword and Morris Dancing in the Seuior
Schools, as part of our physical training programme.
The provision of playing fields has been maintained, and additional
grounds have been secured.
All available facilities for swimming have been used to the
full. For the first time, Winter Swimming has been introduced,
and has proved a success. The Inter-Schools Gala, held at the
Central Baths on July 20th, was a fine testimony to the all-round
excellence of Croydon swimming.
The Inter-School field events were organised by the Croydon
School Sports Association.
Ten Boys' Schools, as against seven in the previous year,
attended the camps at the Pilgrim Fort, and the new cooking
arrangements, and reduced scales of charges indicate that the popularity
of the Fort will increase rather than diminish.