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erection. Some of the remaining old schools serve their purpose
fairly well, striking defects having been met by more or less recent
improvements, but one calling for immediate consideration is
St. Saviour's Infants' School, which must be condemned from the
hygienic aspect.
The new Grange School marks the recent development of
school construction. The schools built in 1905 consisted of a
central hall with the class-rooms arranged round it as at Little
Ealing and Northfields Schools. The next development was with
the hall on one outside wall, the class-rooms being arranged round
the other three sides, as at Lammas, Drayton and North Ealing.
The Grange School, on the other hand, is built as a single range
of class-rooms, in the form of the letter "E" with the central arm
wanting. Along the inner side of the figure is a broad corridor
with a glass roof and on to this corridor the whole of the rooms
open in such a manner that the whole building when required
can become an open-air school exposed to the maximum of sunlight
and with complete through ventilation. The two large class-rooms
centrally situated can, as occasion requires, be converted, by the
folding of a glass and wood partition, into a large assembly hall.
The general convenient arrangement of teachers' rooms, lavatories,
etc., can be seen in the plan represented on page 44.