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“Every Girls‘ School has a netball pitch marked out in its
playground, and there are tennis courts in the playgrounds at North
Ealing, Grange and Central.
“The Education Committee supplies all equipment such as
balls, bats, rackets, sticks, pads and wickets, and also goal posts
and nets, but the children themselves, or the school funds, are
required to provide the special sports clothing required.
“As regards the amount of time devoted to organised games,
the detailed arrangements depend largely on the weather and the
state of the grounds, but generally speaking each class has four
or five 20-minute periods allotted for physical training each week,
and when circumstances permit two of these 20-minute periods
are grouped together and used for organised games.
“There is a School League for Football and also one for Netball.
The Annual School Sports are held in Walpole Park in May, and
training under the supervision of the teachers takes place from Easter
onwards. Last year there were 39 events in the programme and
5,029 entries in all for these events.
“The school swimming bath has proved insufficient to accommodate
all the children in the enlarged Borough, and the 2nd Class
Bath was engaged in addition for two half-day sessions weekly
last year. As a result of the examination held at the end of the
session 85 Honours Certificates, 139 First Class Certificates, and
210 Elementary Certificates were issued to boys and 113 Honours
Certificates, 184 First Class Certificates, and 267 Elementary
Certificates to girls. It might be explained that the Elementary
and First Class Certificates cover different degrees of proficiency in
swimming and the Honours Certificate includes also an elementary
knowledge of life-saving.”
PROVISION OF MEALS.
With the encouragement of the Committee most of the headteachers
during the year put into operation the scheme of the
National Milk Publicity Council which consists in supplying milk
in bottles to the amount of one-third of a pint to school children
each day at a cost to the parents of one penny. In the scheme the
clerical work imposed on the head-teacher is reduced to a minimum.