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The new Stanhope School gives to teachers and children alike
a valuable lesson since it provides for all school children open-air
conditions in all kinds of weather. Stanhope School and two other
new schools, Horsenden and Wood End, will provide open-air
education for most of the children in the Greenford and Northolt
Wards.
PHYSICAL TRAINING.
In the Report for 1929 a summary was given of the provision
for organised games for school children. The only change in this
record that need be made is that additional playing fields have
now been purchased at Boston Road (5¼ acres) and at Ruislip
Road (9 acres, 16 poles). The former is for the use of the new
Bordeston Senior Boys' School in course of erection, and the latter
for the use of Coston and Stanhope Schools. The Horsenden
playing field has now been enlarged from the 1½ acres noted in the
last Annual Report to a total of 4½ acres.
PROVISION OF MEALS.
The Education Committee have given every encouragement
to the head-teachers to adopt the scheme of the National Milk
Publicity Council for the supply of milk to children in the schools.
The scheme consists in supplying milk in bottles containing a
third of a pint to the children in the middle of the morning at a
cost to the parents of one penny for each bottle. The great
advantage of the scheme is that the amount of clerical work to be
done by the head-teachers is reduced to a minimum.
In initiating the provision of milk in schools in this way forms
are sent to the parents who are asked to express their willingness
for their children to receive a third of a pint of milk each morning.
The dairyman delivers to the school the requisite number of bottles
and a supply of straws. At the mid-morning interval the bottles
are distributed to the children, the children perforating the caps
in the bottles and inserting the straws through which they swallow
the milk. The empty bottles are collected by the dairyman at
mid-day. There is, therefore, no labour entailed in the washing
of receptacles. All the teacher has to do is to see that the milk
bottles are distributed to the children and to collect the pennies.