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health education.
In the previous year's Annual Report an account was given
of the extent to which hygiene is taught in the schools and of the
great interest taken in the work by the teachers as a whole.
It may here be stated shortly that the " Handbook of Suggestions
on Health Education " is used by the teachers as a basis
and the minimum extent of the health education recommended
by the Education Committee is as follows :—
Infants' Schools.
(a) Incidental and habit teaching each day when occasion
offers.
(b) In the upper classes, short informal talks of five
minutes each day.
Junior Schools.
(а) Incidental teaching each day as occasion offers.
(b) Formal talks of five minutes each day.
(c) Formal lesson of thirty minutes each week.
Senior Schools.
(a), (b) and (c) as for Junior Schools.
Central School.
(a) Incidental teaching as occasion offers.
(b) At least two formal lessons of thirty minutes each
week.