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In spite, however, of the difficulties of restricted
accommodation in certain schools there has been a general
improvement in the quality of the instruction given. A
more extensive use of music in application to the
"Secondary" lesson, and the use of apparatus and a
better appreciation of the training values of the "Primary"
lesson have yet to be realised.
The extraordinary growth of the Bedonwell Estate,
in creating unforeseen demands upon school accommodation,
has resulted in depriving the Junior and Infants'
departments of the Bedonwell School of facilities for indoor
work. As further classroom accommodation is at present
being added, however, it is hoped that this handicap will
soon be removed and the school halls will again become
available for physical training during inclement weather.
Shoes and Clothing.
It is significant that in schools where there has been a really
determined attempt on the part of the teaching staffs to
secure the satisfactory equipment of children with shoes and
clothing for physical exercieses, the resulting benefits to the
work have more than justified the efforts employed.
The present policy of the Education Committee is to
encourage parents to provide these articles for their children,
and, where occasion demands, to supplement this provision by
limited supplies at Head Teachers' requests. In the case of
Senior Schools this arrangement has worked satisfactorily, but
much remains to be done before the problems and difficulties
of this provision in the Junior and Infants' Schools are properly
overcome.
Arrangements for tiie storage of clothing and shoes at
schools still present a major problem and until such arrangements
are secured, the general practice of changing for physical
exercises can never become really established.
Equipment.
In order to carry out the scheme of work suggested by the
Board of Education Syllabus of Physical Training, a constant
supply of small apparatus is essential. Arrangements have
been made for a definite supply to be allocated to every department
with a proportionate amount of renewals to be granted
each year.