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Organised Games.
Facilities for weekly instruction in Organised Games are
possessed by all Senior Departments. In certain cases, the walk
to and from the playing fields causes considerable loss of time,
and this problem, combined with the general lack of facilities
for changing and showering, tends to restrict the full development
of this branch of the work.
Nevertheless, in spite of these difficulties, a keen interest
is shown in all boys' games, and the standard of play amongst
the girls is generally satisfactory.
In all cases, the need for specific coaching in all games
practices and for the more extensive use of the minor games
such as Rugby Touch, Team Passing, and Long Rail, is much
in evidence.
The subject in the Junior Schools is at present undeveloped,
owing to the fact that facilities for field practices are not
generally possessed. Arrangements are needed to ensure that
at least the upper standards of Junior Departments may have
access to a playing field for weekly games.
Swimming.
Arrangements for organised class instruction at the Open
Air Bath are necessarily limited—the demand for attendance
being far in excess of the limits of accommodation.
During the rather short season, instruction is given to six
classes each morning, from 9.0 to 12.0; more or less equal
opportunities being afforded to both Junior and Senior scholars.
Suggested arrangements for the future have been designed
to give preference to the needs of the Senior Schools, under a
scheme which provides for the attendance of normal school
classses as units of instruction and which overcomes the past
difficulties of time-table disorganisation. This scheme ensures
more effectively that every child on leaving school shall have
been taught to swim.
Dancing.
In both Senior and Junior Schools throughout the Borough,
English Folk Dancing is well taught and executed, facilities
for instruction being generally satisfactory. There is still scope
for the development of this branch of work along more interesting
and varied lines, however, and encouragement will now
be given to the introduction of National Dances, Folk Dances
of Other Lands, and the Central European type of Natural
Movement.