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The Council has allocated to the Juvenile Organisations Committee a
permanent Camp Site at Mote Mount. Upon this site a hut 'has been erected
which serves as a general Headquarters for Campers. During 1933, 749 boys
and 57 girls from local organisations were in camp for week ends and holiday
periods.
PHYSICAL TRAINING.
The system in force remains as in previous years and each child devotes
approximately 60 minutes per week to physical training.
The system followed is that contained in the syllabus of the Board of
Education. There is no area organiser.of physical training in the district.
The same facilities for sports are enjoyed by all the schools, and in
July, 1933, teams representing the Hendon Schools' ISiports Association won
the Middlesex County Schools Championship at the County Championship
Meeting held on the Rugby Union Ground, Twickenham, and were awarded
the Alderman Forrester Clayton Challenge Shield and Cup to be held for a
period of one year. These trophies are competed for annually by teams
representing Public Elementary Schools in the County of Middlesex.
PROVISION OF MEALS.
Certain Head Teachers have adopted a voluntary sdheme for the supply
of milk to children in their schools.
The milk is supplied in bottles containing one third of a pint and this
is issued to the children during the morning session of each school day, at a
cost to the parents of one penny per bottle, which is collected daily from the
children concerned.
Dairies deliver to the school each morning, the requisite number of
bottles of fresh milk and this is distributed to approximately 1,000 children
during playtime.
The glass bottles are fitted with disc tops through which the children
draw the milk by means of a straw. The empty bottles are collected by the
dairies at mid-day so that there is, therefore, no labour entailed in the washing
of the receptacles.
The distribution of the milk is usually carried out by a monitor and
the great advantage of the scheme is that the amount of clerical work to be
done by Head Teachers is reduced to a minimum.
The Education Committee in 1931, gave instructions that a careful
watch was to be kept on the school population as regards the danger
of any child suffering from sub-nutrition and it also decided to provide such
Children with milk and cod liver oil, this to be free of dharge in necessitous
cases.