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Goldbeaters Senior School.—Additional storeroom accommodation
provided.
Deansbrook Infants' School.—Window sills provided in
eight classrooms for display of flowers, etc.
Re-decorations.—Eleven schools were re-decorated either
internally or externally during the Midsummer Holidays.
Playgrounds.—A number of school playgrounds were topped
and dressed.
Projected Improvements.—Plans are now in course of
preparation for the following :—
Bell Lane School.—Re-roofing the whole of the existing
buildings.
Childs Hill Council School.—Alterations, additions
and improvements to existing sanitary accommodation.
Various Schools.—Removal of stepped galleries from
twenty classrooms and floors made good.
ADDITIONAL SCHOOL ACCOMMODATION.
Brent Modern School, Sturgess Avenue.
This school was completed in December, 1935, and will be
ready for occupation after the Christmas Holidays. There is
accommodation for 400 Senior Mixed Children. In addition to
the usual classroom accommodation and assembly hall, the following
special rooms have been provided:—Science Laboratory, Arts
and Crafts Room, Domestic Science Centre and Manual Instruction
Centre for Woodwork and Metal work.
The school is of the open air type. The classroom walls
opening on to covered verandahs are sliding glazed partitions.
All windows open and cross ventilation is arranged up to ceiling
level. Gardens and shrubberies are laid out around the playgrounds
and in the central court and the whole effect is very
pleasing.
Algernon Road Council School.
Consequent upon the opening of Brent Modern School, the
Algernon Road Council School will be re-organised into Junior
Mixed and Infants' Departments after the Christmas Holidays.