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5.0. Pack-up apparatus. Assembly for Prayers.
5.30. Tea—Cocoa, bread and butter, jam.
6.0. Dismissal.
From the foregoing time-table it will be noted that the
open-air school is not merely school in the open air, but is
in fact a new process. In every open-air school time has to
be set apart for:—
(1) Meals.
(2) Personal hygiene.
(3) Rest.
(4) Out of door oral lessons.
(5) Physical exercises.
(6) Nature study. Gardening. Object lessons.
(7) Manual training. Woodwork. Leather work.
Needlework.
(8) Trades.
Sir George Newman, Chief Medical Officer of the Board
of Education, has put it that the open-air school process
comprises a new and regular mode of life and a system of
treatment including the following :—
(i.) Fresh air and sunlight;
(ii.) Proper diet;
(iii.) Rest;
(iv.) The hygienic way of life;
(v.) Individual attention;
(vi.) Medical treatment;
(vii.) Special educational methods.
If the best results are to be obtained from the institution
of a school of this kind it is essential that the staff
should be chosen with the utmost care. The responsibilities