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Eighty girls have also been sent by the J.O.C. to King Edward
VII Memorial Home, Heme Bay during the summer, where they
have been carefully housed and fed, and have derived much physical
benefit.
(d) Open-Air Classrooms.
We have, at present, no Open-Air Classrooms in the Public
Elementary Schools.
(e) Day Open-Air Schools.
We have none at present, but proposals are being discussed for
the inclusion of 50 Wood Green children in the new Day Open-Air
School which the Borough of Hornsey are contemplating building
in the near future, and which would be easily available from this
District—the children being conveyed there and back by Ambulance.
(f) Residential Open-Air Schools.
There are none in this area, but we have 4 places allotted to
Wood Green at The Russell Cotes' School of Recovery, at Parkstone,
such boys staying there for 6 weeks. Seventeen boys and 1 girl have
visited this School, and much benefit has been derived.
10.—PHYSICAL TRAINING.
In the Council Schools, we have no Special Instructors. Various
Teachers have qualified themselves for such work, and their services
are being used for the Physical Exercises, which are given in both
Boys' and Girls' Departments. A number of voluntary clubs
meeting in the Schools during the evening, provide very considerably
for the physical and social welfare of the scholars.
11.—PROVISION OF MEALS.
There is no branch of educational work which is rendering more
humane service than the feeding of poor children who are not getting
sufficient quantity and quality of food at home. It is an undoubted
fact that a child is not in a suitable condition to receive instruction
unless he is adequately nourished. Older people may be expected
to look after themselves, but those of tender years deserve our
sympathy and help; and money used in this direction is well
spent.
During the year, meals have been provided at our Feeding
Centre, where the food is good, well-cooked and served. The
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