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In Bounds Green Boys' and Bounds Green Girls' Schools, school
journeys have been arranged each year for many years. In 1935,
32 boys accompanied by 2 teachers from the former school took
part in a school journey at Teignmouth for a fortnight at the end of
June, while 22 scholars accompanied by 2 teachers from the Girls'
School had a school journey at Babbacombe in Devon for a fortnight
at the end of May. These school journeys are an ideal method of
pursuing education under excellent health conditions.
In addition to these two school journeys there was, as in former
years, a School Camp arranged by the Juvenile Organisations
Committee for selected children from all the schools. The camp
was held at Dymchurch from August 17th to 31st, and 198 elementary
school children had an excellent holiday. Four of these were
children from the School Sports Association, and the others, 93 boys
and 101 girls, were children selected from the elementary schools
by the Juvenile Organisations Committee with the help of the head
teachers, and in some cases on the recommendation of the School
Medical Officers. The preference was given to those children who
appeared to be most in need of a holiday, and least likely to obtain
one in any other way. The children were medically examined,
weighed and measured before going to camp, and again weighed
and measured on their return home. The benefit derived from the
holiday was in most cases very evident, and the gain in weight
appreciable, and there is little doubt that both the children themselves
and their parents are very grateful to the Juvenile Organisations
Committee for the excellent holiday provided. The
contribution which this Committee makes year by year in this way
to the health and well-being of such a large number of the less
fortunately situated children in the schools, is, in my opinion, a
very valuable one, and the Education Committee is much indebted
both to the Committee and its Secretary for the energy displayed in
raising the necessary funds and perfecting the organisation, and also
to the teachers and other helpers who act as supervisors at the Camp
itself.
As in former years also, a number of children were sent for
limited periods, usually of six weeks, to residential open-air schools.
These are mostly poorly nourished or debilitated children, often
recovering from serious illness. Eight boys and eight girls were sent
to the Russell Cotes School of Recovery at Parkstone, Dorset, and
five boys and four girls to Collington Manor, Bexhill.
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