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conducted in the playground during the summer months, and
considerable use continues to be made of this method of teaching.
In two of the schools, however, another form of open-air
education has been enjoyed by a limited number of children.
31 boys and 2 teachers from Bounds Green Boys' School took part
in a school journey to Lyme Regis for a fortnight in June and July,
while 25 girls and 2 teachers from Bounds Green Girls' School had
a school journey to Ryde for a fortnight in June. These school
journeys enjoy great popularity in these two schools, and seem to
me to be an ideal method of pursuing education under excellent
health conditions.
There was also, as in former years, a School Camp in August
at Dymchurch, arranged by the Juvenile Organisations Committee
for a selected number of children from all the elementary schools.
The number of elementary school children sent this year from Wood
Green was 184. These children were selected 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, naturally, given to children who seemed 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.
This provision of a holiday year by year to such a large number
of the less fortunately circumstanced children in our schools is, as
I have said on many previous occasions, a very valuable contribution
to the health and well-being of these children, and Wood Green
is fortunate in having such an excellent organisation as the Juvenile
Organisations Committee, capable of carrying out such a valuable
service.
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, sometimes
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 five girls to Collington Manor, Bexhill.
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