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shoes and clothing for physical exercises, the resulting
benefits to the work have more than justified the efforts
employed.
The present policy of the Education Committee is to
encourage parents to provide these articles for their children.
In the case of Senior Schools this arrangement has
worked satisfactorily, but much remains to he done before
the problems and difficulties of this provision in the Junior
and Infants' Schools are properly overcome.
Arrangements for the storage of clothing and shoes
at schools still present a major problem and until such
arrangements are secured, the general practice of changing
for physical exercises can never become really
established.
(4) Equipment.
In order to carry out the scheme of work suggested
by the Board of Education syllabus of Physical Training,
a constant supply of small apparatus is essential,
Arrangements have been made for a definite supply to be
allocated to every department with a proportionate amount
of renewals to he granted each year.
(5) Organised Games.
One of the most outstanding features of the development
of physical education in this Borough during the
past year has been the adoption of a scheme to provide
weekly visits for organised games for the majority of
senior classes and for the upper standards of certain junior
schools to the Education Committee's excellent playing
fields at Oakley Road and Hayes.
The children are conveyed to and from the fields by
private motor coach under a time schedule which allows
them a forty-minute games period and collects and returns
them to their schools with the hour.
Future plans include:—
(i) the provision of changing rooms and spray bath.
at the above fields and