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3. Organised Games.
The temporary closure of a Playing Field for
organised school visits has meant that only those schools
with facilities at hand have been able to make any progress
in games training. With the completion of shelter
arrangements now in progress at the above field, it may
be hoped that the Education Committee will shortly be
able to restore the arrangements under which parties of
school children were conveyed to and from the field for
their weekly games lessons.
The need for securing temporary alternative accommodation
for organised games for the pupils of one
School has been met by the kindness and co-operation
of the Stockwell College Authorities.
4. Teachers' Classes.
It is regretted that local conditions of school
staffing and the uncertainty of travelling have made it
necessary to continue the postponement of local arrangements
for the further training of teachers desirous of
specialising in physical education. A number of
Voluntary Recreative Classes for men and women have,
however, been available in the Borough, and these,
although non-technical in character, have been a useful
and popular means of extending the teachers' knowledge
of and interest in the subject.
Geo. H. Atkinson,
Florence M. Bentley,
Organisers of Physical Eihication.
20.5.41.
Provision of Meals.
Towards the end of the year, the Education Committee's
report on the scheme for the development of
school canteens throughout all Elementary Schools was
submitted and in general approved by the Board of
Education. The schemes outlined therein will materialise
during the current year.
No new canteens were opened during 1940, but
those at Raglan Road, Princes Plain, Keston and Hayes