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The Education Committee, with the co-operation
of Head Teachers have therefore adopted
the experiment of offering certain additional
facilities for social and recreational activities
amongst children in their last year at school.
The experiment has already proved popular
in the schools and with the continued development
of the scheme, it may he anticipated that
much good will result.
Teachers' Classes. Owing to staffing difficulties
it has not been found practicable to resume local
arrangements for the special further training of teachers
during school hours, such as for several years had been
productive of such good results in our elementary
schools. The need for Refresher Courses is so urgent,
however, that as a temporary war-time expedient it has
been necessary to consider the alternative of evening
classes of a less specialised nature, arrangements for
which have already been made for the coming year.
GEO. H. ATKINSON.
F. M. BENTLEY.
District Organisers of Physical Education.
Provision of Meals.
In addition to the school canteens already functioning
at the end of 1941, six more were opened during
1942. Thus, at the end of 1942 ten out of twelve
elementary schools in the Borough were equipped with
canteens as follows:—
Valley Council School.
Raglan Road Council School.
Aylesbury Road Council School.
Burnt Ash Council School.
Princes Plain Council School.
Hayes Council School.
Southborough Council School.
Parish Church of England School.
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic School.
Keston Church of England School.
Children attending Bickley and Widmore Church of
England Schools continued to obtain their meals from