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the District Football XI, two girls were selected for the County
Cricket XI, and one girl each for the County Junior Tennis VI and
the County Junior Netball VII.
It is encouraging to find that schemes of work in Secondary
Schools have been broadened to allow a choice of major games
during winter and summer and to cater for the different interests
and aptitudes within the school. In addition to the normal
activities in athletics, cricket, football and swimming, one school
in the area has also provided opportunities in rugby football,
cross-country running and boxing.
A Hockey Coaching Course for selected senior girls was
arranged on several evenings towards the end of the Winter Term.
Schools were invited to send older girls with an interest in games
to meet secretaries of local Kent Women's Hockey Clubs, in order
to provide a contact with club hockey before leaving school.
Special coaching sessions for the girls were held on each evening.
The lecture-demonstration on Outdoor Pursuits, so successful
in 1955, was repeated on two occasions during the year. On both
occasions school leavers from all the Secondary Schools for Girls
in the area were given information on the various outdoor pursuits
which promote physical well-being and on the facilities available
to them on leaving school and in adult life. It is hoped that a
permanent interest has been aroused in this type of outdoor
activity, especially among school leavers who have no special
interest in, or aptitude for, team games. Lists of contacts for the
various youth and adult activities were provided for all schools.
Invitations were issued to all Junior Schools to participate in
two large Folk Dance gatherings during the year. Both occasions
were sponsored by the English Folk Dance and Song Society,
and indoor and outdoor facilities were used.
3. Swimming.
Rather less than one quarter of the total school population
in the Borough attended swimming baths during the year and
swimming instruction was enjoyed mainly in a ten-week summer
season by an average of 970 junior pupils and 1,319 Secondary
pupils at the following swimming baths:—
1. Bromley Open Air Swimming Bath.
2. Bromley Crown Lane Swimming Bath.
3. Downham Swimming Bath.
Information received from the schools indicates that no fewer
than 433 non-swimmers were taught to swim during the year and.
with two exceptions, it has been possible to fit into the swimming