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Education Department, in future deal with policy matters. Since
both organisations were eligible to send two representatives in each
event to the Schools County Swimming Championships, the new
arrangement ensures that as many children as possible will be
given the opportunity of swimming in top school competitions.
Many schools have taken a greater interest in gaining lifesaving
and survival awards. Additional school swimming pools
have been added to those already in being, and there are now six
learner pools that achieve 90 per cent, success in teaching children
to swim before the age of twelve. These pools have been produced
largely through the efforts of Parent-Teacher Associations, and the
Education Committee is grateful for this help.
Teachers have kept abreast of new developments by attending
courses in swimming, many of them gaining professional qualifications
as a result of passing the Teachers' Examination of the
Amateur Swimming Association. The offices of President and
Secretary of the Kent Schools Swimming Association are held by
Bromley Teachers, as well as the office of Competition Secretary
of Division Eleven (Kent and Surrey) of the English Schools
Swimming Association.
Water polo has been included in the swimming curriculum
for the first time and, because of the facilities enjoyed at the Crystal
Palace and the excellence of the instruction, great strides have
been made in this sport.
Residential Courses
This year the physical education adviser arranged a residential
course at the Crystal Palace for gifted pupils from each of the
secondary schools of the Borough. For four days an equal number
of boys and girls received instruction in athletics, diving, badminton,
gymnastics, judo, squash, swimming and trampolining. This was
done to illustrate the type of course that a school might consider
for its older pupils in order to give them a taste of working away
from home. It was gratifying, therefore, when two schools got
together and worked out a joint scheme for 30 boys, 15 from each
school, to live at the Crystal Palace for a further residential course
later in the year. It is hoped that many more schools will follow
suit and benefit from having this wonderful recreation centre within
the Borough's boundaries.
Games
The standard of play in all games continues to be very good.
Very many teams turn out each week and their dress and deportment
on the field are commendable.
The Borough can be proud of its extensive playingfield areas
attached to most of its schools. These are maintained to as high
a standard as is possible so that instruction of a high order can