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OPEN AIR DAY SCHOOL.
The Special School for Physically Defective Children
was temporarily accommodated on the ground floor of the
Domestic Subjects Centre in Bonner Hill Road.
In May, 1931, the children were transferred to the OpenAir
Day School, which forms part of the new Grange Road
building.
The school consists of two classrooms, separated from
each other by a movable glass partition, and designed to
accommodate fifty pupils.
The classrooms, which face south, have sliding windows
glazed with Vita glass to within two feet of the floor. On
the other side the sliding windows operate from floor level,
since outside there is a glazed open covered way which turns
at right angles, skirting the cloakrooms, to enter the main
building.
There are separate cloakrooms for boys and girls, with
entrances from the covered way. These cloakrooms are
supplied with hot and cold water, have lavatory accommodation,
are heated, and have drying racks for boots and
clothes.
The classrooms are so planned that two more classrooms
could be added if necessary without alteration to or
extension of the main building or cloakrooms.
The Dining and Rest Room, 41 x 24 feet, is in the
main building, and has a floor of oak blocks. Leading out
of this room is the kitchen, which is carried out in white
tiles and is fitted with a range and gas stove.
The Caretaker's quarters are situated on the further
side of this kitchen, and consist of three rooms and a
bathroom.
There is a large amount of land behind and to the west
of the building available for gardening instruction, and
immediately adjacent to the classrooms is an asphalt playground.
A careful survey of all delicate children attending the
ordinary Public Elementary Schools was made, and the
selection of those suitable for transfer to the Open-Air School
was necessarily slow, but by the end of the year there were
45 children on the register of this School.