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(b) Open air classrooms.
There is a bungalow classroom at Richmond Road
Infants' School, two sides of which can be opened.
(c) School journeys and camps.
Educational visits are made to the country and local
parks for nature study, etc.
1 St. Luke's Central School for Girls.
The school journey which was undertaken by 28 senior
pupils and two mistresses of St. Luke's Central School for
Girls was in every way a successful undertaking, the girls
returned safely and physically very fit. Many valuable
results of this educational week with its community life
were observed, and an exhibition of the work was later given
in the school. The girls proceeded to Llangollen, North
Wales, for the first week in May, 1934. Some of the reasons
for choosing Llangollen as a centre were:—
1. To study on the spot a type of country entirely different
from our own.
2. To enjoy the beauties of the Dee Valley and the North
Wales mountains.
3. To understand more clearly what working in a colliery
means.
4. To realise under what conditions other people in Britain
live.
5. To see a great port (Liverpool).
6. To realise that the art of building beautiful churches is
not dead in this country (Liverpool Cathedral).
7. To see such historical places as Chester and Valle Crucis
Abbey.
Excellent accommodation was provided through the auspices
of the School Journey Association, and reduced fares
were offered by the Great Western Railway.