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Playing Fields.
Name. Area. Availability.
Salisbury Hall 20 acres School days and Saturdays
North Walthamstow 5 ,, School days and Saturdays
Sports Ground
Low Hall Farm 52 School days only.
Chestnuts Farm 18 ,, School days excepting
Thursday afternoons.
Aveling Park 16 School days only.
Walthamstow Cricket Club Ground.—Pitches hired: 2 football
and 1 hockey pitch for Mondays (3 one-hour sessions) from
4th October, 1937, to 28th March, 1938. Cricket, 3 days
per week commencing 24th May.
Sites.
Name. Area. Availability.
Handsworth Avenue 10 acres School days and Saturdays.
Blackhorse Road 0.5 ,, School days and Saturdays.
Wm. E. Whittingham 1.7 ,, School days and Saturdays.
(b) School Journeys.—The following school journeys were
made during the year:—
School. Place. Date.
Shernhall Street Special—
Senior Scholars Babbacombe March, 1937.
Junior Scholars Canvey Island June, 1937.
Coppermill Road J. M. Combe Martin Whitsun, 1937.
Geo. Gascoigne Central
Boys Isle of Wight July, 1937.
(c) School Camps.—School camps were held at Guildford
Park, St. Helens, for Boys, and The Manor House, Sandown, for
Girls, during May, June and July.
Forms were issued at school to the parents of children who
were likely to benefit from attendance at camp, the selection being
made on grounds of poverty and ill-nourishment. The organisation
of the camps was, broadly, on the same lines as in previous years.
Three contingents of 66 boys were in camp for fourteen days
each between the 21st May and 2nd July, and three contingents
of 64 girls for similar periods between the 14th May and 25th June.
A total of 390 children were sent away.
(d) Swimming.—For some years a very active Swimming
Committee composed of official and co-opted members, with two
members of the staff of the Director of Education acting as organising
secretaries, has organised considerable swimming facilities for the
children attending Public Elementary Schools.