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During 1937 the Council granted the use of the swimming bath
as follows:—
(a) Life Saving.-—Boys, one afternoon throughout the season.
Girls, one afternoon after the summer vacation.
(ib) Summer Vacation Passes.—Use of the bath during the
summer vacation—25 passes to each school according to
time-table.
(c) Gala.—Free use of bath on two evenings at end of season.
As in previous years, two members of the staff at the Public
Baths were appointed as swimming instructors to the boys, and one
instructress for the girls.
Two conferences with regard to swimming were held by the
teachers interested, and land drill instruction in regard to life
saving was arranged for the girls preparatory to actual instruction
at the baths after the summer vacation.

In July the Walthamstow Men Teachers' Physical Education
Association arranged for a display at one of your Central Schools
of the latest instructional films on the teaching of swimming.
10. PHYSICAL TRAINING.
The following report (slightly abridged) is taken from that
submitted by Miss Hawkes and Mr. Last to your Committee:—
"We have pleasure in submitting the following report on
Physical Education in the Walthamstow Schools during 1937.
"1. Introduction.—The development of sound, healthy
physical recreation as part of the social life of the nation will not
necessarily follow the mere provision of adequate facilities. The
choice of leisure activity will largely depend upon the kind of
education people have received and we should, therefore, ensure
that physical education in our schools is laying a sound foundation
of appreciation of good physique and of practice in joyous physical
activity. In spite of the fact that the national scheme for physical
fitness contains no element of compulsion and no insistence upon