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"Two Cloakrooms are provided, one at each end, each
being divided into two by means of a 4½-in. partition. These
are fitted with ranges of white glazed lavatory basins, the
walls being finished with white glazed tiling 4-ft. high, with
a terrazzo floor. The cloakrooms are heated.
"A Caretaker's Lobby is provided at each end, fitted with
cupboards and sinks, and a reinforced concrete staircase leads
to staff rooms on 1st floor over cloakrooms.
"The Staff Rooms comprise head teacher's room, male
assistant teachers' room, with stock room and lavatory accommodation
at one end, with similar rooms for assistant
mistresses at the other end.
"Two main entrance Lobbies are provided next to the
cloakrooms.
"In the centre of Building on the North side, an Assembly
Hall is provided, 70-ft. long x 30-ft. wide, with a curved
plastered ceiling on hyrib construction. The walls are panelled
out in oak, to a height of 6-ft., with ornamental plasterwork
round doors and windows and to pilasters, the whole
being surmounted with a bold plaster cornice on top. The
floor will be of wood blocks laid in mastic on concrete.
"The whole of the Classrooms, Cloakrooms and the Assembly
Hall open out to a main corridor 9-ft. wide, running
the whole length of the building with an asphalt flat over,
access to which is gained from the staff rooms on the first
floor at each end.
"The Walls of the Corridor are finished with 'Carterazzo'
wall lining and capping with a coved skirting and floor of
terrazzo paving.
"Four Emergency Exits are provided from Assembly Hall
and Corridor.
"The whole school is provided with natural ventilation,
the classrooms, by means of cross ventilation, and the Assembly
Hall by means of No. 4. ventilating dormers in roof, ventilating
gratings in ceiling and the windows.
"The heating is supplied by a low pressure heating
system.
"Duplicate boilers are provided in Boiler House,, which
is centrally situated under Classroom No. 9, and the system
is designed to maintain a temperature of 60°F. for Classrooms
with 3 changes of air per hour and of 55°F. for corridor
with fewer changes of air per hour, and with an outside
temperature of 32°F.
"The whole of the school is fitted up with Electric
Lighting.
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