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Gifts to the School.
We have received plants and bulbs for the garden from Mr.
Little, the Parks' Superintendent.
The Health and Cleanliness Council has sent us several posters,
gaily coloured and easy to remember.
The Empire Marketing Board sends numerous coloured
posters. We are specially pleased with all these because our dark
brown shutters are very dull in bad weather.
An Open Day is held each term and these are appreciated by
the parents who are proud of the results of their children's efforts
in school and garden.
These days are valuable to us, for we know the children
really well only when we know their mothers.
We hope the days are also valuable to the parents, because
we can emphasise the need for adequate sleep in summer, and of
stoc kings and strong boots in winter, and so on.
The improvement in our girls, and the gratitude of their
parents make our work well worth while, and we are proud to be
allowed to do it.
SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT.
Home conditions are found to be responsible for the slow progress
of a few girls.
1—In one case both parents are out till late at night, and often
return quarrelsome.
2—In another, two families are living in one room.
3—In a few cases poverty is responsible.
4—In two others dirt and improvidence are the enemies.
The joy of possessing good shoes, after wearing disreputable
ones, makes a most remarkable difference to a child's mental
health.
Parents' Meetings are arranged each term, and " Boots "
always provide one subject for profitable discussion.
In this way it is possible that the influence of a Day School is
more widely spread than that of a Residential School. That such
work is necessary the following instances will show :—
A Post Office Penny Bank has been started, so that each girl
may save the money for her own boot repairs.
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