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open. There is also a verandah on this side wide enough to allow
beds to be brought out into it, when thought fit. On the
north-east side are windows admitting of ample cross ventilation.
On another side of the square is placed a rest room and recreation
room to accommodate the whole school, with a blanket store adjoining.
This rest room has a verandah on three sides, and is
enclosed on these three sides with folding doors, so that the whole
can be thrown open. Connecting the recreation room
and the dormitory, and forming the third side, is a verandah, with
administration rooms. These include coal storage, furnace room,
sprav bath and dressing room, staff sitting room, and matron's
flat complete, clothes store, store rooms and staff bedrooms.
The space between the buildings is tar paved as a playground for
the girls, and is sheltered from the east and north winds by the
buildings.
Connected to these buildings by a covered way is the dining
room, large enough to serve for the whole school, with kitchen,
staff dining room, committee room, stores, cook's room, larder
and coal store. The dining room can be thrown open on three
sides by means of folding doors, and, whilst protected from the
north and east, can get sunshine nearly all day. The rest room,
dining room, and classroom shelters are heated by hot water pipes
overhead or around the walls. There is a small isolation block,
and three new cottages have been built for the staff, and one additional
classroom shelter. The artificial light is electric, generated
on the premises. The water supply is from wells on the property,
and the school has its own sewage disposal plant. The new
buildings generally are constructed on a concrete base with light
steel stanchions, and roof trusses, filled in with studding, and
covered on the outside with weather boarding, and on the inside
lined with Essex boarding or asbestos sheets. The roofs are
covered with asbestos sheets or tiles, the floors are wood, except
in the spray bath room, which is asphalte, and the boiler room,
which is finished with granolithic paving. The total cost of erecting
and furnishing the school is £16,500.
(10) Physical Training.
There is no organiser of physical training for the Elementary
Schools, but drill and games and physical exercises are supervised
by individual teachers in various schools.
There is a well organised Sports Association, composed of
members of the Education Committee and Teachers, who organise
and superintend various sections of games, such as swimming,
football, boxing, netball, and cricket.
Scholars for whom an opinion is required as to fitness to participate
are referred to Dr. Skerrett, the Honorary Medical Adviser,
for examination. During the year some 184 boys were so
examined, three being found unfit for various reasons.
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