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If a child is found, upon arrival, to be suffering from some
minor ailment, the parent is urged to seek advice at the School
Treatment Clinic.
Meantime the children, after removing their outdoor clothing
and putting on the coloured overalls provided for them, clean
their teeth, and wash themselves if necessary.
While some play with dolls and toys, others busy themselves
over household duties. Boys and girls alike don rubber aprons
and scrub tables and chairs with a zest which never ceases to
thrill their astonished parents.
Plants are watered, flowers arranged and the tables prepared
for the morning milk and rusks. The children who have Cod
Liver Oil at this time, upon the recommendation of the School
Medical Officer, are regarded with envy by the rest.
Morning songs of greeting, occupation with sense-training and
creative materials, music, stories, toys and liberty to wander in
the garden till the morning until the children come in to prepare
for dinner.
Faces and hands are very grubby by this time, but washing
is no hardship when even the youngest child is encouraged to
take his own flannel from the hook (identified by its picture], turn
on the tap, and wash himself. This above all things, the child
likes to do unaided, and any offer ot help is met by the injured
assurance, "1 can wash myself."
Dinner is awaited with eager impatience, but even hunger
is forgotten in the desire to "serve." Great control is shown,
not merely of appetite, but of eye and hand in carrying dishes on
tiny trays made to fit the children's grasp.
After second and third helpings, dinner becomes less absorbing,
and voices are raised again, until they are hushed once more
as the children fall asleep upon their beds.
A romp in the garden, followed by a story or music, and the
afternoon fruit, bring the day to a close, and parents are greeted
with much excited chatter about the day's adventures.
The Edith Kerrison Nursery School.
Dr. Furniss reports:—

The following are extracts from the four quarterly reports.
March: "The condition of the children is very good, lour
children are away with diphtheria."
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