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ORLEANS SCHOOL.
Accommodation.
The new building has been designed to accommodate 420 boys
on the first floor and 420 girls on the ground floor, and together
with the building for the infants' department, which was erected in
1911 on the same site, will provide accommodation for a total
number of 1,230 children. The accommodation consists of separate
assembly hall for boys and girls (each 50 feet by 28 feet 6 inches),
sixteen class rooms, teachers' rooms, cloak rooms, and lavatories,
stock and store rooms, and basement for heating apparatus with
coal and coke stores.
Lighting and Ventilation.
The class rooms are placed so as to obtain direct and ample
light by means of windows carried to the full height of the rooms,
and are so planned that in every case the desks are lighted from
the left hand side of the scholars. All class room windows are
fitted with centre hung fanlights at the top and glazed removable
hoppers at the bottom as well as the ordinary double hung sashes.
In addition to the window ventilation, special inlet and outlet
ventilators are provided in each class room, arranged so as to secure
adequate ventilation at different levels above and below the breathing
line, and ventilating radiators, fitted with regulating valves
are also provided next to the external walls for the supply of warm
fresh air during the winter months. The assembly halls, corridors
and cloak rooms are also provided with special extract flues connected
with ventilating turrets in the roof, and the cloak rooms are
fitted with wrought iron lattice folding gates which serve as a
protection against theft and at the same time materially assist the
ventilation.
Heating.
The school is heated throughout by an accelerated low pressure
hot water system, with two radiators placed at opposite sides of
each class room, under separate control, in order that the heat may
be regulated as required. Provision has also been made for the
heating of the cloak rooms by pipe coils placed at the floor level.