[Report 1933] / School Medical Officer of Health, Essex County Council.

  • Essex County Council
Date:
1933
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Credit: [Report 1933] / School Medical Officer of Health, Essex County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ' ). Open-air Education. • 'a) Open-air Classes. ^ These arc cucouraged in playgrounds, &c., as facilities and occasion allow. iT) School Journeys. A certain number of schools have been able to continue their usual practice of t rrranging school journeys or school camps during the ordinary holiday periods i ind a good many educational visits have been organised either during school If sessions or during the week-end holiday ])criod. c) School Camps. Nil recorded. d) Open-air Classrooms. Nil. iO. Physical Training. The following information has been supplied by the Director of Education : The Committee’s arrangements for the inspection and supervision of the Physical Training undertaken in the Elementary Schools have, during 1933, been carried out on similar lines to those previously reported. Miss F. A. Morgan, Physical Training Instructress of the Saffron Walden Training College ; Miss Craig, Physical Training Instructress at the Braintree County High School and Miss Collman serving in a like capacity at the Clacton and Harwich County High Schools, are still employed as part-time advisers and instructresses in regard to Physical Training. Their activities inchide the instruction of teachers in the latest approved methods of handling their special subject in accordance with the syllabus of the Board of Education, and the visitation of schools to follow up the instruction given. During school visits, not only is advice and help given to the teachers, but much work is also done in actual teaching of groups of children as demonstration lessons for the teachers con- cerned. Classes for teachers responsible for taking Physical Training in the schools in different districts have been held during the year as follows :— Centre. County High School for Girls, Romford No. Enrolled. Saffron Walden Training College County High School, Braintree Chingford Senior Council School ... 50 36 49 96 In addition, single Physical Training lectures for teachers in the neighbouring districts have been given :—