[Report 1946] / School Medical Officer of Health, Smethwick County Borough.

  • Smethwick (Worcestershire, England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1946
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Credit: [Report 1946] / School Medical Officer of Health, Smethwick County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX B PHYSICAL TRAINING. This is included in the school curriculum and conducted in accordance with instructions, etc., contained in the Ministry of Educaton official publications re Physical Exercises, copies of which are in the possession of -each members of the teaching- staff. The Report of the Physical Training Officer is given below : “ In the year 1946, the standard of Physical Education in the Borough was maintained and in some sections progress was effected. Physical Education is not at a standstill ; the perfect scheme has not been found ; experiment and research are constantly being carried out in attempts to find better schemes for school children, and answers to the problems set by these children when they leave school. Modern Secondary Schools. Each of the three Modern Secondary Boys’ Schools has a specialist or semi-specialists conducting the Physical Education in the school. No standard scheme has been drawn up because of the difference in facilities for P.E. in these schools. Schemes of work peculiar to each school are being experimented with. In Uplands Boys’ School where there is a fully equipped gym, the scheme of P.E. comprised a series of tables in which the first part was a short programme of free standing exercises and the second part consisted of activities using gymnastic apparatus. Shireland Modern Secondary School being in the unfortunate position of not possessing a gym is carrying on with a Senior School scheme of P.E. using portable apparatus only. The other Modern Secondary School—Smethwick Hall— too, although possessing a gym, had in the first part of the year no fixed apparatus and ‘was conducting a similar scheme to that •of Shireland. Now, however, the gym is being fitted with the fixed apparatus and :as soon as it is completed a scheme will be put into operation using fixed and portable apparatus and con¬ taining a fair amount of progressive training in Basket Ball as boards for this game have now been erected in the gym. The work in all these schools could be improved if every boy could change into P.T. shorts for the lesson. There is no means of compelling the boys to supply own shorts and the only way of ensuring that each boy has a pair to wear during the P.E. lesson is to supply them on loan.
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