Hints and suggestions on school architecture and hygiene : with plans and illustrations for the use of school trustees in Ontario / by J. George Hodgins.
- J. George Hodgins
- Date:
- 1886
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Hints and suggestions on school architecture and hygiene : with plans and illustrations for the use of school trustees in Ontario / by J. George Hodgins. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![boards of pine,—the bottom one eight or ten inches wide, and the rest each six inches, should be nailed, at the proper spaces from each other, on the posts set in the ground ; and then a pine board,—four or five inches wide, fastened flat to the top of the post, cut even with, or slightly inclined toward, the highest board on the side. The fence should be painted in an agreeable and lasting color.* The gates should be strongly built, and so hung that they will shut themselves [and open either way]. An entrance way for the school, in the style here illustrated [or a turn-stile], will _ _be found very convenient. It effectually excludes cattle from the enclosure ; while it permits children and even adults to pass through with no difficulty. The opening in the fence next to the street should be four feet wide, and the passage inside two feet.” Separate Entrances to the School For Boys and Girls. “12. There should be separate entrances with covered porches and suitable cloak rooms for boys and girls.”—Regulations, 1885. 83. There should be two separate entrances to every school house—one for boys and the other for girls.*f* This provision is now almost universal; and all the new and approved school houses have two entrances. Experi¬ ence and the fitness of things, as well as the discipline and morale of the school, require these entrances to be separate. The United States book on School Architecture says :— “ 1. The entrances, which must be separate for the two sexes, should be so planned that both boys and girls may be under the eye of the teacher in entering and leaving the room. They may be in the wall behind him, a very common position, but are better either in the side or opposite end walls, so that without turning his head, his glance may follow them through the vestibules until they are out of the building. This plan will prevent the silly tricks which children carry on in the vestibules sheltered from the teacher’s observation, to the amusement of their fellows but to the detriment of discipline. The best arrangement will be to put one entrance door in the side wall, near the teacher’s end of the room, and the other in the opposite end wall. “2. The side door may be appropriated to the boys, who will thus be nearer the teacher and more under his control in entering and departing, and the end door, which will be behind the pupils, to the girls. “3. The room being lighted alike on both sides, the pupils may sit facing either the east or west, but there are many advantages in arranging them to face the west. By this disposition the girls’ entrance is brought on the sunniest and most sheltered part of the building, as it should be, and in interior planning, the stove or furnace, which must be at the north, west corner of the room, comes in front of the pupils, where it finds the largest space and where its heat is diffused with the greatest comfort to all. “4. Aspect must also be considered in regard to the entrances, which, in a word, should always face the south. A south entrance gives a breathing place for the children in rainy or blustering weather as they approach or leave the building, and protection to the interior from the March north-westers or easterly rain storms, which will blow in * With coarse sand mixed with last coat of paint. fSee Official Regulation on this subject, preceding paragraph No. 81, page 44. See also block plan, Fig. 15, on page 48.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30480449_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
