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Organised Games and Athletics.—Twenty-six departments
were able to make use of Playing Fields or Recreation Grounds
for Organised Games lessons, and 31 departments arranged Sports
Afternoons or Inter-House Games Contests.
Folk Dancing is taught in all Central, Senior and Junior
Departments (except three), and a high standard has been maintained.
Corrective Classes for children with faulty posture were continued
in six schools during the year, and a new class (at Heath
Clark Selective Central School) was started. In all seven classes
the School Medical Officers when examining the pupils have
expressed satisfaction at the results achieved.
Seven Departments sent Girls' Camping Parties to Pilgrim
Fort during the season, and girls from seven schools participated
in School Journeys to Seaford. Herne Bay, Teignmouth, Isle of
Wight, and Wimereux.
"Refresher Courses" for Teachers held during the year
included:—
(a) Physical Training for Senior Schools (2 courses).
(b) „ „ Junior Schools.
(c) „ „ Infants' Schools.
(d) Swimming, in preparation for the Teachers' Certificate
of the Amateur Swimming Association.
(e) Physical Exercises, suitable for Corrective Classes.
Four Conference-Demonstrations on the work of the 1933
Syllabus were arranged for Class Teachers, on similar lines to
the Head Teachers' Demonstration and Conference in 1933. At
each of these demonstrations, to which one teacher from every
department was invited, work by Infants, Junior Boys, Junior
Girls, Senior Boys and Senior Girls was shown.
The Physical Training carried on in school hours has been
encouraged and augmented as in former years, by the voluntary
and "out of school" activities of the Croydon Schools Athletic
Association, with its sections for Swimming, Netball, Athletics
and Folk Dancing, and the help of the teachers in this direction
is here gratefully acknowledged.