THE OPEN-AIR SCHOOL.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19258, 13 March 1928, Page 13

THE OPEN-AIR SCHOOL.

A r^TlN G 0F ™ LEAGUE. ADDRESS. ««al 'meeting of the Open-Air *Xx/» was held last cvcniug ' j** . a ] arg e attendance of memlantern lecture on fr Schools in England' 1 i*T. t | T returned from a visit to Scotland. Moving the adoption of the frfSart, lWessor Shells*; stated work had been done by throughout the year. He * the Fendalton type of opcii-<*&om-to another type winch « rC n«l tho Temuka schoolroom. Ktine he stated, was more costly, fttfnoi provide the same facilities Heather type- In a closed room WJL did not have that feeling of Wgr an d thus did not understand ■pSfasons in terms of activity. It - L extremely important that the '%!*n should have free access to tne ffir The real point of attack to H**ai-air type of classroom was the EtftX parents did not see the con- & under,which the children were qL If people would enquire into of schools that were being 'fit and would visit them when being S j great amount of good would \»annual report stated:—Enquiries 4j« been received from various parts £V country regarding the advisaK o f erecting this type of classy in preference to the old type. iCeti are constantly received for Etague to send a representative to S certain districts and. give firstly information, and the members of Executive have been most generous Snoring of their time and energy Cjcceding to the requests where'posu(j. That the movement is growing, liown by the fact that a school, jyj on the lines advocated by the leimec.is.'to be erected immediately at Jfoftra, and will lie the first school of ijtjikind in the North Island. TII3 focfond National Council of Women Ib interesting itself in the movement, has been set up to iUOjM paMic opinion .in Auckland, dflew possible, the executive of tho league-find out where new schools are .sealed, and efforts are made to get : jtto touch with the school committees. The league has been somewhat ■laaped/in'this, by the difficulty of Ending out where new schools were to *e'iuiltj and have consequently been jumble to give as much assistance to m Board as could have been wished. Isjently :Some modifications of the jFeMaltott; open-air schoolrooms have ibetebmft,?' nbtably at Mt. Pleasant. ; the open side is done 'W^K^W its place taken by This is called the iTemuks type of schoolroom, but is the executive. It 's ;gratirying!:to : ;know. that wherever the Jendalton tyie of classrooms have been .established, both parents and teachers ;bavenothingbut'praise for them. Tho executive look ; forward to a new year of increasing activity, and they askthat of the League will their friendsjin vth£ open-air schools movethe benefit of the child—the?tihw&uld and nothing >S;;S : :

The. report /was s^6pt&^, Tfofollowingofficers xwere elected:— i President,; Profes»r/J;j6helley; execu- , .♦jre, mMemymts'T:. E. Taylor, '-'&*. A. C. Cottrell, % h w -- »<&«•. W. '■ V. Bevan Tj 2'i'irJ [cTnt y re ' A. B. O'Brien, JM«stal]hThomas; hon. secretary, TOj._S.Dawe; hon. treasurer, Miss "IBli' "• PhUUppß ' Address. to accuse the parents in AflETOlland of neglecting their childthe homes, but in the :.«<W|j)Baid Dr. Phillipps. "They I™™*!* children to schooL and think is finished, but 1 ."•ntam; that it is not. Parents do *go?to the householders' meetings M..Mlecfc. : :the proper people to the jjM committees. People should not 'Jfji an y° ne ' will do—what is W&Wd,ls someone • who will take an watin the school. The committee {Mud also realise what a serious mat-

t-»:#-P.\Mi electing a member to the \ yp<*m Board. I have heard of one fan who was on an Education-Board '.■&'»' years.. I maintain that he couid ; S 1 ??* ad an interest in the Board's 'Oft.,? In : the Education Act there is y Paragraph which states that the coma ge for children to attend MooI;ib seven years, not five. I can •IT '*? t^ie • y6a * ex P er i enc e that .iJjiTO had that anyone sending a child at the age of five is doing ;'fl» child a definite injury. Life is not ':£jj° n ß that one can afford to waste W. -years in school. I have read that '•vWwho attends school at the age '< seven years advances just as well as i-j'iij - wn<> attends at the age of V. I .'ideal, he continued, was not w a big building, but smaller woites surrounded with gardens, wioolroom and playground should be S. v l ®; In th 6 schools he saw in *fml .and Scotland, there was the Wiiof ventilation into the open air, w into, corridors or classrooms. In :*M school, there were not windows •S* 6 "j de on,y ' m,t on three sidest ~5. Bade each classroom a separate r'*ag. Another thing that had to t; n ■ ? a in *° account was the direc--5?« the prevailing winds. The ;rauff»ing was the directional frequency innd, as recorded in Christ«.during the past twelve years:— days, north-east 1439 days, S* *0 days, south-east 36 (lavs, south ! 1»W south-west 1482 dnvs, west Sl»fe, north-west 315 days, and 2™»f .days. Therefore, it would be ■5? that in Christchurch, the open "to would have to face the north-west Question of "cold" had been.rais- : of "cold" did not depend «Tiv h? temperature of the air, but •'.Jjjy Wte-at which the body was |J""W- In the Fendalton type of class"latter what wav the wind 'ViL? ' g " jt could bc kept out by VoSm* 0 - 0 * w indows. Taking a given 'ttoSri' 0 * water and making it pass a wide pipe, it would flow ftttiv!" 1 ! by tno same pressure force flow •«* a nozzle, the water would 'ibs;s? a greater force. That also f ft mnd ' and tho difference besecond example and the Ws*» 3 tne difference between a tfftSL* 1 ?,? draught. A point that thjT*y children a great deal was that tu e > and classroom were *hich *• er P° int ,vas that of noise ' '%* !ri P rac t'eally eliminated in :i*3fftothat was beneficial. Childtoo much of the heat of cooi "«[ ? s ,on g as thev were kept of the sun would do ftteteTii!" i The amount of sun that ""MM 6 , v was governed by the >(^ji>a.■ c! °thing worn. Attempts fcjSfKWrmnde at some schools m minimise, as far as pos#tßhlifr; an ? ount of clothing worn v^VfSS^rareri. thanks, moved hv Mr A. '•vi**?!*'--* BB passed to the lecturer.