OPEN-AIR CLASSROOMS
Sir, —I support Mr A. R. Blank’s remarks on the open-air classrooms which the Education Board is erecting. I know the difficulty of convincing people that an open-air classroom nqyst have direct sunlight, unimpeded by a veranda, which simply defeats the whole object—sunlight on the pupils. The Education Department is providing for the Maher’s road School this type of building. If the plans resemble the Fendalton School, then the new classrooms are open-air verandas in and need no further shelter. In Canterbury, with the bitter north-east wind, the open-air school needs to be placed slightly west of north-west. Given this protection from the wind, the plan that provides classrooms open to the sun and air can be used all the year round, and are a joy to the children and teachers alike. If the schools committees would use their influence to place the new schools facing in the right direction they would be doing a very 'valuable service to the children. —Yours, etc., IRIS WOOD. September 17, 1951.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26529, 18 September 1951, Page 5
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