EXTRA ROOMS

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31676, 11 May 1968, Page 22

EXTRA ROOMS

School Needs Listed

Higher priority for sixthform study rooms, musicpractice rooms, projection rooms, and teachers’ interviewing rooms was urged at the secondary school boards’ conference by Mr A J. Sandom.

He was presenting a group of remits for the Annul and Burnside High Schools.

Mr sandom said that ordinary classrooms were reasonably adequate but there was a lamentable lack of special rooms.

Sixth forms taking different options had special requirements; the single-subject school certificate would present similar needs; the growth of instrumental music in schools needed provision; and teachers had growing need to interview pupils and there was no room available, said Mr Sandom.

Mr F. N. Wylde, District Senior Inspector of Secondary Schools, Mid that recent schools were still based on 1958 plans. Needs had changed since then. The Education Department was doing an exercise on the planning changes necessary. The conference supported proposals, with minor modifications in wording, but deleted interviewing rooms as being of low priority. Faster procedures in authorising new buildings and temporary classrooms the Mme size as standard classrooms were urged by the conference.