SCHOOL FOR "WATER GIPSIES."—The problem of how the children of canal bargemen are to learn their ABC's has been engaging the attention of British educators for some years. These pupils, who spend their lives travelling the waterways of England, present a very special tutorial problem. One of the answers is a school at Southall, Middlesex, established in a converted canal boat, where the children can attend at odd times. They learn their readin', writin', and 'rithmetic from Miss Dyer, the school mistress, who knows all the answers to the problems of teaching a floating child population. The schoolroom in the boat's main cabin holds accommodation for 40 pupils. It has everything necessary for basic educational needs, and also provides facilities for the teaching of more unorthodox subjects such as handicrafts-a very popular subject with canal children.

Evening Star, Issue 25678, 29 December 1945, Page 8

SCHOOL FOR "WATER GIPSIES."—The problem of how the children of canal bargemen are to learn their ABC's has been engaging the attention of British educators for some years. These pupils, who spend their lives travelling the waterways of England, present a very special tutorial problem. One of the answers is a school at Southall, Middlesex, established in a converted canal boat, where the children can attend at odd times. They learn their readin', writin', and 'rithmetic from Miss Dyer, the school mistress, who knows all the answers to the problems of teaching a floating child population. The schoolroom in the boat's main cabin holds accommodation for 40 pupils. It has everything necessary for basic educational needs, and also provides facilities for the teaching of more unorthodox subjects such as handicrafts-a very popular subject with canal children.