OPEN-AIR SCHOOLS.

Matamata Record, Volume XI, Issue 933, 2 July 1928, Page 4

OPEN-AIR SCHOOLS.

FEND ALTON EXPERIMENT. The idea held in some quarters that open-air schools are too cold for the children in winter time seems to be a mistakeh one. A message from Christchurch states that yesterday being a particularly cold day, Dr. R. B. Phillips, Schools’ Medical Officer, accompanied by a school nurse, inspected the Fendalton Open-air School to ascertain whether, the children were comfortable or not. All the doors were found to be closed and also the windows on three sides. Those which were opened were on the north-east side. >

What little sunshine there was was entering the building and on feeling the hands of the children Dr. Phillips found that the majority were quite warm, more particularly in Standard yi.f with the exception .of one child, who was a sufferer from chilblains. Conditions were so pleasant that in one room the fire had been allowed to go practically out. From another room half the class had been sent to a shelter shed'porch, where more sunshine was available, and were found deeply interested in a discussion com eeming the trials of Caxton and his first printing press. Conditions were waritf Jh every room inspected, f