Suggestions for the planning of buildings for public elementary schools.

  • Great Britain. Board of Education.
Date:
1936
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Credit: Suggestions for the planning of buildings for public elementary schools. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    advantages.in a sand pit. This will normally have to be covered and protected when not in use; where possible, it should be filled with sea-shore sand, which is cleaner and easier to dig than river sand. (b) The Infants’ School 17. While increasing numbers of children have the opportunity of coming at an earlier age than five, the majority of children make their first school attendance at this age. It is clear, therefore, that the schools will have the responsibility of providing the type of education most suited to the particular stage of development which the children have reached when they first attend, and that the accommodation should vary in character according to this principle. The suggestions already made in detail on the provision of suitable premises for children attending school at three years can be modified gradually to suit the needs of older children. This broad conception of an Infants’ School as providing suitable environment for the growing potentialities of its pupils has led to the formation in some areas of specially planned rooms for those children who first attend school at the age of five. These Reception Classes should, where possible, be housed in rooms rather larger than the ordinary classroom and should approximate to some extent to the ideals of the Nursery. The type of training in a class of newly admitted children will undoubtedly have many of the characteristics of that given in the Nursery Class, although the special design of offices, lavatory, cloakroom, storage and playground may be adapted to suit the needs of children of five. Asa whole it may be said that the minimum needs of a Reception Class are space; easy access to suitably planned lavatory, offices and cloakroom, and to the play- ground; and equipment with such furniture, toys and apparatus as the age and outlook of the children demand. al