OPEN-AIR SCHOOLS
In the Buildings Committee's report to the Canterbury Education. Boaid last week it was recommended that the board should apply to the Department for a grant of £650 for the erection of open-air class-rooms at "Waimataitai Sohool, Timaru. The board adopted the proposal, and if the Department is agreeable an interesting experiment will bo carried out. This will be the building of an open-air school. The plans provide for the erection of a building, containing two rooms, each 20ft. .by 20ft.,_ and each to > accommodate about thirty pupils. The building is to be of wood, with two end walls like those of an ordinary school,, while the two side walls will be coni- ■ posed of French windows, necessarily all of glass, in the proportion of 4ft. of French window to 2ft. of wall. In fine weather all the doors on ; hotli gides or on one side only can be open, giving ventilation from the floor, up. In unfavourable weather the doors can be closed and the. rooms used as ordinary class-rooms. The plan is in its essentials the work of Dr. Eleanor Baker, medical inspector of schools, and a Blenheim architect, Mid it has the warm approval of the inspectorate.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3051, 12 April 1917, Page 6
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202OPEN-AIR SCHOOLS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3051, 12 April 1917, Page 6
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