CLYDE QUAY SCHOOL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 290, 3 September 1919, Page 5

CLYDE QUAY SCHOOL

ENLARGEMENT NECESSARY. The Clyde Quay Sohool Committee, at its meeting oil lionOay nigllt, considered the question of th» overcrowding of tho school, There has, been n eteadnySTncreasing demand for admission to tho echool, and the position, io .now acute The committee has made representations to the Education Board regarding additions, and these will be considered by Um board at its next meeting. In the meantinip. an effort ts to be made, to fina ncrammodation for two classes uomewh-ire in the immediate vicinity of the school. To show how crowded the infant school at Clyde Quay ie, it is stated that on tho Kducation Department's area basis of 12 square feel , for oacli child in 'i oJass-ro.'Ui, the infant department should accommodate 208 children, but there are. ftb tho present time 288 on the roll. In ono class-room there should be only UK desks where 35 desks are being tilled, and in another there should be 2(1 desks where there aro 31—facts which prove conclusively that ejtra t>lasa-room» rnunl be provided if the health requirements (as Jaid down by the Pepanmcnr) are to be fulfilled. Apart from making temporary arrange* ttieiits as abovu to prevent gross over* crowding—some tf the teachers J>avO over 70 pupils in their classes—the com-, mitten is submitting a scheme t<i tin, board for building practically over the whole of the Gcliool grounds on the south side of tho roain school building, the to be on n level with the floor of the existing ones, and the flpaco below (in no place less than 7ft. in height) to. be utilised as- shelter sheds ond.ifor playing space, in wet weather.