Figure 1.--Many schools have elaborate facilities that can be used during free time. Sometimes the most basic facilities can be very useful. The hard surface play ground with a wall with out windows than can break is often intensely used during free time. It provides the essentials for quite a number of active games. |
Schools are variously equipped for free time activities. Many facilities can be used for both the instructional program and for free time, such as the art room, gymnasium, library, and swimming pool. Other facilities such as a games room, hobbry/model room, and pet hut are primarily for free-time activities. And of course the grounds themselves are a major recreation area. This includes both sports and other outdoor pursuits like fishing. Some facilities like a gymnasium and swimming pool require a substantial investment. But not all facilities are so elaborate. Small boys look forward to building dens in undeveloped woodland.
As much variety as possible is given to recreational pursuits. Apart from the use of te Gymnasium and Five Courts for those boys who wantto exercise, there is a well-stocked Library where boys can go at all free times to read the daily papers, magazines and books. A play room caters for the more noisy type of gasmes; there are table tennis and billiard tables. Boys are encouraged to use their hands for model-making, pottery and other hobbies in a special 60ft. x 20 ft. Recreation Hut. There is also an Art Room where boys can paint in water colour and oils in their spare time as well as in lessons. The value of Dramatics is fully realised and a full-length Play is performed each year, for which there is a stage and essential equipment. Lectures and Films, shown on our own16 mm sound projector, are given on a wide variety of subjects during the Winter terms. There is a colour T.V. which, however, is strictly limited in use to special children';s programmes or items of particular interest, which an be taped on a video casette recorder.
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