[Report 1969] / School Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council.

  • Staffordshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1969
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Credit: [Report 1969] / School Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A festival of dance in which 350 girls from 12 secondary schools took part was held in Stafford and included 30 items of Creative Dance, Dance Drama, National Folk, Old Time and Latin American dances. Some 40 teachers from county schools were involved. Facilities County standard gymnasia equipment was installed in the following primary school halls:— Biddulph, Oxhey Baldwins Gate Burntwood, Ridgeway Tamworth, Hanbury Farm Leek, Haregate Leek, Blackshaw Moor Leek, Coton Green Leek, Woodcroft Endon Hall Woodseaves, Knightly Stone, Walton Infants Stafford, Berkswich Streetly Infants Chasetown, Glenthorpe Leek, Cheddleton C.E. Tean, St. Thomas’ Gymnasia were equipped at— Great Wyrley Comprehensive School Aldridge, St. Erancis Secondary School Indoor swimming pools were provided at— Walsall Wood Primary School Lichfield, Netherstowe Comprehensive School Swimming Instruction The opening in July of a public indoor swimming pool at Chasetown has greatly improved the facilities for teaching swimming in the Cannock Chase Division. Pools are needed to cater for schools in the Pheasey, Shelfield and Pelsall areas. In Stafford the new indoor pool at the Royal Air Force camp was hired for a short period weekly. Twenty-one public baths and twenty-five school baths were used during the Summer Term and fifteen public and twelve school baths during other terms.