§ 21. Major-General Sir Alfred Knoxasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he can now issue instructions for all schools evacuated to reception areas to start work at once?
§ The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education (Mr. Kenneth Lindsay)Local education authorities were informed by the Board on 3rd September 929 that schools in reception areas should be reopened as soon as arrangements for the education of the children evacuated to the locality were completed. It is hoped that schools in such areas which have not already reopened will do so as soon as possible.
§ Sir A. KnoxWill the hon. Member consider the possibility, as a means of affording some small relief to harassed householders, of issuing instructions to teachers to occupy the children by organising games in non-school hours?
§ Mr. LindsayAs far as I have seen, the teachers are doing their best to do this, but I hope that very shortly all schools in the reception areas will be reopened.
§ Sir A. KnoxBut I was asking as to the possibility of arranging something for non-school hours.
§ Mr. LindsayIn a great many cases that has already been done. A great variety of expedients are now being tried by the teachers with a view to making use of these hours. I should like to impress upon the hon. and gallant Member that it is not easy at a moment's notice to provide facilities, but already a great many experiments are being conducted with remarkable success.