§ 25. Mr. R. Morganasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether arrangements can be made to ensure that pupils attending schools in reception areas for half a day only shall participate in the further educational activities which take place outside the school premises during the other half of the day?
Mr. LindsayYes, Sir. It is open to a local education authority under Article 21 {a) of the Code to ask His Majesty's Inspector to approve general arrangements under which certain activities which are to be included in the school time-table are held elsewhere than on the school premises. This is being done in a number of cases and a full-day school time-table thereby provided. My Noble Friend hopes that such arrangements will be made wherever circumstances permit.
§ Mr. EdeWould it be sufficient to have in the time-table the entry "out-of-school activities" or "extra-mural studies"? Is it not difficult to devise a more elaborate time-table beforehand owing to the vagaries of the British climate?
Mr. LindsayI quite agree with the hon. Gentleman, but I have seen excellent 1012 time-tables made out in the countryside, and I think there is a reasonable give and take between His Majesty's inspectors and the schools.