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Coogee Public School Pavilion Classroom

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

• beachcomber australia said:

  
  PAVILION CLASS-ROOMS.
  
  What appears to be a solution at last of the old problem of adequate ventilation of class-rooms in the summer months is at present being tried In the schools at Coogee and Petersham. The solution is a room open on three sides, which can be screened, if necessary by canvas blinds, Everybody doubtless retains an unpleasant memory of the hours spent in inky school-rooms, amid an over-carbonised atmosphere, with half-a dozen blue-bottles buzzing madly against the window panes, and the pen slithering in one's perspiring fingers, and the idea of the children in future sitting in a veritable bath of fresh air is distinctly pleasing. How far, however, the children's attention is likely to be distracted under the new conditions remains to he seen. The new class-rooms can be built at low cost, and though those now in use were merely erected temporarily, they seem likely to prove the forerunners of a minor evolution in school architecture.
  

  
  
  From SMH 4/11/1913 p.4 - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/15462888

• beachcomber australia said:

  Eggnitioning 1913 style !

• pellethepoet said:

  beachcomber australia Great newspaper fragment! I've seen photos of children being educated outside even in winter as a response to perceived unhealthy stuffy classrooms -
  - no doubt the pedagogues also considered it character building!

• Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:

  pellethepoet Brrrrrr... they look freezing!