the school is intended to replace playing field for team games and ter separating it from the entrance the Kennedy Road Junior School, other sports, while the school is hall. Both the headmistress's at present accommodated in a con- being built on the two lower por- room and the medical inspection verted house, a necessary but very tions. unsatisfactory compromise.
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room will have their own bath- The existing terraces largely toilets, while the inedical room rooms, fitted with wash-basins and determined the siting and layout will also have plenty of cupboard toilets, while the medical room of the building, which was plan- and shelf space, a large sink, and ned to take the fullest advantage a couch for the examination of the of them and the existing retaining children. walls, so as to reduce the cost of site formation to a minimum. Planning
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The site is a large irregular shaped piece of land. located at the south-east corner of the junc- tion of Plunketts Road and Plan-
The staff room will have tation Road in a residential dis-
flower-box beneath its north win- trict on the Peak. It lies in a
dow, which will overlook both the valley, which looks out over the The main entrance to the school covered and the
covered and the open-air play- sea in a south-westerly direction. will be
be from Plunketts Road, grounds and so allow the teachers The surroundings are very plea- where there will be a large turn- to keep a careful watch on the sant wooded hills; the school will ing circle and temporary parking youngsters while they are at play. be reasonably near the Peak Tram place for dropping and picking up The staff room will be fitted with Station and central for the Peak passengers, without interfering a large closet and a bathroom district. The land already belong- with normal traffic. Access to the complete with shower. ed to Government, and site forma- school building itself will be tion was already in existence to through the covered playground The dining room will be 21'0" by form an area large enough for the into a big entrance hall, 316" by 39'6" and will overlook part of the proposed school.
18'0", which will have on its north covered playground, to which it wall a large teak framed board for will have access by three sets of The site was originally extreme- the posting of school notices. Con- folding doors; there will also be a ly hilly and divided into four ter- veniently grouped about the en- door from the dining hall to the races, with a difference in levels trance hall will be the office, the entrance hall, but this will nor- between the upper and lower ter- dining hall, the staff room, the mally be kept locked. There will races of 60'0". When occupied by headmistress's room, the medical be seating accommodation for 100 the Peak Club, the lowest level
inspection room, staircases to the children, and it will be possible to was used as a car-park, the next lower ground floor and to the first serve them with hot lunches from level contained the Club buildings, floor, and a corridor leading to the the well equipped kitchen. Service and the two upper levels were laid ground floor classrooms and cloak- of meals will be by means of a counter. Leading off the kitchen will be the cooks' room with its The office will have a teak coun- own bathroom.
out as tennis courts. The two up- per portions are being reduced to one level to form one large turfed
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