No_3_September_and_October__1953 — Page 19

NEW PEAK

JUNIOR SCHOOL

A new junior school was recently opened on the Peak, on the site of the old Peak Club at Plunketts Road. The school is intended for all chil- dren in the surrounding district be- tween the ages of seven and eleven, who can be expected to profit from primary education given entirely in the English language.

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The school provides for the educa- tion of 300 children, and includes among other features, nine general classrooms, a handiwork room, biology room, a combined assembly hall and gymnasium with a stage capable of being converted into a music room, a dining hall and kit- chen, a covered playground, staff rooms, a medical inspection room, an The office, and caretaker's quarters. maximum area of playing field and playground is also incorporated in the design.

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View of school from entrance.

and to the first floor, and a corridor caretaker's quarters. The leading to the ground floor classrooms modation provided on the first floor and cloakrooms.

consists of the remaining five class- rooms, a biology room, two stores and lavatories.

On the ground floor there are nine classrooms, a handiwork room and

The The building is of reinforced con- cloakrooms for boys and girls. assembly hall occupies most of the crete frame construction with rein- lower ground floor, and opens onto a forced concrete floors and roofs. The main entrance to the school is tarmac car-park at the south-west asphalt felt roofing with fibre glass from Plunketts Road, and access to corner of the site; other accommoda- insulation. Outside walls are gener- the school building itself is through tion provided on the lower ground ally brick panelled, and in the case the covered playground into a large floor are an instructor's room, girls' of the stairwells of stone-faced con- entrance hall, conveniently grouped and boys' changing rooms, all with crete. Internal partitions are either about which are the office, the dining shower baths, and various stores and of brickwork or of hollow concrete hall, the staff room, the headmistress' service rooms. A few steps up from blocks. The roof of the covered play- room, the medical inspection room, this floor, and standing quite indepen- ground is supported by steel columns staircases to the lower ground floor dent from the main building are the along its east side.

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Ground floor plan.

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