Caldecott Nursery School.
The Caldecott Nursery School opened with twelve children in the premises of the St. Pancras Day Nursery and the St. Pancras Working Girls’ Club on October 23rd, 1911, thanks to the kindness of the Committee of these institutions. Seven of the children were already in attendance at the Day Nursery, five attended the School only. There are now thirty-one children on the register, thirteen of which are children belonging to the Day Nursery.
EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL AIMS.
The School was started partly in the hope that it would help to form the much needed link between the care bestowed on the babies of the neighbourhood, and the teaching and supervision given to the older children in the Council Schools, but chiefly perhaps in the hope that the children might enjoy that instruction which is usually absorbed by the children of the wealthy in their own nurseries and by virtue of their happier surroundings. The teachers have ever before them the desire to awaken in the children that independence of spirit and joyousness of life which alone will give them the power of realising to the fullest extent the possibilities of development within their reach.
Miss P. M. Potter, to whose untiring efforts are due the entire credit and success of the School, has endeavoured to make the whole of her scheme of work subservient to this ideal and judging by the complete freedom and spontaneity of all the children, we feel her aims are being realised.