In the earlier days of the School there was perhaps more definite instruction, but this has gradually given place to individual rather than collective effort on the part of the children, and Miss P. M. Potter has increasingly realised to what an unlooked for extent the teacher of young chidren must become a passive rather than an active agent. No one recognised "system" has been adopted.
Miss P. M. Potter has been assisted on many occasions by the following friends: — Miss Beaumont, Miss E. Crowdy, Miss I. Donaldson, Miss N. Danvers-Ellis, Miss E. Hammond, Miss D. Lester, Miss Macdonald, Miss M. Olsson, Miss R. Harrison Rowson and Miss V. Walker. Our grateful thanks are due to them. We render special thanks to Miss R. Harrison Rowson who has worked with us daily since Easter.
MEDICAL INSPECTION.
Miss Lepper, M.D., has kindly attended the School once a term. She has inspected all the children and has re-examined ten of them. Any child found by her to be needing medical treatment has been referred to Dr. Fleming at the New Hospital. Euston Road.
COUNTRY HOLIDAYS.
Several of the children have been sent during the summer to Miss Rendel's Cottage Home at Charlwood, Surrey, and to Mrs. W. Rendel's Convalescent Home at Crowborough. It is hoped that a few more will still be able to go away before the winter.
PARENTS' MEETING.
A most successful Mothers' Meeting was held in July. Tea and refreshments were provided by the Matron of the Day Nursery and Miss P. M. Potter, and Miss L. M. Rendel addressed the mothers on the subject of co-operation with the aims and methods of the School and outlined the future schemes of the School. The mothers afterwards sang many of their children’s songs, parts of which they had previously gleaned from the children themselves!