and cleanliness are so much the foundations of education that without them any method, however perfect, would inevitably fail, and for this reason the Community time-table contains its only compulsory items, washing, teeth-cleaning, and cleanliness inspection.
DINNERS.
By arrangement with the Nursery next door, dinners and teas are provided for the children. A special Benefit Fund is raised for necessitous cases, and the mothers pay what they can for the meals. About 24 children a day, including those who live too far from the School to return, take their dinner there, and tea may occasionally be had for those children who stay on for the evening play hour.
PANSY BARKIS.
The earlier part of the School year was saddened by the sudden death of Pansy Barkis, aged, seven years.
She was one of the first to enter the School, and we feel that we cannot omit some mention of her name in this account of the Community.
She possessed that wisdom and insight with which some rare souls are endowed from their earliest days, and we who knew her will always remember with gratitude her gentle and joyous personality which so much helped us to realise the possibilities of childhood.
The reproduction on the frontispiece of this report is from a small stone figure symbolic of childhood erected in memory of her.