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In the carpenter s shop drawing is combined with mathematical accuracy. The object is first drawn to scale and then made. Here the children learn that every tool has its use, and that to use a tool for a wrong purpose destroys its efficiency. Rabbit hutches, feeding troughs, dolls’ furniture and stage properties, hook-shelves and boxes are some of the things that the children are learning to make. Plain sewing, mending, embroidery, and the use of the sewing machine, all have their place m the weekly routine. Weaving is at an elementary stage at present, hut enough progress has been made to make the children anxious to learn more. For a whole term the handwork of the school centred round the production of a play, The Quest of the Holy Grael.” The altar cloths for the Chapel scenes were woven on the Community’s looms, the Round Table and the throne, the shields and the swords, the cross and the candlesticks, were made m the carpenter’s shop and painted m the studio, the clothes were made and decorated, and the posters and programmes designed by the children. This work provided an opportunity both for co-operation and for individual self-expression which was very valuable.