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The seven senior or non-selective central schools are all mixed, and 

 include one Church of England, one Roman Catholic, and five Council 

 schools. 



The junior schools are organised as follows : — 

 6 Junior mixed only (8 to 11 years). 

 16 Junior mixed with infants (5 to 11 years). 

 10 Infants schools with Std. I. (5 to 8 years). 



Private Adventure Schools. — Schools of this type which formerly 

 played an important part in education have fallen in number from twenty 

 to about half-a-dozen schools. 



Blue Coat and Grey Coat Schools. — Another type of school is found 

 in York in the Blue Coat Charity School, formerly known as the Blue 

 Coat Boys' and Grey Coat Girls' Schools. These schools were estab- 

 lished in 1705 and are controlled by their own trustees and a committee, 

 but are recognised by the Board of Education as efficient and grant- 

 earning. They are chiefly supported by subscriptions and endowments. 

 The boys are housed and educated at St. Anthony's Hall, Peaseholme 

 Green, a building with a long history dating from its erection in the 

 year 1450 by one of the ancient city guilds. It has at different times 

 served a variety of purposes, having been used as a hospital, where the 

 wounded from the battle of Marston Moor were received, a workhouse, 

 playhouse, and prison. 



School Architecture. 



The educational progress in organisation, curriculum, and teaching 

 power has been accompanied by an equal improvement from the archi- 

 tectural point of view. The large solidly-built schools of two storeys 

 which still stand as a monument to the progressive efforts of the School 

 Board forty years ago are not being duplicated in modern school building. 

 The maximum of sunlight and air is now a primary consideration, and 

 the schools recently built conform to this ideal in their design and struc- 

 ture. They are mostly one-storey buildings, and in the Queen Anne 

 Secondary School for Girls (1910) the Knavesmire Council Schools 

 (1916), the Tang Hall Council Schools (1928), and St. Aelred's Roman 

 Catholic School (1932) the process of development is seen. 



The classrooms of the Tang Hall School, which all face south, can be 

 opened out fully on two sides to the air and sunshine, according to the 

 weather conditions. Glass-covered verandahs run along the south side 

 of each classroom. 



The demolition of slum property and the gradual transfer of city 

 dwellers to the suburbs will, no doubt, result in schools being erected in 

 healthy and, if possible, beautiful surroundings. 



It is probable that, in time, many of the old city schools will become 

 obsolete. 



Teaching Staff. 

 A comparison, useful in showing the increased value of the education 

 of the city's children since the formation of the Education Committee 

 under the Act of 1902, is in the quality of the teaching staffs as evidenced 



