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Technical School, providing a two-year course of general education and 
special training for certain trades, a regular supply of entrants to those 
trades is assured. Housed at present in the same building there is the 
School of Art and Crafts, with courses closely related to the industrial 
needs of the city and making provision also for esthetic training ; while 
the present arrangements, by which elementary school children who 
show special promise attend classes at the School of Art, are to be developed 
into a Junior Art School. It is also the intention of the Authority to 
provide additional modern accommodation for technical, art, and com- 
mercial education in view of the growing local demand. 
Contributory to this same aim of providing for the needs of industry and 
commerce is a still further side to the work of the Education Committee, 
that of ensuring opportunities to the citizens for the cultural use of leisure ; 
and to this end, not only is there co-operation between that Committee and 
the Public Libraries Committee, but also, at the Literary and Commercial 
Evening Institute, there are classes where commercial subjects, languages, 
and literature can be studied. Junior Institutes, too, receive students 
between the ages of fourteen and sixteen in preparation for the senior 
work. Assistance is granted to the Y.W.C.A. to maintain classes ; and 
by means of grants the Authority also assists the Norwich Musical Com- 
petition Festival and the local branch of the Workers’ Educational Associa- 
tion. Thus is fulfilled the purpose of the Authority to provide a com- 
prehensive educational system to meet the varied needs of a modern 
community. 
So far, little has been said of the provision made for the physical well- 
being of the children, but the Authority is fully alive to the importance of 
physical training and athletics. In consequence, there has been a steady 
increase in the number of playing fields used by the children of the 
elementary schools for football and cricket, netball and hockey, and the 
more recently built schools have been provided from the outset with 
the necessary facilities. Swimming instruction, too, has of late been 
rapidly extended, and more than 3,000 children are under regular 
instruction at the baths. The excellent voluntary work of the Norwich 
Schools Athletic Association encourages the full use of the facilities thus 
provided. Moreover, the school medical service is an integral part of the 
educational system, working through its regular inspections in the 
elementary and secondary schools as well as through its clinics. These 
inspections are more frequent than in most areas, each child being 
examined five times during his school career, instead of the usual three. 
For the education of crippled children unable to attend school there is a 
visitor who attends regularly at their homes ; and for delicate children 
there is a new Open Air School, from which very many are able after 
a period to return to ordinary schools. Care for blind, deaf, defective, 
and epileptic children is also part of this important service. 
Closely related to these health activities is the welfare work of the 
Public Assistance Committee for which the Education Department 
administers children’s homes and the boarding-out of children, organises 
an annual summer camp, and makes arrangements for apprenticeships 
to various trades. Another section of the work of this Department is the 
