114 SCIENTIFIC SURVEY OF BLACKPOOL AND DISTRICT 



In the Palatine Central Girls' School there are also two parallel courses 

 available after the first two years in the school. There is a Commercial 

 Course, similar to that for the boys. There is also a special Domestic Course 

 for girls from 13 to 15 or 16, including cookery, laundry, dressmaking, 

 millinery, and various Domestic Arts and Crafts. 



For the centrally-situated Senior (or Modern) Schools, in the boys' schools, 

 a practical education is given to train the boys to be handy men and to be 

 adaptable. In the girls' schools, the life and health and work of the home is 

 the basis of the instruction. 



Household Economics is the central subject of the curriculum for the girls, 

 other subjects being taught with special reference to their bearing on this 

 subject, e.g., ' Geography ' may deal with the places from which the various 

 materials required in the house are obtained, whether for food or clothing or 

 cleaning, and with parts of the Empire, to which girls may usefully emigrate ; 

 ' Arithmetic ' may deal with costs of materials, or articles required for furnishing 

 the home, for food, for clothing, or cleaning (e.g., cost of a dress or hat made 

 by a girl), rent and rates calculations, insurance payments (for sickness or 

 other misfortune), also household accounts should be included (e.g., weekly 

 budget of house). ' Drawing ' may be taught in connection with handwork, 

 whether garment-making, millinery, or work in domestic arts and crafts. 

 Simple lessons in appreciation of form and colour may be included. 



History and Literature may be taught, so as to give an interest in the life of 

 the community, thus preparing for the wise use of leisure. Girls should be 

 encouraged not only to read, but to understand and talk about happenings in 

 the world around, so that they may be better prepared to take part in civic 

 life as well as home life. 



Household Economics may be taken to include : — 



(a) Elementary Human Physiology and Hygiene, including the care of 

 infants and sick nursing. 



(b) Chemistry and Physics of the household, including common materials 

 used in the household for cleaning and other purposes, heating and 

 lighting of the house, comparative warmth-retaining properties of 

 clothing materials, relative food values, methods of food preservation 

 (curing, pickling, bottling). 



(c) Household management : Planning out the work of the house, 

 cleaning, practical cookery, practical laundry. 



(d) Household arithmetic and accounts. 



(e) Varied forms of handwork : needlework, millinery, soft furnishings, 

 arts and crafts in the home. 



Evening Institutes. 



Evening Institutes are provided to afford young people an opportunity of 

 continuing their education after leaving the day schools. Graduated courses 

 of instruction, extending over two years lead up to the examinations of the 

 Union of Lancashire and Cheshire Institutes, and prepare for more advanced 

 work at the Technical College or at the Palatine Central Commercial and 

 Domestic Evening Institute. 



