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| Buildings |
The
buildings include a large Gymnasium and Assembly Hall, Science
Laboratory, Workshops for Wood and Metal, Music Rooms, Open-air
Swimming Bath, Boys' Changing Room with hot and cold water
and Shower Baths, Domestic Science Room, and a Centre Library.
The premises are lighted throughout by electricity, and all
the rooms, including the children’s dormitories, are warmed
by hot water pipes. |
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"Girls'
Dormitory" |
| Amalgamation
with Rawdon School. |
During the year
1921, arrangements were made, on the closing of one of our
smaller Friends’ Schools, situated ’at Rawdon near Leeds, to
accommodate 35 more children who were transferred from Rawdon
to Ayton at the beginning of the Autumn Term. This involved
extensive building operations, and many improvements have been
made in our accommodation, at a cost of more than £10,000.
The Headmaster of Rawdon School (A. L. Stapleton, M.A. - a
former member of the Ayton Staff) rejoined as the Housemaster
of Rawdon House, and made a most welcome addition to the Staff. |
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Management
and Staff |
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The School was
inspected by the Board of Education in 1919, and as a result
Ayton has been placed on the Board’s list of Schools recognised
as "efficient Secondary Schools.” Our recognition has
been the means of securing the benefits of the Teachers’ Superannuation
Act for members of the Staff. The control of the School is
in the hands of a Committee consisting of members of the
Society of Friends residing in Durham and Yorkshire, and
three representatives appointed by the Board of Education.
All applications for admittance receive careful consideration,
and satisfactory references (if possible from Friends) are
required.
The Teaching Staff
is a large one 17 are in residence and the Committee makes
every effort to appoint those who not only have high academic
qualifications, but whose influence will help in the right
formation of character and the true development of personality. |
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