We were delighted and grateful that on Thursday, January I gth, 1939, the Director of Education, Sir Percy Meadon, M.A., C.B.E., was able to find time from his many duties to visit the School and perform the ceremony of opening the extensions.

After speaking to a good gathering of parents and friends in the Hall, the Director proceeded to the new buildings to cut the ribbon across the entrance corridor, and the public were allowed to move about freely examining the rooms. Tea was served in the new Physics Laboratory and parties of parents were conducted round the school by senior boys.
In the Art Room an exhibition of art and handicraft was to be seen, and many interesting experiments could be inspected in the Chemistry Laboratory. The whole proceedings were less formal than usual, and it was good to see the Director moving about amongst the guests, chatting freely to them.

A description of the new rooms, which have already proved their value to the school, is given below.

DESCRIPTION OF THE EXTENSIONS.
The new buildings have been designed to form the beginning of a second quadrangle at the eastern end of the school and provide the following accommodation :

PHYSICS LABORATORY. — This replaces the former laboratory, which, reduced in size, has now been converted into a senior laboratory. The new room gives good facilities for a full form of boys, is fitted with gas, water and low-tension current on every bench and has adjoining it a dark-room where special experiments and minor repairs can be carried out.

GEOGRAPHY ROOM. — This room is equipped for 32 pupils and is fitted with projection screen, map rail, specimen cases and extensive display boards.

LIBRARY. — There is shelf-room for over 2000 books, most of which may be borrowed for home-use, and 36 boys can be accommodated for reading in the library.

CHANGING-ROOM. — The old library has been converted into a second changing-room, equipped with hot-water shower-baths.

GAMES EQUIPMENT STORE. — This provides much needed room for our games equipment, which has hitherto taken up space intended for bicycles. In front, facing the cricket-field, is a verandah from which the school matches may be watched.