?To Grow the Children in the Open Air? - School of Arts and ...

Correspondence ref Broadstairs
Residential Open Air School
April 1954
• “ In other days it was .. The recognised practice …to keep all the windows
of the school rooms wide open no matter what the outside temperature.
This caused the temperature of the whole building to be uncomfortably
low, and we are advised it is no longer necessary to the same extent as
before. We feel it would not be unreasonable to keep the school
classrooms at a reasonable temperature but quite clearly they must be
properly ventilated…..it does seem to us nowadays not unreasonable and
a little old fashioned, that children and teachers should sit in classrooms
with their overcoats on. At the same time we of course fully realise the
need for these children to have as much fresh air as possible”