LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL TUESDAY, 23RD JULY, 1957, AT 3 P.M .

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PROGRAMME OF THE CEREMONIAL OPENING OF

KYNASTON SCHOOL MAl\LBOROUGH HILL, ST. JOHN'S WOOD, N.W.8

BY DR. P. S. NOBLE, M.A. PRINCIPAL OF KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON

J H&QI.A.IR: MR. HAROLD C. SHEARMAN, M.A.

OF THE EDUCATION COMMITTEE

OR Dl:R OF f'RO<.:t::f-J>I ~(,S

2.15 p.m. Dr. P. s. Noble, M.A., will be welcomed by the Cluiirman of. the Educ..tion Committee, Mr. Harold C. Shearman, M.A., and the Mayor of St. Marylebone, Councillor John E. Guest, J.P.

The Chairman of the Educlltion Committee will introduce leading Members of the Council and other guests; a short tour of the school will then follow.

Parents and other guests will be directed to their seats in the hall a!> they arrive.

2.SS p.m. Dr. Noble will be escorted to the hall and take his scat on the platform.

3.00 p.m. The Chairman of the Education Committee will welcome the gue!>ls.

Dr. Noble, after being introduced by the Chairman, will address the company and formally declare the new school open.

The Chairman of the Governors, Mr. Ewan P. Wallis Jones, M.A., LL.B., will speak.

A vote of thanks will be proposed by Mrs. M. Griffith Vice-Chairman of the Education Committee, and seconded by Sir Louis Gluckst;in, T.D., Q .C., D.L.

The Headmaster will speak and thereafter a short programme of songs will be given by some of the pupils as follows:-

.. Linden Lea " Vaughan Williams

"Skye Boat Song " . . Traditional

" Bist du Bei Mir " . . Bach

" Let us now praise famous men " Vaughan Wil/ia,m

THE NATIONAL ANTHEM

Ghuest1s ~eated in the main body_ of the hall are asked to remain in their seats until

t e P at,orm party and the pupils have left the hall.

Z:~;n"J~h~f !~~;~f.ff ':!a:~~u~~o~r3~~hs_eb~:?r pupil~ wdill be plea~ed to dir~t guests the last page. t • ions an emonstrattons are given on

Tea will be served

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NOTES ON THE SCHOOL

Kyna ton School, opened in September, 1956. with 560 boy on the roll, has accommodation for 8 10. The staff compri e the Head ma ter. the Deputy Headmaster and 3 I a sistant masters, some of whom ha, e had experience in industry.

The chool offer cour es complementa ry to tho e provided in the Quintin School, a voluntary controlled Gramma r School on the same ite. They cater for a wide ra nge of abilities. Boy can proceed to the

G.C.E. Examina tion a t both '"A .. a nd " 0 " levels and thus qualify for admis ion to a sandwich course a t a technical college or to a student­apprenticeship. In addition there a re course Ieadi~g to the 1st year

a tional Certificate in Mechanica l and Electrical Engineering a nd fo r boy a iming at craft apprenticeships, there is a I st year Worksho ps Engineering course of the City and Gui lds Institute. Boys are helped to discover the true bent of their abilities by practice in the workshop . They receive a good general education in an a tmosphere of serious at tention to their possible work in industry. A ll boy should be able to begin their careers with the knowledge that their cour e have provided them with well-grounded and well-balanced education.

. Considera?le importance is a ttached to the val ue of a good foundation 1~ craftsmanship. Work in the shops is planned to develop sk ill to the highest level and to bring out qualities of imagination and re ource.

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.., . Boys should lea,c school with '>Orne in .. ight and under ,tanding of the attitude of the craft-.man.

An important feature of the curriculum i'> a cour'><! of remcd.al education fo r boy<, in need of specific treatment.

All form'> in the fir-,t three years pursue a general co ur....: of ,t O f

in Divinity. Engli'>h. mathematic-,, history, geograph, . mu .. ic. art . ..cience. physica l ed ucation, Y.OodY.ork and metalwork with French for '>Orne of the forms in each year. At the end of the third year the progre<>'> of each boy is considered at a <,erie., of planned a.,-,e.,.,ment conference-. under the chairmanship of the Deputy Headma-.tc:r. The confere~ are a ttended by the master who know the bo~ be-.t. Their purpose is to put the collective experience of the staff at the di-,po..al of the parents. a nd the boy at a subsequent interview with the Headma.,ter. "hen the broad outline of the boy's future education is agreed. Sim ila r confere~ for ,·ocational guidance purposes are held during the bo, ·s la t year a t ..cnoo!.

T hi guidance programme is an important feature in the hfe of th~ chool. It is useful to asse s a t intenal a bo~ ·., potenuaht~ and

achievement: to know what educational ambition he has . . .,, hat he thinks of himself as a learner and what are his ,iew of himself in the chool world . A personal interest is taken in each boy by his Form

ma ter in particular and a tutorial period each Y.ee i gi,·en o, er to conduct the •· family ·· business of the form. The aim of the guidance programme i to foster the growing self-respon ibilit~ of each boy.

T he school aims at being a community of " hich e, e~· boy can fed that he is an active and re pon ible member. Prefect-- make an out­standing contribution to the comm unit, . After inten i, e trainme for at least a term a ub-prefect . they learn t~ sene rather than to rule.~"' nme the co-operat ion of the boy- through understandine. tolerance and a hie.h level of beha,·iour on their own part. - -

T he centra lly placed libran i· fa t becoming the focus of the \\ Ork and life of the chool: conside~ble u e i- beine -made of it. no t onlv in connection with school work but with out-of: hool interests. as ~-ell. The chool ha the pan-time services of a profes_ional librarian.

Phy ica l Education i a flourishing part of the curriculum. The school has been well repre ented by teams at rugby. association foo tball. S\\i m­ming, hockey, badminton. boxing and cricket. Besides mam local geographical and histo rical e cur ions, there has been a hool j0 urne, to o rth Wales at Ea ter and there will be another to Brittanv in :\ugu {. There are ery many e ening clubs, groups and societies.· Furniture ma king i probably the most popula r after- chool acti, it, . The stage is used by drama groups each evening of the week. · -

The chool uniform is worn by e ery boy. Parents are most co­operative and a Parent-Teacher A ocia tion ha been formed

NOTES ON THE BUTLDINGS

The Kynaston School provides about 800 places and consists of a four-storey teaching block which contains form rooms, specialist rooms for geography, history, art and technical drawing, the library and staff accommodation. Workshops are situated in a single-storey building adjoining the main teaching unit, so that the transmission of noise is re ­duced to a minimum; this wing contains eight workshops, together with two gymnasia with showers and changing rooms. The science laboratories are situated on the first floor in a separate unit with covered play space beneath and these together with the Assembly Hall and the dining foyer form an enclosed courtyard garden with the main teaching block as the north boundary. The kitchen facilities at ground floor level are shared with the Quintin School adjoining, and the Assembly Hall can be combined with the Quintin Assembly Hall.

The buildings have been planned to make the greatest possible use of the steep fall in the site and provide pleasant enclosed areas. A large hard playground is provided, together with lawns and garden areas.

The architects of the new building were Edward D. Mills and Partners and the general contractors were Halse & Sons, Ltd. The Council's Chief Engineer acted as consultant for the electrical services and Bridg­water and Shepheard, landscape consultants, were responsible for the site layout.

The school, together with the adjoining Quintin School, was built at an inclusive cost, at tender stage, of about £440,000, including fees and incidentals. The cost attributable to Kynaston School was about £255,000, while the cost of furniture and equipment was about £17,000. The cost per place on the Ministry of Education's standard was about £250.