TOMORROW IS THEIRS [Main Title]

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Secondary Education in Wartime.

Full description

First half shows the "Emergency Schools" which cater for non-evacuated pupils, combining a town's schools. Laboratory and classroom scenes, as boys are taught chemistry, maths, art, geography, woodwork, PT Wartime changes include women teachers in boys school, and use of erasable blocks to save paper, but film claims communal spirit is still achieved, and academic standards maintained - boys sit School Certificate. Second half shows an evacuated girls' school; country surroundings give new dimension to lessons, and call for practical domestic science work (house decorating, cooking). Girls also shown doing needlework for war effort; secretarial training; and entering shelter trenches in playing field during an air-raid alarm.

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35mm

Object details

Category: Film
Related period: Second World War (content)
Creator: Board of Education (Production sponsor)
Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
Strand (Production company)
Carr, James (Production individual)
Shaw, Alexander (Production individual)
Elton, Arthur (Production individual)
Osbiston, Alan (Production individual)
Groves, Reg (Production individual)
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon (Production cast)
Production date: 1940-12
Place made: GB
Dimensions: whole: Number Of Items/reels/tapes 1
Catalogue number: UKY 241

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