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School Hostel. There were 102 borders in the Hostel at the beginning of the school year
1955-56, distributed as follows :—
Attending Secondary School .. 56
Attending Technical School .. 20
Attending Primary School .. 26

The Hostel continued to be the centre of most of the Education Department activities,
such as staff and examination meetings, cinema shows, Education conferences, school parties
and series of lectures by certain members of the staff and by distinguished visitors.

Town Primary and Village Schools. All the existing schools were full to capacity through­
out the school year. It is expected that the new Hedd Primary and Samahij Village Schools
will soon be occupied and will alleviate the pressure in those two areas.
Another village school will have to be built in Arad sooner or later; especially to accom­
modate younger boys who have not the physical strength to cover the distance between their
homes and the Hedd or Samahij Schools, distances of about 2 miles.

The following four village schools are providing, as from the commencement of the new
school term, the full primary course for their students:
1. Khamis School
2. Budaiya School
3. West Rafaa School
4. Sitra School

It is expected that theAali and East Rafaa Schools will soon attain the same level, probably
at the commencement of the school term 1956-57.

General. During the Spring holiday a group of boys from the School Hostel camped for
three days at Dhil’a at the southern end of the middle cultivated northern area of Bahrain
Island. Other young boys of the schools’ scouting formations went into camp at Safra, near
Rafaa, for 6 days.
Sporting events during this period included inter-schools contest and various other games.
Groups of pupils, accompanied by teachers from individual schools visited places of interest
on frequent occasions.

Finance. The amount spent during the year 1955 on boys’ schools, excluding the cost
of new buildings and excluding the Technical education, was Rs. 29,55,378-1-6.
The cost of educating one boy at school in Bahrain for a school year of nine months was
approximately Rs. 400/-.

Girls’ Schools
(Report by Lady Belgrave, Directress of Girls’ Schools)
In the Autumn of 1955 two new girls’ schools were opened. The larger of the two, a
primary school, was built on Palace Road in Quadabiya, with, adjoining it, a three storied
house to accommodate 18 foreign teachers. The school is a fine building with a compound for
recreation and a large hall which can be used for meetings and examinations. In Muharraq a
building which was for many years a club was taken on lease and after some alterations and
additions had been made it was adapted into a good school house. It is situated on the northern
edge of Muharraq town in an area which is rapidly developing as a residential quarter. For
some time the inhabitants of the northern part of Muharraq had been asking that a school
should be opened on their side of the town. At the time it was not possible to build so the
only course to take was to hire a building.