Amateur film that records activities at the Ralph Gardner High School in North Shields. Schoolboys take part in cookery and dancing lessons and work on sailing boat repairs. The film includes footage of Christmas decoration preparations and dining hall scenes. Boys participate in a cookery or home economics lesson. Each boy wears a white apron over his school uniform. They all stand around a large wooden table. Naming the school boat: A wooden sailing boat is being repaired and painted in...

Amateur film that records activities at the Ralph Gardner High School in North Shields. Schoolboys take part in cookery and dancing lessons and work on sailing boat repairs. The film includes footage of Christmas decoration preparations and dining hall scenes. Boys participate in a cookery or home economics lesson. Each boy wears a white apron over his school uniform. They all stand around a large wooden table. Naming the school boat: A wooden sailing boat is being repaired and painted in the school yard. Close-up of a hand and paintbrush working paint into the joins of the woodwork. A group of schoolboys work around the boat: some are painting, others are preparing the oars and buoys. A group of adults, perhaps schoolmasters, inspect the vessel, which now has its sails hoisted. A name panel is fixed to the stern of the vessel by one of the adults. Christmas Bazaar: An exhibition is on display in the school hall. There are lamps and light fittings, posters, pots and vases. A wide shot from one end of the hall reveals a huge cut-out “MERRY CHRISTMAS” banner, and an array of streamers and Christmas decorations hanging from the hall ceiling. A group of schoolboys files into the hall to look at the work. The camera follows them about the room as they inspect the various tables. Dancing Lessons: In a gym or school hall building, schoolboys practise their dancing. As the boys dance with each other in couples, the schoolmaster twirls nonchalantly in the centre. School Dinner: Boys file into a dining room, and have their hands inspected by a schoolmaster; one of the lads is pulled back by the hand so the master can have a closer look. The dining room is full of children eating and talking.