An appeals film produced by Northumbria Films for students of King's College, the Newcastle division of Durham University, encouraging them to offer monies collected during their rag week of October 1953 to the recently opened Percy Hedley School. Title: Northumbria Films present Title: The New School At Newcastle Central Station a large crowd of passengers stand on the platform as a steam locomotive pulls in. A young family climbs aboard. The mother looks out of the window and the...

An appeals film produced by Northumbria Films for students of King's College, the Newcastle division of Durham University, encouraging them to offer monies collected during their rag week of October 1953 to the recently opened Percy Hedley School. Title: Northumbria Films present Title: The New School At Newcastle Central Station a large crowd of passengers stand on the platform as a steam locomotive pulls in. A young family climbs aboard. The mother looks out of the window and the image fades to that of a young boy laying on a bed or cot in a room surrounded by other children also laying down. A general view of the exterior of a modern school building at Percy Hedley. Inside the classroom, a number of children sit at their desks as the female teacher stands at the blackboard speaking to the class. She comes over, kneels down, and helps two of the children with their work. A young boy writes with difficulty in an exercise book. In a treatment room, a Speech Therapist helps a young boy blow into a tube causing the liquid in the glass bottle beside them to rise through a glass tube. She helps him with his speech using a wooden utensil. Outside two women watch over the children as they play. Four of the children are rocking happily on metal seesaws, one of the women is helping to push. Nearby a boy sits on a mat while nearby on tables beside the classroom three girls splash in a box filled with water. At another table, a boy and girl play in a box full of sand. In another treatment room, a young girl lays on her side assisted by a female Physiotherapist. The woman assists the girl to move her leg muscles in a kneeling position. Back in the classroom, the children eat a meal at their desks now covered with chequered cloths. Following their meal the children play, one boy rocking in a metal seesaw while a girl plays with a dollhouse. Sitting at a table a boy plays with a spinning top. Outside a young woman walks along a garden path towards a large ivy-covered house. Out of the building comes an older woman who is helping a young boy walk. The young woman appears and she and the boy walk off together. The film ends with the older woman going back inside the house and closing the door. Title: King’s College Rag Week Appeal October 1953. Please give generously.