The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-09
ENJOY LESSONS IN COOKING AND
 DRESSMAkING
Another Letter in Series From Big Public School
 of Leeds, England.

Fourth of Letters Written
 to Pupils of Waltersville
 School.
 | Another letter ill the. series writer l by pupils of the Cockburn High schoo of Leeds, is presented today. The writer expresses her pleasure in the lessons in cooking and dressmaking and also in the gymnasium. She also tells of the awarding of medals b5 1 of the King and Queen to Leeds:
 Cockburn High School, l Leeds. | November 9th, 1908. Dear Friends:-
 | You are doubtless very eager to hear l abCut our school and town as we were l also very curious to hear what your 1 school and town is like.
 To begin with our school is the larg- est in the city of Leeds. It consists of a great number of rooms including cookery, laundry and dressmaklng rooms To take cookery, laundry and dressmaking lessons is a great source of pleasure to us.
 The school itself is oblong in shape and four stories" high and it's name which is the Cockburn High School is given after MT. Cockburn, who was once the chairman of the Education committee and who is now magis- trate.
 Running round the school are long corridors and those who are strangers to the school would easily get lost. The corridors have windows that look onto the gymnasium roof or "welr' as we call it.
 There are two large halls. the Boys Central hall and the Girls Central hall. The latter we do not use as it belongs to the Secondary Department.
 On Monday and Friday mornings we march down into the Boys Central hall to have prayers. Then MT. interest us about school, sometimes it is about the boys sports and then we cheer and clap the winners. We then march back along the corridors into our different c1assrooms.
 Our hours are from 9 to 12 and from 1:30 to 4. Our classes are seemingly larger than yours, the average being about 50, no boys with girls except in the case Of Standard 8.
 We rave a large gymnasium in which all girls take a delight in the
 
 an hour each lesson. There are bar bells. Indian clubs and dumb bells, al- so all kinds of apparatus. We play the game of basket ball as I hear you do, our class competing against other classes. I think that our boys and girls ought to be proud as I believe they are of their school because we have won so many trophies in foot ball, swimming and running, also sol, orcI,i 1ioI1s T,1 Ayc fo iYo to the Secondary Department free. Our Department is the Elementary for preparing us for the Secondary. We have big boards on the walls of the hall which are full of names of lucky candidates Each boy must wear a cap of the school colours, chocolate and cerise, also we girls must wear a band round our hats of the same colours.
 Every Friday afternoon each girl votes in private for the girl who, has worked the hardest the preceding week and the one who gets the most votes and who has made the greatest inn provement wins a medal which she wears a week. This girl is called a medallist and her name is put on the blackboard along with others. One girl got it and her mother was so proud of her that she had her photo graph taken with the medal on
 
 to a reading lesson of library books, in which we discuss with our teacher, Miss North. about the books. These are one or two Of the lessons and things that we do here t1 our school.
 Our classroom is a fairly large sized room containing 30 desks, a large table and small one. There is 8 small stockroom kept to hold our books, a very large blackboard and adorning "a nj inc from the room are four electric chan deliers. also in the windows on the sills are boxes of plants and cage for stick insects.
 I will try and tell you something 2 bout our town. The chief feature is the town hall.sa number of nice wide steps leading to the entrance. At each corner is the figure of huge lion. The town hall is square in shape and stands on great Corinthian pillars while at the top is a very large clock which can be seen at great distance. Near the hall in front is the monu- ment of our late Queen Victoria which was unveiled not very long ago.
 Not very far away is the City Square with the statue of the Black Prince in the middle while the building of the General Post Office is not far away with tram-carS running past &
 The main streets of Leeds are Boar Lane and Briggate. When the King and Queen came. all these streets were beautifully decorated while about 8 coo school children were asSem bled in the City Square to welcome them The streets were lined with thousands of people and even the shop windows had chairs in them to seat the people, The King afterwards wrote to the Lord Mayor saying that the decorations were the most beautiful he had ever seen. Their Maiesties seemed very pleased to see the gathering of the children. I am afraid that I have not time to write any more so I will bring my letter to close. Hoping to hear further from you
 From Your Friend