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Balham Training Centre fur Adult Girls
A very successful laundry is now being run at this centre. The
girls do the laundry work for their own centre, as well as for
Wandsworth Training School. They also undertake the laundry for
some Child Health Clinics. The standard of work is extremely
high and the girls are very proud of their achievements.
A very high standard has also been attained in cookery. Many
mothers are now ordering their Christmas cakes, jams, marmalades
and pickles from the centre, which also prepares the refreshments
for any special gatherings at Wandsworth Training School. Here
again the trainees are deservedly proud of their work. Many
mothers have told the staff how delighted they are as their
daughters are doing quite skilled cooking at home.
At a very successful Open Day all articles exhibited were sold
to parents and friends attending the Centre. The standard of dressmaking
and craft work is extremely high and the centre has no difficulty
in selling all the articles it produces. Orders for stools have
been received from Canada and America.
Both the trainees and the staff enjoyed an outing to Kew Gardens
and they also attended a School Leavers' Exhibition run at Wandsworth
Town Hall.
Newlands Training Centre
The extra room which has now been obtained for use as storage
for industrial work has enabled the centre to accept larger orders.
One of the firms supplying industrial work is so pleased with the
high standards achieved by the centre that they are proposing to
offer more advanced and difficult work.
The television set which was very kindly supplied by the Wandsworth
Society for Mentally Handicapped Children for a trial period
at the Centre proved to be a most successful experiment and the
television is now being hired by the Health Committee on a
permanent basis.
Contact was made with the Children's Librarian in the Borough,
as a result of which a stock of books is being held at the centre
and a lending library has been started and is being used very
enthusiastically by all the girls, who take books home from the
centre.
An outing was organised to Chessington Zoo, as well as to the
School Leavers' Exhibition.
Home Teacher
A home teacher visits mentally handicapped children who are
too physically handicapped to attend training centres. Although
her services are shared with other boroughs, the proportion of
work that she is carrying out for Wandsworth has increased this
year.