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III. Found to be Physically Defective 4
(a) To attend St. Giles' 1
(b) Observation at home 2
(c) To continue at Ordinary Elementary School 1
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IV. (a) Considered to be of normal intelligence and referred to
technical school 1
(b) Referred to Child Guidance Clinic 1
(c) Mother advised and observation at home 4
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V. Mental and physical examinations at St. Christopher's
School 96
Grangewood Occupation Centre.
The Occupation Centre is under the control of the Mental
Deficiency Committee, and deals only with cases ineducable in a
Special School.
The Centre is open for five days a week from 9.30 a.m. to
3.30 p.m. and occupies rooms on the first floor of Grangewood
Museum. Younger children attend daily, mornings and afternoons,
the senior girls on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons from
2 to 4 p.m. (3 sessions), and the senior boys on Tuesday and Thursday
from 2 to 3.30 p.m. (2 sessions). The Mental Deficiency Committee
are considering the matter of alternative and more suitable
accommodation as Grangewood is situated in a public park and the
facilities for outdoor activity are thereby restricted.
The Centre is divided into three classes, each in charge of a
teacher.
The training consists of personal daily hygiene, domestic
training appertaining to help with mid-day meal in kitchen,
laying of meal tables, serving meals, cleaning plates, washing up,
polishing, sweeping.
Boys — Handwork : Sea-grass stools, cane waste-paper
baskets, teapot stands, work baskets, cane bordered trays, wool
and canvas rugs and bags. Woodwork—learning to use tools,
making apparatus for sense training, and small weaving frames.
Girls—Handwork : Knitting baby shoes, dish cloths, baby
coats. Needlework : Useful aprons, peg bags, simple rugs, chair
seats, bedsocks, hot-water bottle covers. Paper cutting, free drawing,
Plasticene. Action songs, poems. Games are also given.