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All the children integrate at morning assembly, playtimes and dinner
times. Together they have occasionally led the worship at assembly with
their teachers. They produced a Nativity programme to which all their
parents were invited and attended. A meeting was held in the Autumn Term
of parents with the Local Authority Officers and Staffs of all schools
dealing with partially hearing children.
Senior Partially Hearing Unit, Riddlesdown High School
During the year many changes occurred in the Unit. In June, a 3rd
year boy moved to Bridlington. In July a 2nd year girl moved to Stevenage
and in December a 3rd year girl was given permission to attend Norwood
High School at the request of parents who did not wish her to travel so far
to school during winter weather by train. Mrs. Littlejohn who had been
assistant teacher in the Unit for 2 mornings a week moved to Aberdeen in
July.
There were 3 arrivals. In September a 12 year old girl came to the Unit
from another local High School - she was reported to be handicapped by
executive and receptive aphesia. Towards the end of the year she was fitted
with a post aural hearing aid.
Two very deaf sisters - 12 years old and 13 years old - were placed in
the Unit to await admission in a School for Deaf. Their family had recently
moved into Croydon from London. Their admission inevitably created
problems in a Unit for partially hearing children.
1971 ended with 7 pupils as follows:
5th Year Girl - integrating Studying for C.S.E. exams in English,
Accounts, Typing, Social Studies, Needlework and Domestic Science.
4th Year Boy - integrating following Option Courses in Woodwork,
History, Geography, Social Studies, Metalwork and a basic course in
English, Maths and P.E.
3rd Year Girl - integrating  Much improvement made in the behavioural
difficulties which initially brought her to the Unit.
3rd Year Girl - integrating  and progressing satisfactorily. She began
travelling by public transport in April.
2nd Year Girl - integrating  and has settled down quite well in the
first 3 months here.
The two deaf pupils
3rd ear Girl - integratingmostly "practical" subjects and placed in
the same class as another Unit girl.
2nd Year Girl - integratingmostly "practical" subjects and placed in
the same class as the other 2nd year girl.