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Junior Deaf and Partially Hearing Units, Kingsley Junior School
There are 6 children in the Deaf Unit, accommodated in a specially
built classroom with Peters equipment installed in individual specially
designed desks and fully furnished for all Junior school activities.
An additional teacher has been appointed for some part of the time to
this class. Arrangements have been made for a regular weekly visit by this
class to a learner bath for swimming instruction.
In the Partially Hearing Unit there are 9 children who are continuing to
progress with an interesting, varied and lively curriculum using Connevans
group aid and Amplivox speech trainers as well as all the usual school
facilities.
There is an individual timetable for each child giving considerable integration
with many classes in the school for a variety of activities. The
class also has a part-time teacher attending two mornings a week. A student,
a qualified teacher, from the Diploma course at the London University is on a
teaching practice in the Unit. Visits to places of interest continue to be an
important part of the curriculum of the Units; on these occasions the children
often go-together with children from the main School. Some of the children are
joining the school group visiting Belgium and Holland during the Whitsun
holiday 1973.
All the children join in with morning assembly, playtimes and at school
dinners. Together, they occasionally lead worship at assembly with their
teachers. Group and individual work is carried out, children working at their
own level because of their widely differing abilities, needs and attainments.
Senior Partially Hearing Unit. Riddlesdown High School
There are five pupils in the unit as follows:—
5th Year 1
4th Year 2
3rd Year 1
1st Year 1
These pupils are very well integrated throughout the school, viz:
5th year boy 37/40 periods)
4th year girl 37/40 periods)
4th year girl 36/40 periods)
3rd year girl 32/40 periods)
1st year boy 17/40 periods)
At the beginning of the 4th year, pupils begin their "option" courses
which, where appropriate, lead to C.S.E. Examinations in the 5th year. The
5th year boy recently sat for 5 "mock" exams and it is hoped he will be
entered for the C.S.E. exams in June (English, Accounts, History, Geography,