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Social Studies). This boy has matured very much and has taken a Saturday
job. He is very keen to become an apprentice as a racing car mechanic.
One 4th year girl is doing quite well with Commercial Subjects: typing,
accounts etc. The other 4th year girl decided on a non-examination course
which includes a great deal of social and liberal studies.
The 3rd year girl manages very well and has made good progress in most
subjects and certainly seems to be happy here.
The 1st year boy arrived half way through the Autumn term from the
Junior P.H. Unit although he was only 11 years and a few days old. He integrates
with 1st years for two afternoons a week and with 2nd years for Drama,
P.E. and Art. He is the only 1st year child at the main school and has settled
in remarkably quickly and well. He travels quite happily by bus to and from
Addiscombe. In January he sat for the entrance examination for the Mary Hare
Grammar School for the Deaf. Results have not yet been published.
The pupils take part in very many of the activities of the school, including
helping to run the tuck shop, representing their class on the school
council, and joining in a wide variety of School Visits with their various
groups.
In July a 5th year girl started work in an insurance broker's office where she
is doing very well. She passed six C.S.E. exams (Typing, Accounts, English,
Needlework, Cookery and Social Studies) for which she had worked extremely
hard for two years.
EDUCATIONALLY SUBNORMAL PUPILS
In Day Special Schools 528
In Residential Special Schools 29
In Hospitals 36
Home Tuition 2
Awaiting Placement 72
The Educationally Subnormal group now covers a large range of children.
They vary from the child who is just not coping in the larger class in a normal
school, and appears to need more attention than a remedial class is capable
of giving, to the severely retarded child with possibly other handicaps. The
first group attend St. Christopher's and St. Nicholas Day Special Schools or
similar Day or Residential Schools. The latter group attend Coldharbour or a
similar School or,if their handicaps do not permit them to be contained in the
school situation, are admitted to hospital. Before the latter step is taken every
effort is made to contain the chiId elsewhere. He or she wiII almost always
have had a trial at Coldharbour School and Residential placement at a suitable
school will have been obtained wherever possible.