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Senior Schools.
(a), (b) and (c) as for Junior Schools.
Central School.
(а) Incidental teaching as occasion offers.
(b) At least two formal lessons of thirty minutes each week.
Acknowledgment must be made as in previous years of the
valuable assistance given by the School Enquiry Officers who
heartily co-operate with the School Medical Staff in ascertaining
mentally and physically defective children, in reporting on the
absence of children from school owing to defective conditions and
in stimulating neglectful parents to secure treatment for their
children.
Valuable help has been obtained in various ways from the
Central Aid Society, who assist in obtaining Special Hospital and
Convalescent Home treatment for anaemic or badly nourished
children, from the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children in bringing pressure to bear on parents who are neglecting
their children, from the School Attendance Aid Committee in supplying
boots for necessitous children and from the Middlesex King
Edward Memorial Committee in giving holidays at their Holiday
Home at Heme Bay to anaemic and weakly children.
NURSERY SCHOOLS.
The Local Education Authority have not established any
Nursery Schools, but children between four and five years of age
are admitted to the Infants' Departments if accommodation
is available whenever the School Attendance Sub-Committee are
satisfied that it will be of advantage to the child to be so dealt with,
because of particular circumstances such as the employment of
the mother or the overcrowded or unsuitable conditions of the
home. Each case is considered on its merits by the Committee
on an application being made by the parents. Very few married
women engage in regular employment in the Borough so that
there is no insistent demand for Nursery Schools.