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The same routine is followed here as at St. John's, the equipment
being rather more ample and more modern as it is a newer
school. Montessori methods are followed and the corresponding
apparatus is used.
Stanhope.—This Nursery School is the most recent one to
be opened in the Borough and has now been in existence about
eighteen months. It consists of only one class although there is
rather a long list of childien awaiting admission. There are 34
children in the class of whom 14 are three years of age.
All the childien have milk, six of them having it free.
The class occupies an open-air type of schoolroom. There is
an annexe comprising cloakroom with wash-hand basins, waterclosets
and separate bathroom. There is also a large store room
and an ample supply of toys and apparatus.
Drayton Infants.- There is a separate nursery class in this
school consisting of 33 children aged 4 to 4½. It is run partly on
nursery school and partly on infant school lines. Theie is no proper
afternoon rest for the cliildren, and the amount of toys and other
equipment is limited.
All the children have milk in school.
It would be much more satisfactory if these young children
could enjoy the full nursery school routine and not be treated
merely as the lowest class of an infant school.
SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
Medical inspection was carried out as in former years on
behalf of the Middlesex Education Committee in four County
Schools in the Borough, 815 routine and 36 special inspections of
pupils being made.
Ophthalmic treatment was given during the year to 100 pupils
attending County Schools and for 76 of th se spectacles were
prescribed and supplied through the school medical department.