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At the Enfield Junior Training School, there is provision for 144 children of
both sexes, including a small nursery group and a special care unit. All the children
in the special care unit have a dual handicap such as spasticity or other physical
defects, as well as subnormality.
A new toilet block adjoining the external classroom at the Junior Training
School, providing additional toilet and washing facilities for boys and girls, was
completed during the Summer term.
The school normally accepts children from four to sixteen years of age, but a
number of persons over the age of sixteen years continue in attendance and special
provision is made for them. The majority of those reaching sixteen years of age
transfer to the Adult Training Centre. The school is open during ordinary school
terms and the children are conveyed to and from the school by coaches provided or
hired by the Council.
The work scheme provided by the teaching staff is adaptable and imaginative.
Casework with families is carried out by the mental welfare officers, thus maintaining
a bridge between the home and the school. During the year the Supervisor and Deputy
Supervisor were re-designated Head Teacher and Deputy Head Teacher respectively;
the Assistant Supervisors responsible for classes were re-designated Teachers.
Parents are invited to attend the routine medical and dental inspections. Those
children in whom defects are found, or where there are matters requiring further
investigation, are dealt with by the school health service or are referred to their
general medical practitioner.
Speech therapy is provided at the school for children with defective speech who
are likely to benefit. During the year it was possible to resume physiotherapy, one
session per week, for children medically recommended for treatment at the school.
The number on the roll at the end of the year was 99, plus 42 in the special care
unit, and there were 23 on the waiting list for admission.
Some children from the London Borough of Haringey are admitted to the school
and four Enfield children are placed at the Friern Barnet Junior Training School in
the London Borough of Barnet to facilitate transport arrangements.
As in previous years, visits were paid on various occasions to the school by
representatives of other local authorities, professional bodies and voluntary
organisations.
There was a good attendance of parents at the Open Day at the school on
Thursday, 26th June. The children gave an activity display, and examples of cookery
undertaken by the older children were on exhibition. The Chairman of the Health
Committee and Members of the Council attended as well as executive members of
the Enfield Society for Mentally Handicapped Children. A successful Sports Day
was held on Friday, 18th July.
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