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With the co-operation of Head Teachers and the Education
Department, arrangements were made for health education subjects
to be integrated into the school curriculum at 2 junior schools, 7
secondary schools and 1 grammar school in the Borough. Health
education lectures were also given on a short term basis at 2 other
grammar schools.
The subject included: —
Health hazards associated with cigarette smoking.
The physical and psychological problems of the adolescent.
Mental attitudes as part of healthy living.
The normal development of children.
Nutrition and food hygiene.
Safety in the home and the kiss of life.
Oral hygiene and care of the teeth.
The Health Education Officer or his assistant attended each
of the schools on one session a week,teachingtwo classes, each
class receiving approximately a one hour lecture on each of the
subjects.
Handicapped Pupils
During the year 83 children were assessed as being in need
of special educational treatment by reason of physical, intellectual
or emotional handicaps and 92 admissions to special schools
for handicapped pupils were arranged.
Educationally sub-normal children form the largest single
category of handicapped pupils and in order to reduce the waiting
list for admission of such children to Havering Grange or Corbets
Tey Schools a special class for E.S.N, pupils was commenced at
Dycorts Infants' School in January, 1966.
The nursery class for pre-school maladjusted children at
Mead Infants' School has continued and the similar class at Parklands
Infants' School was transferred to Crowlands Infants' School
during the year. These classes have proved most helpful in
enabling emotionally disturbed young children to stablize sufficiently
to benefit from attendance at an ordinary primary school when they
reach 5 years of age.
The following statistics relate to handicapped pupils assessed
as being in need of special educational treatment:—
37