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REMEDIAL READING CLASSES—LEYTON
SESSION 1953-54
Report by Miss M. Marshall, Educational Psychologist.
The remedial reading classes in Leyton have now completed their
second whole year's work. All the Junior Schools in Leyton now have
groups of children receiving this extra help, except St. Joseph's R.C.
Primary School, where the Group has been selected but so far no teacher
has been found to undertake the work.
Numbers of Children.
It has now become established practice that the number of children
in a Group should be six. This seems to be the best number from the point
of view of the remedial teacher, who finds it impossible to give every child
some individual help in the hour's lesson if there are more than that number
in the Group. Since Mayville Road Junior School came into the scheme after
Christmas 1953, and the numbers were increased at Cann Hall Road and
Downsell Road, there were more children in the reading classes this year
than last.

These results are considered to be very good, as the average gain in
reading ability was well over two years, though many of the children had less
than a year's special teaching.
The number of children going on to Secondary Schools at the end of
the summer term, who had had some special help with reading was 47.
The average reading age of this group was 9.0 years (highest 12.6 years
and lowest 7.0 years). This is a slight improvement over last year.
The following table will show in more detail the gains made during
the year.