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Partially Deaf.
Two boys and two girls were ascertained as partially deaf and recommended
to remain in ordinary schools with special treatment. There is
one boy at a day special school and one girl at a residential school.
Blind.
No child was so ascertained in 1955. Two boys and one girl were at
residential schools.
Partially Sighted.
One boy was ascertained in 1955 and recommended to stay at an
ordinary school with special treatment. One boy was attending a day
special school at the end of the year.
Epileptic.
Two boys were newly ascertained in 1955, and at the end of the year
two boys and one girl were at residential schools.
Section 57. Education Act 1944.
Four children were excluded from school under Section 57(3) and
seven were recommended for supervision. In addition 12 children from
the Forest Division attending Harrow Green were referred for supervision
after leaving school.
Section 56. Education Act 1944.
At the end of the year 16 children were receiving tuition in Whipps
Cross Hospital, and during the year one girl received tuition at home.
KNOTTS GREEN DAY OPEN AIR SCHOOL.
This school catered mainly for handicapped pupils of the category
"delicate ", with a few physically handicapped children.
Prior to 1939 the school roll varied between eighty and a hundred
children, but, at the end of the war there were only thirty to forty
children in attendance. It was anticipated that the number of pupils
would increase in the post-war period especially as it was agreed that
children from Forest Division who were "delicate" or "physically hands
capped " should be admitted.
For a time the school roll increased, but with the improvement in
the health of the school child and the general rise in the standard of
living the expected increase of the school roll did not occur, and the
number of children in attendance returned to about thirty.
The school has a placement of approximately one hundred pupils,
and it was not considered to be economic to continue to use the school for
this type of handicapped pupil, especially as there was a long waiting
list for admission to Harrow Green Educationally Sub-normal School,
some forty children of all ages awaiting admission.
After due consideration the Committe for Education decided to:—
(a) Close the school as a Day Open Air School.
(b) Re-distribute the present children to open air schools in adjacent
areas.
(c) Re-open the school as a junior annexe to Harrow Green Educationally
Sub-normal School, and
(d) Use Harrow Green Educational Sub-normal School as a Senior
School for this type of case.