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operation with the special officer of the Youth Employment
Service.
Several activities in and out of school have given the children
social and learning experience. Inter-school and internal sports,
visits to St. Paul's, Greenwich, the Docks, a Wood yard and Foal
farm. The swimming pool is a great asset and so is the new
adventure play area.
The year ended with a most successful Christmas social and
fayre with stalls and side-shows and concert items by the children.
Grovelands School, St. Pauls Cray
There were 123 pupils on the school roll, twenty-one were
admitted, mostly transfers from other areas or local authority
special opportunity classes.
Nineteen pupils left. Eight of these went to work, which included
fencing and training in clerical work, four transferred to a
training centre, one transferred to residential school, six transferred
to other E.S.N, schools.
One member of staff has left and so far the vacancy is still
unfilled.
Routine medicals, vision, hearing and dental inspections have
continued as usual as have B.C.G. and Rubella vaccinations.
Unfortunately due to shortage of speech therapists the
sixteen pupils who had been having regular treatment have had
very little during the past year. However, the School Psychological
Service have been able to give more time.
Part of the Senior girls practical room has been converted
into a kitchen where 400 mid-day meals were provided and
enjoyed by members of staff and the girls concerned. They cooked
a Christmas dinner for themselves and some guests and also
Christmas cakes to take home and for the Senior citizens they
help with shopping and domestic chores. The Senior boys help
with gardening and the heavier shopping.
The P.T.A. continued its activities and helped to provide
more books for the library, materials for cookery and woodwork
and the petrol for the mini-van.
Places of historical interest both in London and locally have
been visited in addition to the usual places to give ideas for
future employment.
There has been a very keen football team who much to their
joy managed to beat Goddington.
Visiting speakers have included a member of the Fire
Brigade, and an R.S.P.C.A. official; a brass quintet and a theatre