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GARDENING CENTRES.
There are Gardening Centres in connection with the
following- Schools :—
Bonner Hill Road Boys' School at the School.
Richmond Road Boys' School at "Elmfield."
St. John's Boys' School at the School.
St. Paul's Boys' School at Tudor Road.
All Saints' Boys' School at "Elmfield."
Physically Defective School at "Elmfield."
At present, St. Luke's, St. Peter's and St. Agatha's
Schools are without Gardening Centres.
DEFECTIVE CHILDREN.
Exceptional children are brought to the notice of the
School Medical Officer by the School Nurses, Health
Visitors and Attendance Officers.
As regards Mentally Defective Children, the School
Medical Officer invites the Teachers to bring before him
any children they consider to be very backward, feebleminded
or mentally defective whenever he visits the Schools
for the purpose of carrying out re-inspections. He then
makes out a Following-up Card for each child and
re-inspects every term those not in special schools, thus
keeping them under supervision.
There is no Special Day School for Mentally Defective
Children, but at Bonner Hill Infants' School there is a
special class in which the infants are instructed on lines
based upon the Montessori System, and there are special
classes for backward children in the Boys' and Girls'
Departments at the same School.
SCHOOL CAMP.
St. Peter's Girls' School.
The Head Teacher, Miss A. Thompson, and her Assistants
were a61e by their work to raise sufficient funds to
take a party of girls to New Romney, Kent, for a week.
In all, 30 girls, three of whom paid all, and 14 part of
their own expenses, proceeded to the Aerodrome Camp,
New Romney, on June 19th and returned on June 26th.
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