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Children at the school are examined regularly by a senior
medical officer and a visiting consultant; those children with severe
physical handicaps are given the opportunity of receiving social
training and physiotherapy; those pupils with speech defects are treated
by the speech therapist.
Two children gained entrance to residential grammar schools
and five others transferred to ordinary schools.
During the year a party of thirty senior children was taken
for a two week visit to Holland, the whole undertaking being without
mishap or illness of any kind.
One pupil was selected nationally to spend a month in Austria
with the Anglo-Austrian Fellowship.
Extra mural visits took place from time to time to such places
as museums, art galleries and places of historic interest.
One pupil left the school during the year and was placed at
a school of needlework as a trainee.
St. Philip's School for Educationally Subnormal Children
Fleetwood House. Leatherhead Road. Chessington
I am grateful to Miss F. A. Lloyd, Headmistress, for the
following report.
This school now receives children from the age of five and
this youngest class will have the full time help of a nursery assistant
in addition to the present fully qualified infants' teacher. The new
class is run on nursery lines and in their own time the children are
becoming interested in reading, telling the time, and using their
initiative in constructive work. They are learning to help one another
and co-operate in play.
At the other end of the scale the fifteen and sixteen year old
pupils now stay for "Youth Club classes",learning and working in a club
atmosphere. These are held on three afternoons each week from 3 to
5.30 p.m. and the pupils experience a longer working day without the
rigours of an extended school. The work is based on cookery, art and
craft, woodwork and outdoor activities when the weather permits. These
children go home by public transport when the classes are over and they
have been provided with bus passes for this purpose.
A total of sixteen children left the school during 1966, and
were assisted in finding employment by the Youth Employment Service.