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"During the year six children have left school. Two aphasie
children whose speech is now normal have been transferred to the
Open Air School and a Junior School respectively. One child has
left the district and another has been sent to a Residential Institution
for the Deaf. Two senior deaf girls have been found satisfactory
work as embroideresses, one of these having had the advantage of
two terms at the Ley ton Art School.
"A grant has been made enabling one of our deaf boys to attend
the Trade Schools for the Deaf at Margate for a three-years' course
in bootmaking and repairing.
"Three new children have been admitted during the year.
"One of our senior girls continues to make satisfactory progress
at the North Central School.
"The work of the school continues along the lines described in
the reports of 1935 and 1936. The curriculum includes—besides
speech, lip-reading and general subjects—woodwork, gardening,
football, cricket, swimming, cookery and laundry, boot repairing
and brush making, some of these being taken with hearing children
in other schools.
"The deaf children continue to derive much benefit from work
with the multitone apparatus."
(iii) Open Air School.— The accommodation of the school was
recognised during the year by the Board of Education as 170.
Miss Thompson, the Head Teacher, reports as follows:—
"During the year the school has taken shape after some rearrangements
found to be necessary or advisable.
"The older orthopaedic cases were set apart in a classroom of
their own together with the cardiac cases that were in the former
Joseph Barrett Physically Defective Centre. Here the normal work
of an elementary school goes on and children leave only when ready
to go to a training school or to paid employment.
"One boy was sent to Stanmore Training College, 10 left for
paid employment, while 7 went to hospital for brief periods.
"The main part of the school is devoted to the treatment of
malnutrition and debility, of which there are approximately 100
cases on roll. Weekly medical inspections were carried on throughout
the year with the Head Teacher and school nurse present.
Roboleine, cod liver oil and Parrish's food are ordered for specific
cases in addition to the daily dinner and milk.