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20 . MISCELLANEOUS.
(i) Employment of Children - Fifteen children were examined by the
medical staff.
(ii) Employment of children in Public Entertainments - Four children
were examined under these Regulations.
(iii) Medical Examinations. The following examinations were made
during 1943 by the medical staff - Teachers 11 Others 2.
(iv) Sex Education - Considerable attention was given to this matter
by your Committee which appointed a sub-committee to consider the
question of Health Education generally.
After consideration of the sub-committee's report and resolutions
passed by the Walthamstow Head Teachers' Association it was resolved -
(i) That no special arrangements be made for sex education in the
Committee's Schools, either in special groups or by special instructors
or lecturers.
(ii) That the subject be dealt with under two heads:-
(a) a long term policy, and
(b) a short term policy
(iii) That, with regard to the long term policy, Biology be taught
to all children in the Committee's Junior and Senior Schools, the
syllabuses to be framed according to the capacity of the children.
(iv) That the resolutions submitted by the Walthamstow Head
Teachers' Association, an amended and set out below, be adopted as the
basis of the short terra policy:-
(a) That the pamphlets on Health Education issued by the Central
Council for Health Education be not distributed to children of the
present school age.
(b) That some sex teaching be given in the Schools, but that such
teaching be left to the discretion of Head Teachers, preferably to be
given in groups as considered advisable, and that Head Teachers be
informed that the Committee desire that the fullest advantage be taken
of this discretion, which should be exercised in consultation with the
parents.
(c) That courses in Health Education be arranged for Senior and
Junior School Teachers, but that no action be taken at present, with
regard to such courses for parents.
(v) That Head Teachers be asked to submit a report, after the
expiration of twelve months, with regard to their experience of the
operation of (iv)(b) above.
(vi) It was further resolved that, in connection with the long term
policy, the question of advising the parents that instruction will be
included in the Biology curriculum in the last year at School, be not
considered until a later date.
21. STATISTICAL TABLES
The statistical tables required by the Board of Education follow:-
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