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week, and that a nurse usually visits once a week. Medical and
nursing help is also available in any emergency.
Miss R. E. A. Lock, Headmistress, reports as follows:-
"At the end of the summer term the school was moved from
Hale End to larger premises at Pretoria Avenue.
"More activities are now possible with regard to physical
education, etc. in the spacious hall provided. In good weather we
have easy access to a playing field, netball and football pitches and
an excellent children's (nursery) playground.
"A full medical inspection was made in July.
"A School Nurse attends one half day each week to teach
mothercraft to the senior girls. Immediate support was established
and the girls appreciate the lessons.
"My grateful thanks are due to the Health Service for their
ready co-operation at all times.
"Our school leavers have all obtained employment in local
factories and workshops.
"The school is used by the Students attending E.S.N. Diploma
Course (London University)."
(c) School for the Partially Sighted.—Mr. G. M. Williams,
Headmaster, reports as follows:—
"The school re-opened at the beginning of the year at premises
in the former Pretoria Avenue school, the girls section comprising
four classrooms, hall, dining room and ancillary service rooms being
entirely devoted to the sole needs of the school. The accommodation
is much more spacious and provides better teaching facilities than at
the Wood Street school, and has the advantage of not being shared
with other children. The Committee decided that in future the
school should be known as the Joseph J. Clarke School, in commemoration
of a former Medical Officer of Health of the Borough.
"At the end of the school year there were 43 children on roll.
Of these 6 came from Walthamstow, 20 from other Boroughs and
Divisions in Essex, comprising Barking, Dagenham, Forest, Ilford,
Leyton, Romford and S.E. Essex, and 17 out-County children from
the Middlesex Boroughs of Edmonton, Enfield, Hornsey, Highgate,
Tottenham and Wood Green.
The special ophthalmic sessions held at the school in December
showed that the range of visual acuity (Snellen) after correction,
was as follows:—
19 children with acuity of 6/60 or less,
14 with acuity 6/36,
5 with acuity 6/24,
5 with acuity 6/18 or more.
17 children had monocular vision only.