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The school nurse paid fourteen visits to the school. Three
hundred and ten inspections were carried out. It was only
found necessary to exclude one child during these visits.
Provision is made for children attending this school to
receive a bath once a week and a special attendant is employed
by the Education Committee for the purpose. Many
of the parents are glad for their children to take advantage
of these facilities.
A cooked mid-day meal of excellent quality is served
at the school. On an average, twenty children stayed for
this meal for which a charge of threepence is made. In seven
eases it was found necessary to forego the amount owing to
the financial circumstances of the parents. One child
was given cod liver oil and malt in school free of charge.
Over half of the children received milk in school daily under
the scheme of the National Milk Publicity Council.
In addition to the routine class teaching, special attention
is paid to handicraft instruction. Carpentry, gardening,
cookery, and laundry-work are taught.
A list is kept of all retarded school children in the district.
These children are examined by the School Medical
Inspector on an average every six months in order to ascertain
their suitability for transference to the Special School.
The Head Teachers are also requested twice a year to forward
lists of all retarded children in attendance at their schools.
Children who leave the Special School on attaining
the age of sixteen and who are in need of supervision and
care are notified to the Local Authority under the Act of
J913, as amended. In certain cases, where the school report is
satisfactory, the home influence good, and the prospect of employment
favourable, the names are passed on instead to the
Committee of the Guild of Social Welfare which acts in Wimbledon
as the Local Committee of the Surrey Voluntary
Association for Mental and Physical Welfare.
The two boys who left school on attaining the age of sixteen
years had made very good progress and it was considered
that they would readily obtain suitable employment, Their
cases were carefully gone into by the School Medical Inspector
and Head Teacher and the conclusion arrived at that notification
for supervision was not required. These boys are now
employed in a box factory and an electric equipment works
respectively.
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