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Alongside this approach teachers will spend a proportion of their time each day on planned,
systematic individual teaching. We hope to encourage parents to feel that there is always a welcome
for them at the school, and it is intended to involve them in the life of the school as much as possible.
School events which have taken place in 1971, and parents were invited to attend on each
occasion, were: Sports, Harvest Festival Service, Bonfire Celebration, Children's Christmas Plays
and Carol Service, Coffee Evening.
The children were entertained for Christmas by Terry Burgess (Magician); a party of
entertainers from Greenway School; a party of entertainers from Chantry School; a party of our
children went to Meadow School to see the Staff Pantomime.
We are encouraging contacts with other schools and we have regular visits by pupils from
these schools. Pupils from the Greenway School come on Friday afternoons to play games like
Ludo, etc., or to help in the play of younger children. As part of our Christmas entertainment for
the children we were able to show films as we managed to have black-out curtains fitted in the
Main Hall.
Various visits to places of interest were made by groups of our children: 45 to Littlehampton
(the cost of transport was paid for by the South Hillingdon Society for the Mentally Handicapped),
a visit to Harefield School Farm, a visit by the Special Care Unit and Nursery to the Recreation
Centre at Sunbury-on-Thames, a party for a week to Park Place School, Henley (arranged by the
Social Services Department), Meadow School Sports, Nature Trail at Norwood Hall, Meadow
School Christmas Party, Wood End Park Infants' Christmas Play, visit to Park Place, Henley to
see animals and to hear the Band, many visits to local shops, Post Office, Supermarket, walks to
Recreation Ground at Hayes End, to Uxbridge Road to shops to use crossings, etc., walks of
general interest, such as for collecting Autumn leaves, acorns, etc., visits in small groups to
Meadow School."

Modern drug treatment has changed the life of the epileptic in the community in recent years.
The control which these drugs have over the varying degrees of disability displayed by epileptics
has enabled most to live a perfectly normal life in the community. Similarly, children who suffer
from this complaint pursue a normal course in education, the only concessions to the condition
being restrictions based upon above-ground activities and swimming in large groups. The placement
of each child is carefully considered and as for every handicapped child, he is re-assessed
each year in order to examine his progress in education and the propriety of his placement.

Children who present unusual patterns of behaviour are referred to the Child Guidance Clinic
where their problems are examined with great care by the professional staff of Psychiatric Social
Workers, Educational Psychologists and the Child Psychiatrist. After each discipline has made its
contribution to the sum of knowledge, which includes information based upon advice from the
family doctor, school doctor, social workers, etc., a case conference then decides upon a course
of treatment designed to help the child's psychological needs, and the part the family and school
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