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The Staff consists of:—
1 Head Teacher (part time).
3 Assistant Teachers.
1 School Nurse (part time).
1 General Helper.
Kitchen staff are those employed at Knox Road Special
School.
1 ram tickets are provided for the children where necessary,
free or at part cost, according to the parents' income.
Meals are provided as follows:—
Breakfast at 8.45 a.m. during the Summer, and 9 a.m.
during the Winter months.
Dinner at 12 noon.
Full tea at 5 p.m. during the Summer months.
Milk and a biscuit at 4 p.m. during the Winter months.
Mid-morning milk at 10.45 a.m.
All the children have a rest period from 1.30 p.m. to about
3 p.m.
This School has in my opinion served a very valuable purpose
in the interests of the weakly school children of the Borough (a
review of the reports of the Headmistresses issued yearly in my
report bears out this view). With the opening of the girls'
section of the Fyfield Residential Open-air School the number of
parents willing to send their children to the Day Open-air School
fell off somewhat, as was perhaps only natural.
The School has from the first had to face a number of drawbacks,
particularly in respect to the type and "limitation of the
structure provided ^which was only temporary), and in regard to
its being within the same curtilage as a school for mentally
defective children. The site not being a central one is also detrimental.
The fact also that there is one room used continually as
a class-room, as a rest-room, and as a dining-room, appears to be
a highly undesirable arrangement. Bearing this in mind, I
suggest that the Committee consider returning to the original
number of sixty pupils of both girls and junior boys, when the
School should continue to be of the utmost value.
F. GARLAND COLLINS,
School Medical Officer.
Municipal Health Offices,
Romford Road,
Stratford, E.15.
October, 1935.
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