E/ME9/1/1

File regarding Marlborough Lower School, Marlborough Road, Queen’s Park, Bedford with information as follows:

1985 - 1988

From: 1985 To: 1988

- list of governors, with addresses and type of governorship; - list of staff, both teaching and non-teaching and student teachers, with class allocation and teaching speciality where appropriate; - plan of school premises; - numbers of boys and girls in each class, January 1988; - nursery timetable; - information on staff, including: name and address; professional qualifications; main/subsidiary studies; previous teaching experience; with school, ages taught and special curriculum areas; teaching experience in present school with ages taught; present post and responsibilities; courses attended in the last five years; and experience gained outside schools; - notes on duties of Deputy Head and class teachers; - list of teachers with area of responsibility and length of service at the school; - list of school opening, lunch, play and assembly times; - notes on sections to include in aims of survey of school; - detailed weekly timetables for each class, Spring Term 1988; - school profile, January 1987, including: list of background nationalities in the school and nursery; diagrams showing thematic work by term 1985-87, sources information for staff, curriculum areas examined and changing, initiatives attempting to meet needs of English as a Second Language children, bulletins, and possible future developments; list of cross-school links with Eversholt Lower, 1985-87; and strategies used in implementing a change in a curriculum area (language); - poster inviting attendance at a Diwali celebration at the school, November 1986; - draft report on school survey, including notes on visits to each individual class, interviews with some staff members, section on Multicultural Education (ME), relationships with parents and the community, general comments and recommendations; - final version of the report on school survey; - memo from ME Co-ordinator regarding survey; - draft report on school including: programme, aims, method and findings of the survey; school environment, ethos, relationship with the community and resources; the curriculum; teaching styles; management of the school; general comments and recommendations; and closing remarks; - detailed report on overall aims and philosophy of the school including policy on mathematics, computer education, science, Religious Education (RE), thematic work, and drama and mime/movement; - school profile, January 1988, including: list of background nationalities in the school and nursery; and reports on the following areas: - curriculum development, including: development of science during 1987; visits to Priory Park, school library, computer development, special needs, nursery/reception liaison; rôle play area; “Breakthrough to Literacy” scheme; thematic work development during 1986-87; Diwali, October 1987; Physical Education; everyone reading in class; - links with other schools, including: RE Month, March 1987; links with Mogerhanger Lower; - links with home/school/community, including: shared reading; visit of Asian artist in residence at Elstow Craft Centre to school; - staff development, including: development 1987-88; nursery nurse student teacher programme; professional development interviews; - links with Bedford College of Higher Education: “A Taste of the Indian Sub-Continent”; involvement of school at Book Cover UK, October 1987; - links with Multicultural Education Resources Centre and Local Education Authority: resource pack for Education Officers, September 1987.

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