E/SE2/1/1

File regarding Hitchmead Special School, Hitchmead Road, Biggleswade, including information as follows:

1970 - 1987

From: 1970 To: 1987

- copy draft advertisements for post of Deputy Head [1970-1972]; - minor matters regarding completion of the building and adequacy of facilities [1970-1972]; - reallocation elsewhere of permanent supply teacher [1971]; - theft from staff handbags [1971]; - provision of long jump pits [1972]; - break-ins at, thefts from and vandalism of the premises [1972-1973]; - draft advertisements for post of Assistant Teacher (Middle Age Range) [1972-1973]; - note of staff appointments made [1973]; - draft advertisement for post of Senior Master [1973]; - request for extra accommodation [1973]; - refusal by Biggleswade Urban District Council to provide a house for the caretaker [1974]; - draft advertisement for post of Teacher (Scale 1) [1974]; - possibility of five day trip to Holland for pupils [1974]; - advertisement for post of Assistant Teacher [1974]; - information on the school to accompany a job advertisement [1974]; - request for increase in number of Scale 2 teaching posts [refused] [1975]; - résumé of duties of Welfare Assistant [1975]; - brief notes of visits by Local Education Aunthority (LEA) officers/advisers [1976-1979]; - complaint by headteacher at paucity of visits by advisers [1976]; - inability of Schools’ Psychological Service, through lack of staff resources, to review all pupils who might benefit [1976]; - refusal by LEA to provide a free meal to a Clerical Assistant who helped supervise mealtimes [1977]; - job description of Clerical Assistant [nd. 1970s]; - job description of General Assistant [nd. 1970s]; - use of link schemes to give senior pupils experience of and confidence in the World outside school, and possible insurance difficulties [1977]; - details of estimated pupil numbers for 1979/80; - agendas and minutes of Governors’ Meetings, including Headteacher’s Report and other matters [1979-1987]; - concern at need of staff to attend school when pupils were excluded due to use of the school as a polling station [1979]; - Brief to Architect on 45 Place Completion of school [1980]; - work book for pupils attending a five day trip to Teesdale [1980]; - refusal of LEA to compensate Headteacher for a rare, if comparatively inexpensive, collector’s pot he brought into school for educational purposes [1981]; - report of the Working Party of Governors & Staff of Hitchmead School on the Warnock Report and its Relevance to the School [1981]; - school’s success in Department of Industry’s Computer Competition [1982]; - outline of topics to be covered in a session demonstrating the school’s use of computers in social and academic education [1983]; - refusal by North Bedfordshire Health Authority to grant more speech therapy time to school due to lack of resources [1983]; - withdrawal of goodwill by National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers and National Union of Teachers members [1984]; - letter of thanks from Department of Education & Science (DES) for a demonstration of computer applications at the school to DES staff [1984]; - the withdrawal of goodwill by teachers creating inadequate supervision at lunch times [1984]; - similarities between the lower ability pupils at Hitchmead and the higher ability pupils at Sunnyside ESN(S) School, Biggleswade [1985]; - programme for visit by Danish Education Psychologists from Dansk Psykologisk Forlag, København [1985]; - no opportunity for staff to attend a Technical & Vocational Education Initiative course due to contract between LEA and Manpower Services Commission excluding involvement with Special Schools [1986]; - minimal links between Hitchmead and mainstream schools [1987];

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Biggleswade Urban District Council,
North Bedfordshire Health Authority,
National Association of Schoolmasters,
Union of Women Teachers,
National Union of Teachers,
Manpower Services Commission

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