E/SE2/1/3

File regarding Five Springs Special School, Northwell Drive, Marsh Farm Estate, Luton, including information as follows:

1974 - 1981

From: 1974 To: 1981

- advertisement for post of Teacher in Charge of Unit for Non-Communicating Children [1974]; - agendas and minutes of Governors’ Meetings, including headteacher’s reports and other matters [1974-1980]; - Child & Family Psychiatric Service view on correct composition of unit for non-communicating children [1974]; - possibility of purchasing houses in the area for use as residential accommodation for non-communicating children [1975]; - brief notes of visits to school by Local Education Authority (LEA) officers/advisers [1975-1979]; - request for additional teaching resources including breakdown of class numbers [1975]; - notes of a meeting re units for children with communication difficulties [1975]; - newspaper cutting from “Luton News”, with photograph of named pupils from the school raising money with a “guy”, with letter from headteacher expressing concern at newspaper coverage of activities of special schools [1975]; - draft advertisement for Scale 3 Teacher post [1976]; - correspondence, notes etc regarding setting up, running, organisation and rôle of residential unit for non-communicating children [1975-1980]; - advertisements for post of two House Parents at the residential unit [1977-1979]; - advertisement for carol concert and play - “Peter Pan” at the school [1976]; - purchase of a go-kart for the school [1976]; - dispute with a teacher regarding absence from school [1977]; - concern of Area Educational Psychologist at unit for non-communicating children developing into a language unit and at Assessment Panel members’ need for education regarding LEA policy on admissions to Special Education [1977]; - report regarding special unit for non-communicating children including: catchment; involvement of other professionals; roster; programme description; individual programmes; supplementary services; conclusions; charts regarding details of autism shown etc. [1978]; - minutes of Assessment Panel meeting regarding Unit for Children with Communication Difficulties [1978]; - attendance of 32 children on 9 day residential course at Lynden Hall, Swanage [Dorset] [1978]; - non-communicating children unit review of action needed for individual pupils, together with unit roll [1978]; - concern at lack of training of staff at Netherswell Manor [Gloucestershire] in dealing with ESN(M) children [1978]; - description of features of autism [1978]; - description of content of residential unit resource files [1980]; - considerable correspondence etc. regarding an incident where a teacher beat out a fire in his car’s engine with a coat which he later left in the staff cloakroom which subsequently itself caught fire [1980]; - deterioration in School Psychological Service support to school due to lack of resources [1981]; - organisation, complement and ethos of the school [1981].

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