E/SE2/2/4

File regarding Glenwood Special School, Beech Road, Dunstable (a primary school for mentally handicapped children), including information as follows:

1972 - 1987

From: 1972 To: 1987

- copy advertisement for post of Deputy Head [1972]; - 295 item inventory [1972]; - Application for Department of Education & Science approval of special school including maximum number of classes and pupils and age range of pupils (3-9) [1972]; - Her Majesty's Inspectorate suggestion [agreed] that age range be extended from 2-10 years [1973]; - serious staff shortage [1973]; - correspondence regarding inadequate fences allowing children access to neighbouring gardens [1974]; - destruction of one pair of spectacles belonging to a member of the public and several belonging to staff by pupils [1974]; - child escaping and being found on A5 [1974]; - brief notes by Local Education Authority (LEA) staff and advisers visiting school [1975-1984]; - Friends of Glenwood setting up a Tote to pay for a new school swimming pool [1975]; - suggested conversion of sand and water room into indoor swimming pool [1975]; - theft from staff member’s handbag [1976]; - donation of a caravan to school by Manshead Upper School, Dunstable [1976]; - LEA permission for Friends of Glenwood annual Dog Show at school [1977]; - headteacher's concern at downgrading of school from Group 6 to Group 5, with LEA explanation [1977]; - school prospectus and LEA reservations at charging parents to join Parent Teachers Association [1977]; - provision of increased secretarial hours [1977]; - notes of a visit to discuss the number of children on the waiting list and overall staffing position [1978]; - inability of Area Health Authority to provide increased speech therapy at school due to lack of resources [1978]; - agendas and minutes of Governors’ Meetings, including headteacher's reports and other matters [1978-1987]; - headteacher's involvement with Schools Council Project: Health Education 5-13 [1979]; - return of ethnic minority pupils, including origins etc. [1981]; - headteacher's report on curriculum development at school [1981]; - two nursery nurses who were State Registered Nurse covering for the lack of a school nurse [1982-1984]; - school newsletters nos 3, 8, 10 and 11 [1982-1985]; - need for an additional nursery nurse in a double classroom where two classes were being taught at once [1982]; - suggested regular visits to school of a hairdresser [1983]; - request to increase the grade of a teacher responsible for videoing children’s behaviour patterns [1983]; - area physiotherapist’s job description and request for increased hours at schools including Glenwood, supported by headteacher [1983]; - industrial action by 8 National Union of Teachers members [1984]; - request by Luton Society for Mentally Handicapped Children & Adults to hold summer playgroup at school as in previous years [1984]; - introduction of non-handicapped pre-school children into the school to combat one of the principal objections of parents in sending their handicapped children to a special school, i.e. that they would get no social intercourse with non-handicapped children [1983]; - staff exchanges with Grasmere Nursery, Pastures Way Nursery and Hart Hill Nursery [1985]; - complaint by parents at closure of school for use as a polling station, with LEA response [1985]; - headteacher's scheme for integration of some pupils into mainstream schools [1985]; - resignation of school nurse following disagreement with headteacher over taking a sick child home in her car [1985]; - new school nurse being subjected to stress by demands of School Nurse Course [1986]; - integration of some pupils at Downside Lower School, Dunstable [1987]; - Glenwood Special School booklet - “A Guide to Early Motor Development”.

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National Union of Teachers,
Luton Society for Mentally Handicapped Children (& Adults)

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