E/SE2/2/5

File regarding Hillcrest Special School, Dunstable, including information as follows:

1971 - 1987

From: 1971 To: 1987

- Application for Department of Education & Science approval of a special school, including maximum number of classes and pupils and age range of pupils (5-15/16) [1971]; - 40 item inventory of 2 class extension [1971]; - severance of staff member’s finger whilst chasing a pupil who ran into the road and was nearly struck by traffic [1972]; - brief notes by Local Education Authority officers and advisers visiting the school [1975-1981]; - destruction of staff member’s spectacles by a pupil [1975]; - list of children receiving medication and the type of medication received [1975]; - request for State Registered Nurse at school [1975]; - headteacher's dissatisfaction with inadequate facilities for children in special care [1976]; - damage to staff member’s watch by a pupil with an industrial magnet [1977]; - provision of insurance for children undertaking horse riding [1978]; - lack of accommodation for 16-19 year olds [1978-1982]; - agendas and minutes of Governors’ Meetings, including headteacher's reports and other matters [1979-1987]; - programme of The Hillcrest Minstrel Show [1980]; - lists of pupils, and their circumstances/disabilities, requiring transfer to Bramingham Adult Training Centre, Luton [1980-1983]; - children on the waiting list for the school [1981]; - formulation of a plan to allow school staff to gain experience with younger children by working for some of the time at Glenwood Special School, Dunstable [1985]; - Deputy Head’s report on the benefits of school links with engineering companies [1985]; - complaint by anonymous member of the public regarding alleged throttling of a pupil by a teacher who was, in fact, restraining the pupil whom he had found wrapping a chain around the neck of another pupil [1985]; - complaint by parent regarding nursery assistant allegedly telling his daughter that she was too old to go on a school trip to Legoland, Denmark, with headteacher's robust response [1987].

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