E/SE2/4/1

File regarding Ridgeway Special School, Hill Rise, Kempston, including information as follows:

1974 - 1985

From: 1974 To: 1985

- copy draft advertisement for post of Deputy Head [1974]; - brief notes of visits by Local Education Authority (LEA) staff and advisers to school [1974-1980]; - draft advertisement for posts of Head of Middle School (reserved for a man), Head of Lower School (reserved for a woman), and Class Teacher [1975]; - request for LEA permission [granted] for pupils to attend the first meeting of British Sports Association for the Disabled at John Bunyan Centre, Bedford [1975]; - correspondence regarding children being transported to school being involved in road traffic accidents, including lessons to be learned from such incidents [1976-1980]; - inability of Area Health Authority to provide increased physiotherapy services at school [1976]; - consideration of use of a school minibus instead of taxis to transport pupils from outside Kempston to school [1977]; - problems of taxi firms being unwilling to fit harnesses to cars when transporting physically handicapped pupils [1977]; - poster advertising open day at school [1977]; - lack of provision for muscular dystrophy children at school [1977]; - information of pupils also attending courses at Hastingsbury Upper School [1977-1978]; - need for additional facilities to cope with 68 children, the school being designed for 60 [1978]; - agendas and minutes of Governors’ Meetings, including headteacher's reports and other matters [1979-1985]; - Governors’ disquiet at LEA’s dropping of the scheme to purchase two minibuses for the school to use in transporting children with muscular dystrophy [1979]; - general information on school , with statistics on disabilities of pupils [1970s]; - report on five day Youth Hostelling expedition to South Wales [1981]; - rôles and duties of headteacher, curriculum co-ordinators and deputy head [1970s]; - job description for post of nurse at school [1979]; - permission of LEA sought for school to formulate an experiment in the use of Citizens' Band radio [granted] [1982]; - request, which North Bedfordshire Health Authority were unable to meet, for two full-time physiotherapists at the school [1983]; - request for LEA to purchase a £600 page turning machine for a pupil with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy [granted] [1983]; - information regarding residential provision for physically handicapped pupils [1984]; - staffing difficulties at Hastingsbury Upper School meaning that links with, inter alia, Ridgeway may have to be broken [1985]; - problems regarding admission/discharge procedures at school [1985]; - report on a policy of integration between Ridgeway and Hastingsbury Upper School [1985]; - reports to Governors on Child Development Centre [1985]; - notes on presentation of Duke of Edinburgh’s Award to school pupils [1985]; - work book given to pupils attending school Duke of Edinburgh’s Award four day expedition to Derbyshire [1984].

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British Sports Association for the Disabled,
North Bedfordshire Health Authority,
Duke of Edinburgh Awards Scheme

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