ABSTRACT
There are 474 other junior children in Lorraine’s school, along with a head teacher; fourteen full-time staff; one part-time special needs teacher; and no less than four part-time needlework teachers. A rather curious phenomenon, which means that craft activities must be sex-orientated. A separate infants school of some 200 children is on the same site and serves the entirely suburban, owner-occupier, catchment area. The junior school, which has been academically very successful for many years, is unstreamed by design. In other words, all children are tested after their first year and then grouped according to age, sex and ability, to produce a balance within each class. In addition, certain children are extracted in small groups each day for a quarter of an hour’s extra reading, and each is heard individually. All buildings and grounds are modern, attractive and well cared for.
