ABSTRACT
Dogsdale is a large middle school in the West Midlands countryside, catering for around 600 nine to thirteen year olds, and housed in the well-worn buildings of an old secondary modern school. It has also inherited from the secondary modern various large playing fields, and on one of these a new day school for physically handicapped children has recently been built. The choice of site may have been determined by the availability of land rather than by any intention of providing the physically handicapped children with access to an ordinary school, but the schools’ proximity has increased the opportunities for integration.
