Selective examinations on starting school.

Selective medical examinations on starting school.

Selective medical examination of children starting school has been operated in Cramlington for five years, and the data for the school year 1984-85 are reported. It is argued that the 'routine medical' is an outdated concept and that its abolition would allow more time for more important aspects of educational medicine including help for adolescents, disabled children in school, and deprived ch...

Selective medical examinations for school entrants: the way forward.

Routine medical inspections have been a traditional part of starting school in the United Kingdom since the early 1900s. When the school health services were incorporated into the NHS in 1974 medical inspections ceased to be a statutory requirement, and the numbers of routine medical examinations of children over the age of 5 have declined. Most areas have, however, retained a system of routine...

Starting School

The head mistress of a Secondary Modern School for girls had the good idea of organising a school party each year at the end of the summer term, the guests to be the pupils about to move up to ^e Senior school and the leavers to act as hostesses. It is difficult to tell which group derives the greater benefit, the 15-year-olds proudly showing the "little ones" around and enjoying their own uttp...

Policy on Mandatory School-entrance Oral Health Examinations.

On planetary motion – starting with a high-school exercise

A high-school exercise is used to get an insight into planetary motion.