| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | UWT/F/73/56 |
| Title | London Unit Committee - minutes and agendas of meetings |
| Date | 1955 -1958 |
| Description | Subject areas covered in the minutes include:
Committee nominations and arrangements
Notices and arrangements for meetings and conferences
Accounts
Conference resolutions on Equal Pay, Equal Opportunities, Income Tax, Pensions, Primary Schools and places for girls in Grammar Schools
School Attendance
Class Sizes
Staffing
School Meals
School Leaving Age
Playground and Dinner Duties
Admission to Secondary Schools
Teachers Salaries and Special Allowances
Establishment of Nursery Classes in Infant Schools
Invitations to,and notices of, openings of new schools
Notification of Travel Club outings
Retirements of Committee Members
Tax relief for those employing domestic help
Offer from Australia to buy Equal Pay film 'To be a Woman' for £25 and discussion of funding for the film
The status of Typing (as a subject) in Secondary Schools
School Holidays
Celebrations of NUWT Headquarters' 21st birthday
Education Committee Report, dealing, in part, with the University of London's enquiry into 'Recruitment of Science and Mathematics Teachers'
Distribution of 'The Woman Teacher'
Vacancies at 'The Woman Teacher'
Discussions relating to teachers who have no knowledge of Music taking Music classes for Infants
Marking of the 10th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Charter, commemorated by Westminster Branch of NUWT
Description of a WEA Conference on Goldsmith's College as 'complete waste of time and held in a shocking room'.
Guidance on children's books which have pictures of 'performing and captive animals'. Teachers told to write to publishers of these books, expressing the view that they have a malign influence on children.
Death notices: Miss Pierotti
Supply of - and costs relating to - School Record Cards
Changes to regularity of milk in schools
Notification of retirements of teachers
Education Sub-Committee Report giving recommendations re Pupils' Record Cards in Secondary Schools
Education Sub-Committee Reports on Capitation Allowances, School Journeys and Tables and Chairs for Pupils
Proposed discussion of reports entitled 'Special Studies in Sec. Schools' and 'Commercial Studies in Secondary Schools'
Milk in Schools
Distribution of Rural Education Leaflets
Conditions for teachers wishing to continue after retiring age
Education Committee Report containing discussion on NUWT pamphlet on 'The Secondary Modern School'. Points which arose in meeting included discussion of: bad discipline in Secondary Modern Schools, specialist teachers and assesment for children at grammar school age
Report proposing a scheme of allowances for children
Needlework Accounting
Conference resolution on untrained teachers
Discussions relating to implementation of Duke of Edinburgh's Award into schools
Discussion on proposed TV programmes on schools by the Associated Rediffusion TV production company
List of books for reading aloud or retelling by a teacher, rejected by LU Committee on grounds that 'teachers would probably prefer to choose their own books'.
Costs of repairs to schools
Content of classes for remedial training
Introduction of TV in London schools
Notice of opening of the Exhibition of Art in London
Notice that Miss Pierotti and Rita Goodlatte are going to attend the Moral and Social Hygiene Council
Consideration of whether to query 'notices being sent to heads about the attendance of children at non-medical clinics'
Talk given by Miss Rowe on 'Implications of Democracy' at After Conference Tea Meeting in 1957
Arrangements for examinations
Distribution of lung cancer pamphlets to school leavers
Provision of towels in schools
Mrs Ford made a 'complaint about the grammar and accent in the BBC's television programmes'
Opening of Tulse Hill School
Evening Classes for teachers suggested, proposed subjects included: Basketry, Embroidery, Pottery, Foreign Affairs and Appreciation of Music
Question asked about necessity 'for secondary schools to have longer holidays than junior schools'
Rita Goodlatte visited Buckingham Palace for a Garden Party
Note of 'great respect' shown for the NUWT by International Liason Committee for Peace, during lectures and discussions at Oxford'
Paperwork for school journeys abroad
'Lecture on New Israel' , held on 21st November 1957, at the Institute of Education
'Notice from the University of London Institute of Education on Lectures for the Teachers' Group on "International Aspects of the Curriculum"'
Need for Teachers to Teach English overseas
Proposed issues to be considered at Conference include: 'more publicity being given to firms which allow their young workers time for further education'
Report from head of Seaford Domestic College 'that women's colleges are being asked to take in men'
Suggestion that NUWT members should write to their MP about Guardianship of Infants Bill being introduced into the House of Commons
'Backward' Children
NUWT members present at the meetings (not all members were present at each meeting):
Miss Carter
Miss Sicely
Rita Goodlatte
Miss Kenwright
Miss Mutimer
Mrs Benton
Miss Wilkins
Miss Odlum
Miss Stratton
Miss Whitaker
Miss Eveline Maud Begbie
Miss Eley
Miss Hinchliff
Miss Osmond
Miss Hill
Miss Rennie
Miss Symon
Mrs Hammond
Mrs Poynter
Mrs Ford
Mrs Needham
Mrs Gant |
| Extent | 1 volume |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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