Minutes of the Education Committee 20th June 1966

PRESENT:-
Chairman: Councillor Mrs. W. M. Palethorpe;
Vice-Chairman: Councillor A. L. Chamberlain;
Aldermen: Mrs L.D. Gum, W.J. Pearmine and Mrs E.V. Pearson;
Councillors. C.G. Abley, H.J. Berry, Mrs. E.M. Dare, M.C. Fish, C.W.G. Foxton, H.F. Fulton, T.C. Messenger, F.C. Newman, T.H. Oakman, A.M. O'Reilly, H.J.E. Palethorpe, G.R. Smith, Mrs V.A. Smith, Mrs. J.C. Ward and Miss D. Wrigley.
Messrs.: G.W. Cordrey, A.R. Summers and A. Watson,
The Very Revd. Canon John Walsh and Rev. Chas. E. Dawes.

THE ORGANISATION OF SECONDARY EDUCATION
Circular 10/65 (12th July) from the Department of Education and Science affirmed the Government's declared objective to end selection at eleven plus and to eliminate separatism in secondary education. The Government's policy had been endorsed by the House of Commons in a motion passed on 21st January, 1965;

"That this House, conscious of the need to raise educational standards at all levels, and regretting that the realisation of this objective is impeded by the separation of children into different types of secondary schools, notes with approval the efforts of local authorities to re-organise secondary education on comprehensive lines which will preserve all that is valuable in grammar school education for those children who now receive it and make it available to more children; recognises that the method and timing of such reorganisation should vary to meet local needs, and believes that the time is now right for a declaration of national policy."

The Secretary of State accordingly requested local education authorities, if they had not already done so, to prepare and submit to him plans for re-organising secondary education in their areas on comprehensive lines. For their guidance, the Circular gave details of the six main forms of comprehensive organisation which have so far emerged from experience and discussion, and contained observations on relevant general considerations.
The authorities were asked to submit plans to the Secretary of State for the re-organisation of secondary education in their areas on comprehensive lines within a year of the date of the Circular, although exceptionally an extension of this period might be agreed.

Following the consideration of the Circular by your Committee, through its Schools Sub-Committee on 13th September, 1965, we accepted the main conclusions of the Chief Education Officer that -
(1) Owing to the relatively small size of the existing secondary schools and the very limited sites available, comprehensive schools of the 11-18 age range were impracticable.
(2) Of the other comprehensive schemes, Scheme II of the circular, consisting of junior secondary schools from 11-14 and senior secondary schools from 14-18, appeared best to suit conditions in the Borough and also to have educational advantages over any other possible scheme,
and we decided that -

(1) Scheme II of Circular 10/65, with transfer of all pupils from junior secondary school to senior secondary school at 14 years, be adopted as a basis for discussion.
(2) The Chief Education Officer be authorised to hold discussions with teachers and others on the advantages and disadvantages of the scheme and to work out the implementation of his proposals in greater detail, particularly with respect to the transitional period.
(3) The Chief Education Officer be instructed to report again to us early in the New Year and that the whole question be then further considered.

On 28th February, 1966, the Chief Education Officer reported to our Schools Sub-Committee that he had addressed a considerable number of meetings of parents, teachers, governors and others, and on the representations received, as a result of which special meetings of the Sub-Committee were held on 5th and 6th April, 1966 to receive a number of deputations. The Chief Education Officer was also asked to draft a leaflet for circulation to parents.

Following consideration of a report on these two meetings, on 2nd May, 1966, we approved the recommendation of our Schools Sub-Committee that the Chief Education Officer should prepare for consideration by us prior to submission to the Department of Education and Science a scheme in detail on the lines previously submitted to us and accepted as a basis for discussion, i.e., Scheme II of Circular 10/65, with transfer of all pupils from junior secondary school to senior secondary school at 14 years.

Both we and our Schools Sub-Committee have now considered the detailed scheme prepared by the Chief Education Officer (set out in the Schedule to this Report and comprising a Statement and Appendices A, B and C), and we recommend its approval by the Council for submission to the Department of Education and Science in accordance with the requirements of Circular 10/65, together with any factual information required by the Department.
We wish to make it absolutely clear that our proposed re-organisation will come into force gradually and that all pupils now at Grammar or Technical Schools will be able to finish their courses in their present schools Similarly, all children admitted to Grammar and Technical Schools in September, 1966, will finish their courses in the schools to which they are admitted.

Through our Schools Sub-Committee we have also considered the Chief Education Officer's report on the consequences for certain schools which follow from the acceptance of the Scheme, and we recommend that -

(i) That no 11-year old children be admitted to Goodall School in September, 1966.
(ii) That the Chief Education Officer be authorised to inform the teachers and parents of Goodall School of the reasons why the Committee consider that the school should be discontinued in July, 1967, and invite their co-operation in bringing this about with the minimum of interruption to the education of the children.
(iii) That the Headmaster of Goodall Secondary School be invited to accept transfer, at a date to be fixed, to the Headship of the George Mitchell School.
(iv) That the Chief Education Officer be authorised to inform the Headmasters of Sidney Burnell and Heathcote Schools of the proposals for the future of their schools and to explain to each of them the reasons why, when re-organisation takes place, they may be required to accept other posts of comparable status, and to assure them that their salary position will be fully safeguarded.

We have decided that consideration of the general question of the safeguarding of teachers' salaries under re-organisation be deferred pending the outcome of national negotiations or the next Burnham Report, but that the Waltham Forest Joint Consultative Committee of Teachers be informed that the Council is fully alive to the importance of this matter and intends to implement fully any agreement that may be reached by the Burnham machinery.

SCHEDULE
A. GENERAL STATEMENT
The Council propose to establish as their long term solution a two-tier organisation with transfer at 14, i.e. at the end of the third secondary year. This would extend over the whole of the Authority's area. There is one aided Roman Catholic Secondary School within the Borough: discussion with the Roman Catholic Authorities has taken place informally, and those Authorities have agreed to re-organise on the same lines provided the Council assist them to find a site for a second secondary school. The Roman Catholic Authorities suggested that the Council might be able to make available to them a school building and site surplus to the Council's needs, and a proposal to this effect is made later in the detailed statement.
There is one independent school in the Borough (Forest School), but the Council do not take places there, and they assist with fees only in exceptional cases, The Council at present take about four places a year at Bancrofts School which is a Direct Grant School just outside the Borough (in fact in Redbridge). It is not thought that so few places are a significant factor in the Borough's plan for re-organisation since there will, for some time to come, be persons who have some special connection with the school which the Council would not wish to break at present.

B. DETAILED STATEMENT
(1) Appendix 'A' shows the proposals for individual schools. Although the Council wish to bring in re-organisation as quickly as possible, they do not think that this can be done in 1967, even though the age group which enters secondary education that year will be at school until 16+. The reason is that the present selective schools which are to become senior secondary schools will, with one exception, need to be expanded and improved since (a) they are old and inadequate for the present purpose and would need remodelling even as selective schools; (b), these senior high schools will bear the whole effect of the raising of the school leaving age; (c) to be satisfactory as senior secondary schools they need modifications to meet the requirements of an older age range of pupils.
(2) Until the Authority can be sure that there will be adequate and suitable accommodation in the senior secondary schools for the 14+ age groups on the conclusion of their junior secondary school course, they cannot put into force the transfer without selection from the primary schools to the junior secondary schools. There would be advantage in making the change in September, 1967, but unless the Department can assure the Authority of satisfactory Building Programmes for 1967/68 and 1968/69, it will be necessary to postpone the first year of the change to September, 1968.
Appendices 'B' and 'C' show the Building Programme proposals which are considered necessary.
(3)Apart from the need to meet the problem of transition from the present selective system to the new organisation, the Authority do not propose any interim arrangements. They regard the two-tier system they propose as a sound long-term solution [and as having advantages over a system of "all through" comprehensive schools with their long age range and largenumbers]. *NB part in square brackets crossed out in the bound copy of minutes.
(4) The Council (as the Department is already aware) wish to re-allocate the sum included in the 1965/66 Building Programme for a new secondary modern school in Verulam Avenue, Walthamstow. Their proposals for this re-allocation are included in the Appendices. There were no secondary school projects in the 1966/67 Building Programme.

(5) Although the Council attach great importance to the linking of particular junior secondary schools to particular senior secondary schools, and indeed, so far as is practicable, to the linking of particular primary schools with particular junior secondary schools, they intend to allow individual parents to "opt out" of the normal progression within linked schools at both 11 and at 14, insofar as places at other schools are available. Some elasticity in regard to under-age and over-age pupils, as has always existed in the transfer from primary schools to secondary schools, will be permitted where the interests of a particular child make earlier or later transfer appropriate, but the general principle that all children will move from the primary school to the junior secondary school at 11 years and will move from the junior secondary school to the senior secondary school at 14 years will be maintained.

(6) In order to ensure continuity in those aspects of the curriculum where it is essential and to bring about discussion and thought on both content and method in all fields of education, the Authority will encourage regular meetings of Head Teachers and subject teachers within each linked group. This will be in addition to any programme of curriculum discussion which may be set up for the Borough generally.

(7) In Appendix 'A' the term "VI Form" is used as defined by the Schools Council, that is, as embracing all pupils continuing beyond their fifth secondary year, together with any other pupils who have begun courses leading to 'A' level.
(8) The age groups for 1957-58, 1958-59 and 1959-60 at present in Primary Schools as follows:
In Catholic Primary Schools In all other Primary Schools
1957-58 230 (8 forms of 30) 2303 (77 forms of 30)
1958-59 260 (9 forms of 30) 2452 (82 forms of 30)
1959-60 233 (8 forms of 30) 2565 (86 forms of 30)

Using the normal basis of 30 per form, these figures justify an organisation which will accommodate an entry of 86 forms of non-catholic children, and of 8 forms of catholic children.
Growth beyond the 1959-60 age group must of course be allowed for, but the provision of accommodation for such growth must be left for later building programmes.

APPENDIX 'A' (SHOWING DETAILS OF EACH SCHOOL)
(Note; (1) The list is arranged in roughly geographical order from South to North; (2) Rolls as at January, 1966

Existing School Proposed future in long-term scheme.
1 Lake House Secondary Modern
Roll - 390 Junior Secondary School Mixed.Feeding (4 - Tom Hood) below. 5-form entry - 450 pupils.
2 Goodall Secondary Modern Mixed,
Roll - 419 This school will not be required as a 'county' school. It is proposed to offer the building and site to the Roman Catholic Authorities.
3 Ruckholt Secondary Modern Mixed.Roll - 433 Junior Secondary School Mixed. Feeding (4 - Tom Hood) below. . 5-form entry - 450 pupils.
4 Tom Hood Technical High School.Grammar/Technical 11-18. Roll - 338 Senior Secondary School Mixed 14-18 receiving pupils from (1 - Lake House) and (3 - Ruckholt ) above.10-form entry - 600 pupils 14-16 plus sixth form of 150-200.
5 Connaught Secondary Modern Girls' Roll - 469  Junior Secondary Girls'.
Feeding (7 - Leyton Girls' High) below. 5-form entry - 450 pupils.
6 Leyton Manor Secondary Modern Girls'
Roll - 348  Junior Secondary Girls'.
Feeding (7 - Leyton Girls' High) below. 5-form entry - 450 pupils.
7 Leyton High School for Girls. Grammar School, Girls 11-18.
Roll - 455 Senior Secondary School Girls' 14 - 18.
10-form entry - 600 pupils 14 - 16 plus sixth form of 150-200.
Fed by (5 - Connaught Girls) and (6 - Leyton Manor Girls) above.
8  George Mitchell Secondary Modern Boys'
Roll - 468  Junior Secondary School Boys'.
Feeding (10 - Leyton Boys' High) below. 5-form entry - 450 pupils.
9 Norlington Secondary Modern Boys' Roll - 426 Junior Secondary School Boys'
Feeding (10 - Leyton Boys' High) below, 5-form entry - 450 pupils
10 Leyton High School for Boys
Grammar School, Boys 11 - 18. Roll = 619 Senior Secondary School Boys 14 - 18.
10-form entry - 600 pupils 14-16 plus sixth form of 150-200.
Fed by (8 - George Mitchell) and (9 Norlington Boys') above.
11  Warwick. Secondary Modern Boys' Roll - 317 Junior Secondary School Boys'
Feeding (15 - Sir George Monoux ) below. 5-form entry - 450 pupils
12  Warwick Secondary Modern Girls! Roll - 360 Junior Secondary School Girls'
Feeding (16 - Walthamstow Girls' High) 5-form entry - 450 pupils.
13 Chapel End Secondary Modern Mixed. Roll - 466 Junior Secondary School Mixed.
Feeding (15 - Sir George Monoux) and (16 - Walthamstow Girls! High) below, 5-form entry - 450 pupils.
14 William Fitt Secondary Modern Mixed. Roll - 411 Junior Secondary School Mixed.
Feeding (15 - Sir George Monoux) and (16 - Walthamstow Girls' High) below. 5-form entry - 450 pupils.
15 Sir George Monoux School for Boys' Grammar 11 - 18. Roll - 573 Senior Secondary School Boys' 14 - 18.
10-form entry - 600 pupils 14-16 plus sixth form of 150-200. Fed by (11 - Warwick Boys), (13 - Chapel End) and (14 - William Fitt ) above.
16 Walthamstow High School for Girls'
Grammar 11 - 18. Roll - 471 Senior Secondary School Girls' 14 - 18.
10-form entry - 600 pupils 14 -16 plus
sixth form of 150-200. Fed by (12 - Warwick Girls'), (13 - Chapel End Mixed) and (14 - William Fitt) above.
17 Beaconsfield Secondary Modern Mixed
Roll - 319 Junior Secondary School Mixed - ultimately to be replaced by one large school (See Appendix '
Feeding (19 - William Morris) below. 4-form entry - 450 pupils.
18 William McGuffie Secondary ModernMixed.
Roll - 295 Junior Secondary School Mixed - ultimately to be replaced by one large school, (See Appendix ' Feeding (19 - William Morris) below. 4-form entry - 360 pupils.
19  William Morris Technical High.
Grammar/ Technical 11 - 18, Roll - 450  Senior Secondary School Mixed 14 - 18.
9-form entry - 540 pupils 14 - 16 plus sixth form of 180.
Fed by (17 - Beaconsfield Secondary Modern) (18 - William McGuffie Secondary Modern)
20 Willowfield Secondary Modern Mixed. Roll - 336 Junior Secondary School Mixed.
Feeding (22 - McEntee Technical) below. 5-form entry - 450 pupils,
21 Sidney Chaplin Secondary Modern Mixed.
Roll - 410  Junior Secondary School Mixed.
Feeding (22 - McEntee Technical) below. 5-form entry - 450 pupils.
22 McEntee Technical School
Mixed Grammar/Technical 11 - 18. Roll - 557 Senior Secondary School Mixed 14 - 18. 10-form entry - 600 pupils 14 - 16 plus sixth form of 150-200. Fed by (20 - Willowfield Secondary) and (21 - Sidney Chaplin Secondary) above.
23 Heathcote Secondary Modern Mixed Roll - 481 Junior Secondary School Mixed
Feeding (24 - Sidney Burnell Secondary) below 8-form entry - 720 pupils.
24 Sidney Burnell Secondary Modern Mixed
Roll - 452  Senior Secondary School Mixed 14 - 18.
8-form entry - 480 pupils 14 - 16 plus sixth form of 120-160.
Fed by (23 - Heathcote Secondary) above.
25 Chingford Secondary Modern Boys' Roll - 469 Junior Secondary School Boys'
Feeding (27 - Chingford High School Mixed) 5-form entry - 450 pupils.
26 Chingford Secondary Modern Girls' Roll - 444 Junior Secondary School Girls'
Feeding (27 - Chingford High School Mixed) 5-form entry - 450 pupils
27 Chingford High School Mixed Grammar 11 - 18,
Roll - 526, Senior Secondary School Mixed 14 - 18. 10-form entry - 600 pupils 14 - 16 plus sixth form of 150-200.
Fed by (25 - Chingford Secondary Boys') and (26 - Clungford Secondary Girls') above,

ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
Subject to further discussions with the Roman Catholic Authorities it is suggested that the existing
St, George's R, C, Secondary School (Secondary Modern) and the present County Secondary Modern School of Goodall (No, 2 above) shall form a two-tier system on the same basis as the rest of the Borough, and that the taking of places at Roman Catholic selective schools outside the Borough will then be discontinued.

APPENDIX 'B' - BUILDING PROPOSALS DURING INTERIM STAGE 1967-70. REFERENCE IS MADE WHERE NECESSARY TO PROPOSALS FOR 1970-72 IN CONNECTION WITH THE RAISING OF THE SCHOOL LEAVING AGE,

Schools are numbered as Appendix 'A' ("None" does not exclude the sort of minor improvements which would be required if schools continued in present use).
1.Lake House NONE
2. Goodall
3.Ruckholt Extensions to playground desirable. not possible to estimate.
4.Tom Hood Improvements and extensions £80,000 from Verulam Avenue project 1965/66. Further extensions in 1969/70 or 1970/71 to allow for the raising of the school leaving age. Site extension to 5 acres planned and necessary.
5.Connaught Girls' NONE
6.Ley ton Manor Girls' NONE '
7.Leyton Girls' High Extensions to increase capacity from present 550 to 750/800,
First instalment in 1968/69.
8.George Mitchell The school needs extensive re-modelling to provide indoor lavatories, proper dining facilities, etc., but it does not require extension.
9.Norlington Road Boys' NONE - but some extensions to site.
10.Leyton Boys' High Extensions to increase capacity from 600 to 800; additional specialist rooms; laboratories need re-modelling; lavatories and washrooms also. First stage included in proposed 1967/68 programme.
11. Warwick Boys' Re-modelling Scheme prepared several years ago will cost probably £80, 000 in all. First stage included in Verulam Avenue money 1965/66; probably about £20, 000.
12. Warwick Girls' NONE
13.Chapel End Improvements needed, but not extension,
14.William Fitt NONE
15.Sir George Monoux Extensions to increase capacity and to modernise a 1929 building: laboratories: VI form block and specialist rooms.
16.Walthamstow Girls' High Extensions to increase capacity from 550 to 750/800. Facilities generally satisfactory apart from total size.
17.Beaconsfield ) These two old elementary schools on restricted sites need to be
18.William McGuffie ) replaced by one new purpose-built junior Secondary School of 9-10 form entry. Until this can be done, minor alterations will keep them tolerable within their present deficiencies of site and building.
19. William Morris Technical This old elementary school, on a very restricted site needs to be replaced by a new purpose built Senior High School on a new site. Until this can be done, an improvement scheme using Verulam money will make the situation tolerable within limits. Cost ? £20, 000.
20. Willowfield NONE
21. Sidney Chaplin Some additional accommodation likely to be necessary in view of housing developments - probably £50, 000 in 1969/70.
22. McEntee Technical NONE - existing capacity 850
23. Heathcote Some additional classrooms, say £20, 000
24. Sidney Burnell Some additional accommodation for Science and VI forms, say £40, 000 in 1969/70.
25. Chingford Boys' NONE
26. Chingford Girls' NONE
27. Chingford High Considerable extensions, since this is basically a two-form entry pre-war Grammar School First stage included in 1967/68 ; programme. Second stage must be in 1969/70. Total accommodation number about 550, increase of 200 places necessary.

APPENDIX 'C' - SUMMARY OF BUILDING REQUIREMENTS FOR SECONDARY RE-ORGANISATION - BY PROGRAMME YEARS.
County Projects
1965-66 - Verulam Avenue School provision (£240, 000 net) re-allocated to:
(1) Tom Hood Technical High School (Senior Secondary School)
The school is basically still a 19th century three-decker elementary school, with some later additions. Modernisation is needed. Steps are being taken to obtain extension to site.
(2)Sir George Monoux Grammar School for Boys (Senior Secondary School)
This is a Grammar School of the 1920's under-provided for Science and VI formers. Modernisation and extension of practical rooms, plus VI form accommodation is needed.
(3)William Morris Technical High School (Senior Secondary School)
This is a 19th century elementary school with considerable later additions but on a very small site. Rebuilding elsewhere is the right solution, but some improvements are necessary to make the school tolerable for another five years.
(4)Warwick Secondary School for Boys (Junior Secondary School)
Plans for remodelling this as a Secondary Modern School were prepared some years ago but never carried out. It is basically a 19th century elementary school with some later additions. A gymnasium, modern lavatories, and a staff room are the minimum requirements. An Assembly Hall is also required.

1966-67 - There were no secondary or primary projects for Waltham Forest in this year.

1967-68 - The Authority has submitted a programme including
(1) Leyton High School for Boys
Additions and improvements - Stage I - £80, 000
(2)Chingford High School (Mixed)
Additions and improvements - Stage I - £80, 000
(These two projects are the first stage of adaptions and extensions to enlarge these schools to meet their new role. The second stage will come within the programme designed to meet the raising of the school age).

1968/69 - The Authority will submit a programme which will probably include:
Leyton High School for Girls .
Additions and improvements - Stage I - £80, 000
Walthamstow High School for Girls
Additions and improvements:;(complete and includes provision for the raising of the school leaving age)- £100, 000

1969/70 - The Authority will submit a programme which will probably include:
Sir George Monoux Grammar School (Senior Secondary School) Stage II £60, 000 (approx.)
Tom Hood Technical High School (Senior Secondary School) Stage II £60, 000 (approx. )
Chingford High School (Senior Secondary School) Stage II £70, 000 (approx. )
(These are basic needs to meet the raising of the school leaving age)

1970/71 - The Authority will submit a programme which will probably include: Leyton High School for Boys (Senior Secondary School)
Stage II £60, 000 (approx. )
Leyton High School for Girls (Senior Secondary School) Stage II £60, 000 (approx. )
(These are basic needs to meet the raising of the school leaving age)
(b) Voluntary Projects
There will be need for the following projects by the Roman Catholic Authorities:
(1) St. George's R. C. Secondary School - extension.
(2) Goodall Secondary School - remodelling
Possible figures are £40, 000 for (1) and £100, 000 for (2), but everything depends on the number of Roman Catholic pupils who will be catered for within the Borough, and how many continue to go outside,
The total "county" projects, excluding Verulam, amount to £650, 000 - although the projects are not yet costed, But £650, 000 spread over four years is not excessive since it includes the raising of the school leaving age.
There will remain many other improvement projects, notably the rebuilding of the William Morris Senior Secondary School and of Beaconsfield/William McGuffie, and the remodelling of George Mitchell Secondary School. One major project a year from 1971 onward should bring about a satisfactory position around 1975.

SOUTH WEST ESSEX TECHNICAL COLLEGE - ADDITIONAL ACCOMMODATION
The Governors of the South West Essex Technical College and our Further Education Sub-Committee have grown increasingly concerned at the difficulties encountered by the College in matters of accommodation. The conditions at the Hoe Street Annexe in particular are unsatisfactory and call for immediate improvement, especially as the numbers of students in the courses housed there are likely to grow. We do not expect that the proposed new College of Further Education will be in existence for some years at least. Our Chairman and the Chairman of our Further Education Sub-Committee have visited the annexe and have discussed the problem with the Chief Education Officer and the Acting Principal.

July 1st 1966
Change Over Next Year?
A DETAILED plan for the soon-as-possible introduction of comprehensive secondary schooling in Waltham Forest will be submitted for Government approval from the monthly council meeting to-night (Friday).
One of the shock features of the scheme is the scheduled closure, in July, 1967, of another Waltham Forest School, Goodall Secondary. The buildings in Goodall Road, Leyton, will be offered to the Roman Catholic authorities for possible conversion to a Church school.
Two Walthamstow schools, George Gascoigne and Mark House, are closing later this month.
Under the comprehensive plan already approved by the borough Education Committee there will be 17 junior secondary schools feeding nine senior secondary schools. All children will transfer at the age of 14.
The borough's eight grammar and technical schools - Sir George Monoux, Walthamstow High, Leyton Boys High, Leyton Girls High, Chingford High, McEntee Technical, William Morris Technical and Tom Hood Technical, will become the senior secondary schools.
The ninth senior secondary school will be Sidney Burnell School in Highams Park, linking up with a new junior secondary school being created at Heathcote School, Chingford.
Introduction of the comprehensive system in Waltham Forest could take place in September, 1967. But this will be possible only if the Government gives its blessings to the early stages of a £900,000 school improvement building programme planned for the next five years. .
Delay, unless
"Unless the Department of Education and Science can assure us of satisfactory building programmes for the next two financial years, it will be necessary to postpone the first year of the change to September, 1968," the Council will tell the Government, in its detailed plan.
Lion's share of the planned improvements will be in the senior secondary schools, most of which must be enlarged to cope with increased numbers and to provide advanced teaching facilities for a school roll composed entirely of fourth, fifth and sixth- formers. "Until we can be sure that there will be suitable and adequate accommodation in the senior secondary schools for the 14-plus age group, on the conclusion of their junior secondary course, we cannot put into force the transfer without selection from the primary schools to the junior secondary schools" says the Council statement.
An assurance previously given by the Education Committee has been restated this week. All children who have begun a grammar or technical school course before the new system is introduced will be permitted to complete the course.
This means that only in their early years the new secondary schools will be two schools in one catering for a slowly diminishing number of selective scholars who will be "relics" of the old system plus a yearly intake of 14-plus children of all abilities.
Goodall School Leyton, is due to close at the end of next school year. No 11-year-old children will be admitted this September. Headmaster Mr John Binner is being offered a transfer to George Mitchell School Leyton to succeed Mr Frank Bassett, who is retiring soon.

Assurance to teachers

The Headmasters of Heathcote School Chingford, Mt Ronald Woods and of Sidney Burnell School, Highams Park, Mr H.G. Paul are also being warned that they may be asked to take new posts when the reorganisation begins.
Teachers receive this assurance from their employers, the Council: "We are fully alive to the importance of the safeguarding of salaries, under the reorganisation, and we will implement fully any agreement that may be reached by the Burnham machinery.
The Council statement to the government stresses that 1967 would be a desirable time to introduce the changeover. But this is not possible until the necessary work on the new senior secondary schools, they will bear the full cost of raising the school leaving age to 16, has been authorised.
2We regard the two tier system now proposed as a sound long-term solution and as having advantages over a system of "all through" comprehensive schools with their long age range and large numbers," says the Council statement.
The statement admits that the Council attaches great importance to linking particular junior secondary schools to specified senior secondary schools, one will feed the other. But parents are assured that they will be given a chance to state a preference as to which schools their children attend. Wishes will be honoured, if places are available.
The Council will encourage regular meetings of head teachers and subject teachers within each linked group, in the borough as a whole.

Eight Groups
Waltham Forest's secondary schools will be divided into eight groups under the scheme suggested to the Government. Here are the groupings:

Walthamstow
Junior Secondary Schools
Warwick Boys (450 pupils), Warwick Girls (450), Chapel End (450),
feeding Secondary Senior Schools,
Sir George Monoux (600) and Walthamstow Girls High (600)
Junior Schools,
Beaconsfield (450), and William McGuffie (300)
Feeding Senior School William Morris Technical (540)
Junior Schools,
Willowfield (450) and Sidney Chaplin (450)
Feeding Senior School McEntee

Leyton
Junior Schools
Lake House (450), and Ruckholt (450)
Feeding Senior School
Tom Hood Technical (600)
Junior Schools
Connaught Girls (450) and Leyton Manor Girls (450)
Feeding Senior School Leyton Girls High (600)
Junior Schools
George Mitchell Boys (450) and Norlington Boys (450)
Feeding Senior School
Leyton Boys High (600)

Highams Park Chingford
Junior School
Heathcote (720)
Feeding Senior School
Sidney Burnell (480)

Chingford
Junior Schools
Chingford Boys (450) and Chingford Girls (450)
Feeding Senior School
Chingford High (600)

Building Plans
Extensions to most of the new senior secondary schools will form the basis of future building programmes submitted by Waltham Forest Council for Government approval.
But there are more ambitious proposals for William Morris tech where the old group of buildings need to be replaced by a new purpose built senior high school.
Another long term plan is to replace Beaconsfield and William McGuffie schools in Walthamstow with a single purpose built junior secondary school.
Abandonment of the scheme to build an all-age comprehensive school in Verulam Avenue Walthamstow, has left the Council with £240,000 in the education building "kitty."
This money is being spent on immediate improvements to Tom Hood Technical, Leyton; Sir George Monoux Grammar, William Morris Technical and Warwick Boys Walthamstow.
These are the projects due for submission in years to come as part of the reorganisation scheme and the raising of the leaving age to 16.
1967-68 - Additions and improvements to Leyton Boys High (£80,000) and Chingford High (£80,000).
1968-69 - Additions and improvements to Walthamstow Girls High (£100,000) and Leyton Girls High (£80,000).
1969-70 - Stage two improvements to Sir George Monoux Grammar (£60,000) Tom Hood Technical (£60,000), and Chingford High (£70,000).
1970-71 - Stage two improvements to Leyton Boys High (£60,000), and Leyton Girls High (£60,000).