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As the title implies this programme looks at the application of policy at a large urban comprehensive school. In addition to hearing from policy makers at various points in the hierarchy in the sch...ool, we also see and hear from the students. An important aim of this film is by means of actuality footage to present the viewer with a flavour of the place, thus for instance, we eavesdrop at one point on the Head of the lower school as he deals with a truant who has just returned during the mid-day "surgery" which he runs in his study daily.
As the title implies this programme looks at the application of policy at a large urban comprehensive school. In addition to hearing from policy makers at various points in the hierarchy in the sch...ool, we also see and hear from the students. An important aim of this film is by means of actuality footage to present the viewer with a flavour of the place, thus for instance, we eavesdrop at one point on the Head of the lower school as he deals with a truant who has just returned during the mid-day "surgery" which he runs in his study daily.
| Module code and title: | E222, The control of education in Britain |
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| Item code: | E222; 06 |
| First transmission date: | 10-08-1979 |
| Published: | 1979 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:30 |
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| Producer: | Gwynn Pritchard |
| Presenter: | Colin Morgan |
| Contributors: | Norman Lease; Glyn Williams; Ewart Pryer; Bob Dawkins; Alan Rainbow; Sian Powell |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Administration; Confrontation; Devolution; Discipline; Elitism |
| Footage description: | Opening shots show morning assembly at Fairwater School, Cwmbran. Over shots of the school's exterior Colin Morgan explains that the programme will examine the internal administration of the large comprehensive. Shots of an English lesson at Fairwater. Morgan describes the setting policy in use at the school. Film of the headmaster, Norman Lease, discussing school policy at a staff meeting. In interview Lease states his own philosophy of education. Film of the Lower School singing a hymn at assembly. Glyn Williams, head of the Lower School is seen addressing the assembly. Interviewed by Morgan, Williams describes how he sets standards of behaviour for his schoolchildren. Film of Williams conducting a lunch time surgery at which children bring a variety of problems. Prolonged footage of an interview with one boy who had run away from school. Morgan interviews Bob Dawkins, the head of the Middle School, who describes the kind of pastoral problems he has to deal with. Film of him discussing the problem of a pupil's pregnancy with Alan Rainbow, the school counsellor. Interview with Norman Lease, who explains what the role of a headmaster is in a large school. Shots of Ewart Pryor, who has responsibility for older pupils who will not be taking examinations Shots of him visiting a boy on work experience in a garage. In interview Pryor explains the purpose of giving pupils work experience. Shots of him visiting boys at work in a garden nursery. Morgan interviews Sian Powell, a Fairwater sixthformer who is to go on to Cambridge. She praises the school, but argues that it should introduce school uniforms. Interview with Lease who strongly refutes what he calls "academic cults and elitism". He restates his own philosophy of education. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/73148 |
| Production number: | FOUE006P |
| Videofinder number: | 956 |
| Available to public: | no |
