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Separately the
Education
Department conducts a
Combined Screening Programme of all Primary 1 pupils in order
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to detect visual, hearing, speech and learning disabilities.
The results of this screening are conveyed to the schools
concerned.
l.c. from Physical Education lessons
It is also the practice of schools to exempt pupils
or outdoor activities should
request on medical grounds.
Indeed
their parents so
a number
of schools, especially at the primary level, write
level, write to parents
their
at
the beginning of each school year, asking whether l.c. children need
children need to be exempted from Physical Education lessons
for health reasons.
In view of the measures that I have just described,
Sir,
I do not consider it necessary or practical to require parents
to submit formal medical reports to the school authorities on
registration.
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