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This collection of documents has been filed by Jane Matthews, Senior Mistress of Oakham School. They related to H.M.C. Co-Educational Group Meetings of Senior Mistresses, resources for staff and pupils regarding wellbeing, maternity leave, health, and various correspondence. The collection spreads over a few years from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s.

The items in this file are all letters sent or received by Jane Matthews on various pastoral issues at Oakham School or the planning of H.M.C. Co-Educational Group Meetings.

A letter to the housemasters and heads of schools about the poor behaviour of pupils in the town smoking and general lack of respect in cafes and by hotels.

A series of correspondence and maps to Jane Matthews regarding a variety of topics such as accomodation for Australian visitors, minutes of the Senior Mistresses' Regional Meeting and the Minutes of the Midlands Division, a map to Bryanston School, and a confidential letter about a controversy over childline posters.

A letter from R.N.P. Griffiths, Membership Secretary of the H.M.C., to all members of the H.M.C. regarding the Childline poster to display in schools.

A letter from Gail Hayward, Senior Mistress of Bromsgrove School, enclosing the minutes of the Senior Mistresses' Regional Meeting. Contents of the minutes include Staff in Sport, Staffing and Manning in Boarding House, and Attracting Women into Senior Position in Co-Educational Schools. Six pages numbered A to F.

A letter from the head about the Haileybury Group Meeting and a visit to a camp by the CCF and the concern over whether wearing a unifrom will make them a target of the IRA.

A letter from Janet D. Pickering, Senior Mistress at the King's School, Canterbury, to Jane Matthews, Senior Mistress at Oakham School, regarding the Giggleswick meeting

A letter from Claire Moreland, Housemistress at Bradley House, Rugby, to Jane Matthews on not attending the mistresses' meeting at Kimbolton School but sending another staff Lizzie Matthews

A telephone message from Lizzie Marsden, at Rugby School, to Jane Matthews regarding the HMC Conference at Kimbolton School