Junior School
The major focus of the Junior School program is to develop language and communication skills. We strive to integrate the students into the school by using their existing strengths to develop a program in conjuction with parents, therapists and specialist staff that is appropriate for the individual's needs.
Literacy and the development of speaking and listening, early reading and writing are designed around a 'central idea' for the term and the use of big books. Understanding of the concept of print is encouraged through dramatisation of story, learning of dialogue and joining in the reading of stories.
Numeracy covers a wide range of activities including understanding of number, measurement and space at an individual's level of understanding. Cooking, science and technology are an important part of the understanding of maths in a practical sense as the students are guided in weighing, measuring, time taken to complete a task and the calculations of recording the processes.
Through the integration of fine motor skills and art the students learn to use the fine muscles of the arms and hands, develop strength in important muscles and understand the importance of using these little muscles to become independent in buttoning clothing and unzipping bags.
In the Junior School's Program the staff believe in using every moment of each day as a chance for each student to learn and develop new skills.