Special Groups and Support
Children are selected for the group or intervention that is most appropriate for their needs at the time. The members of some groups are rotated during the year to ensure all children have appropriate support and also to ensure they don't miss too much of the regular classroom programme. Child support workers work alongside children, individuals and groups, inside the classrooms to ensure they can access the curriculum.
Quick 60
This Programme has replaced our Reading Recovery Programme in an effort to share this valuable resource to impact a greater number of children. All children are tested using the 6 Year Survey ( Clay) when they turn 6. The groups are formed from the lowest scoring children who are not receiving any other form of Specialist Support. Any children not achieving at an appropriate level after an adequate period of instruction are referred to another Specialist i.e. The Resource Teacher of Literacy or The Resource Teacher of Learning and Behaviour. There are a number of other groups receiving this programme at various levels of the school according to need.
Agility with Sound
This Programme has been newly introduced in 2019 and is aimed at the Year 3 and 4 and 5 students focussing on building their phonological awareness and giving them extra small group support to remediate issues with their reading.
Intermediate Literacy Group Programme
Around 12 - 15 children from the Senior school (years 7/8)work in small groups with Mrs Clarke. They are following the Rev UP Programme which is part of the Quick 60 Programme and was especially developed for older students who are struggling with Reading. The focus is English Literacy aimed at the specific needs of the children.
Reading Support (yrs5/6)
Mrs Jenni Clarke co-ordinates the Reading Support Programme in the school which runs from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m. daily in the Library. A large team of volunteer tutors from the wider community are trained and scheduled to support the children from the middle and senior school who need daily reading practice. This programme provides up to 2 years improvement in reading levels for the children involved in one year by giving consistent, positive support. Mrs Clarke is also responsible for the initial testing of reading for new enrolments and the end of year testing from years 3 to 6.
Child Support Workers
A team of child support workers (teacher's aides) are supervised by Toni Nua to work along side children with ESOL, learning, behaviour or health needs in and outside the classroom as required. These workers are rostered on for playground duty at morning tea time daily. Child support workers carry out a specific programme provided for each individual child or group by the classroom teacher/specialist involved.