CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

The school is committed to identifying children with special learning needs and addressing barriers to their learning.

These programmes are supported in terms of Ministry of Education funding and the Board of Trustees locally raised funds. 

Some of the ways of addressing these barriers are by providing specialist programmes and support for children whose learning shows they are most in need, and who fit our resourcing abilities. 

Our Special Needs Co-ordinator is responsible for our Special Needs programme.   

Parents with children on special needs programmes, receive written notification and have opportunities to discuss their concerns. 

The following programmes are resourced at Glendowie Primary: 

• Reading Recovery - for children who are six and most needy, as evident in the “observation survey” assessment.

• Remedial Reading

            - Rainbow Reading     

             - Pause, Prompt, Praise (P.P.P.)

             - Self Pacing Boxes Tactile

             - Kinesthetic Early Reading programme 5 – 6 year olds.

• In-class Support   - Teacher-Aides in some classrooms, supporting small groups and individual learning.

• Computer programmes networked, supporting reading and language.

• The following resource personnel are also utilized within the school, and are accepted into the following specialist programme according to application criteria:  

Maths

In-class support in small groups, with trained teacher aides, especially to support numeracy.

E.S.O.L.

English as a second language children have identified support programmes. (See further information on this site).

Gifted and Talented

The school provides special support for our gifted and talented children.  This includes identifying the children, and looking at ways to support their learning.

In-class support includes individualized learning and grouping children with similar abilities for subject areas and interests. 

Additional support programmes operate in the school: 

-                     Cross-class ability grouping for Math’s  Yr.5 – 8.

-                     One Day Gifted School programme (GKP) at Tamaki Intermediate.

          (see further information on this site).

-                     Applications for the George Parkyn Gifted programme.

-                     Correspondence School.

-                     Kings-on-Line (Math’s) Yr.7 – 8.

-                     German District Competition  Yr.7 – 8.

-                     Otago Math’s Challenge  Yr.7 – 8.

-                     APPA Special District Competition  Yr.5 – 8.

-                     Australian Math’s and Australian English (New South Wales University).

-                     Yr.5 - 6 Mathematics Achievement Challenge programme  Yr.5 – 6.

-                     Computer extension, enrichment programmes.

-                     Science Fair.

-                     Zone representations for spelling ability.

-                    Orchestra.