Learning Support
The learning support team is a whole campus planning support mechanism to ensure that the needs of students in the campus are being met. The leaning support team considers there implications across the following areas:
- Individual student needs
- Whole school planning
- Support for individual teachers
The membership of the team is flexible dependent on the needs that are being addressed. When the needs of individual students are being discussed, the learning support team bring together the people who can assist in the development of appropriate learning support plans and programmes. The learning support plan is used as a pivotal focus for the identification of priorities and goals and actions for children who are working within their age appropriate stage, but due to disabilities (learning and emotional) are working towards achieving outcomes at their functional level. This may not necessarily be at their age appropriate stage.
At St Andrew's Cathedral School's Gawura campus, our students are supported by the learning support team in the following ways:
- The appraisal and regular reappraisal of their support needs.
- Collaborative decision making about appropriate learning outcomes.
- The provision of appropriate support to achieve learning outcomes.
- The development of teaching and learning programs to achieve these outcomes.
The School learning support team determines the School's needs and priorities based on a range of information sources such as staff referrals, curriculum based assessment, basic skills tests, ongoing monitoring and information from other teams. Based on this information, the learning support team collaboratively decides on actions which may include the revision of school structures and policies, planning and implementing training and development, determining resources, evaluating programmes.
