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The Greenhouse - Literacy Support

Our Special Education personnel develop and provide programmes specific to the needs of children with a variety of learning deficits or special aptitudes.  

Disabilities range from severe impairment to just one area of learning difficulty, while giftedness can require an extension programme.

Teachers, teacher aides and peer tutors staff the Special Education Department.  They use a wide range of diagnostic techniques to monitor pupils' progress.

In addition they:          
  • Give withdrawal and in-class help
  • Set regular home/school remedial work
  • Design suitable programmes
  • Make appropriate resources
  • Have regular conferencing with staff
  • Hold Individual Education Plan meetings
  • Generally provide an environment that supports and motivates the learners.

What Students say:

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Working on the Lexia computer programme.
We come to the Green House four times a week for extra help with our reading, writing and spelling.  We do heaps of work like computer skills and ‘Lexia Cross Trainer’. Cross Trainer is a programme on the computer that is a bit like a ‘Playstation’, but it’s more to do with map skills and thinking games.  One of the activities is called ‘Tangrams’. There is a picture made with shapes displayed on the left of the screen and you have to match this picture with the shapes on the right side of the screen. As it gets harder, the picture on the left only stays on the screen for a few seconds so you have to create the image from memory. 

We also learn a heap of computer skills like how to copy and paste pictures onto our work. 




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 NEW AMBASSADORS programme

Students from each form class have recently been enlisted into the AMBASSADORS programme: a new initiative that encourages students to share their knowledge or newly acquired skills with at least five others at the school. The idea of empowering students to empower others draws upon teaching and learning approaches from the Te Ao Māori.

The tuakana–teina relationship, an integral part of traditional Māori society, provides a model for buddy systems. An older or more expert tuakana (brother, sister or cousin) helps and guides a younger or less expert teina (originally a younger sibling or cousin of the same gender). In a learning environment that recognises the value of ako, the tuakana–teina roles may be reversed at any time.

​This first trial involves the roll out of three learning apps that are useful for all students in a variety of contexts; READ ALOUD - a text to speech voice reader, READER VIEW - a web page decluttering tool, and VOICE TYPING - a dictation tool.

Our AMBASSADORS will be able to provide support in the classroom to others as well as share their knowledge with teachers, friends, parents and younger siblings.

​Over the next few months, our learning support coordinators (LSCs), Nicole Manson and Melanie Mott, will be introducing the AMBASSADOR programme to other Golden Bay schools.  For more information on the three apps please play the slide below or check out the PDF HERE.
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