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Kia Ora welcome to Parkside School.
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Introduction
Parkside is one of the leading schools for those students who fall into the broad categories of profound, severe and moderate disability. We offer a Functional Curriculum, designed to respond to the unique characteristics of students who have needs that cannot be met by the regular school curriculum.
Programme Based on Priorities
The focus of our teaching is to provide an Individualized Education Programme (I.E.P.) relevant to the unique needs and abilities of each student.
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Some Key Features
The five main areas for Personal Development are:
Self-help
Communication
Socialisation
Fine and Gross – Motor Co-ordination
Cognitive and Functional Academic Skills
The school curriculum includes experiences which are:
Humanly appropriate,
Nationally appropriate,
Culturally appropriate,
Individually appropriate,
Educationally appropriate.
In accord with the New Zealand Curriculum Parkside School fosters:
Achievement and success for all students,
Flexibility to respond to each student's learning,
The provision of learning which is relevant, meaningful and useful to students,
The provision of opportunities to learn the essential skills to the best of the child's ability.
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Other Activities
Art and Craft
Community Integration
Computer Training
Cooking
Horse Riding
Leisure and Recreation
Music Therapy
Swimming & Water Therapy
Physio-therapy & Massage
Special Needs
Special needs students include those with communication and hearing disorders, visual impairments, physical disabilities, intellectual disabilities, behavioural disorders, and multiple disabilities. These include conditions such as Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy, Spinal Cord injury, Brain Damage, Down's Syndrome, Rett's Syndrome and Autistic tendencies. Some students such as those described as physchopaedic are characterised by severe functional multiple disabilities. Their development delays may have been caused by a genetic irregularity, prenatal hazard, birth injury or postnatal trauma. Most require highly structured care and / or educational programmes to attain their maximum level of functioning.
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Integration
The aim of our integration programme is to foster the social and functional development of our students by joining regular classes for specific activities and having access to social activities – to facilitate those measures and practices which maximise the person's participation in the mainstream of his / her culture and society.
The key element to emphasize is that integration goes beyond the mere physical placement of students with special needs into mainstream environments. Rather, it must be seen in terms of relationships; expressed as the maximum useful association between people with disabilities and others, consistent with the interests of both!
Supportive environment
Formal and informal meetings provide a forum for the exchange of information, and are directed toward making parents and caregivers better consumers and advocates. This can involve a variety of topics and activities, depending on the parent's needs.
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