Learning Diversity 

Lorna Stranieri

Welcome back to the school year. I hope that you all had a wonderful and restful holiday. My name is Lorna Stranieri and I am the Learning Diversity Leader. My role is to help manage our funding program for students with additional needs, which is called the National Consistent Collection of Data (NCCD). A key part of this role is helping to coordinate Parent Support Group Meetings (PSGs), Personal Learning Plans (PLPs) and Speech Pathology services each term.  This is my second term at the school as I began here in Term 4 of 2022. It is very nice to come back to familiar faces and I look forward to working with all the families this year to ensure that each child is set up for success.  

 

School of The Good Shepherd works hard to do everything possible to support the learning of each individual child in our care. Our Classroom, Target and Intervention Teachers and Co Educators are extremely dedicated to planning and teaching a diverse curriculum that meets the needs of every student at our school. We offer academic support programs in Target Teaching for Reading, Writing and Mathematics. These programs are offered to groups of students with common needs or strengths, at frequent and regular intervals, to improve their learning outcomes. Leaders, Classroom Teachers or Intervention Teachers may implement programs within the classroom environment or within other school learning areas.

 

The school also offers a Seasons for Growth program, Counselling and Speech Pathology

services for students who require these and fit the criteria, as well as alternate lunch and recess programs.