In general, the Learning Support Program is available to children who may have physical, intellectual, sensory or emotional impairments. 

A Learning Support Teacher and Learning Support Assistant/s are employed on a part-time basis. Our model aims to support special needs children to cope adequately within the mainstream. This is achieved by working with children in class and also withdrawing children individually and in small groups when needed. 

The Learning Support Teachers and Assistants are resource personnel, offering support to teachers and parents of our special children. It is a team approach utilising the many talents of children, parents and teachers, as well as educational and medical professionals. 

Gifted and Talented Program
St Cecilia’s aims to provide a challenging and comprehensive curriculum for all students, including those that are identified as gifted and talented.

Staff aim to identify students who are talented or gifted and to ensure that the school and the curriculum implemented in the classroom responds to, and provides for their individual needs.

Staff working with parents and resource personnel will collaboratively determine appropriate programs and strategies for individual students and monitor the student’s progress toward predetermined goals. 

The school, where possible, will provide flexible extension and enrichment programs for gifted and talented students. Options that may be employed include special ability groupings, opportunities for enrichment days off campus, individual learning contracts, mentoring, classroom enrichment and extension, the provision of varied teaching strategies (de Bono, Bloom’s Taxonomy, Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences etc) and acceleration, (subject, curriculum content, or year level).

Staff professional development needs will be ascertained annually to ensure individual differences in our students are identified and best catered for.