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Welcome to Suneden Special School

Description: Description: Suneden Special SchoolOverview

Suneden Special School was founded in 1943. It is a private, low-fee paying, non-denominational school that caters for children with intellectual and multiple disabilities. The children in the school are aged between 5 and 21 years.

Suneden is located in Mitchell Park, which is a central-southern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.

Suneden prides itself on providing a caring and educationally stimulating environment for its 40 – 50 students. With small class sizes and a high staff to student ratio, educational programmes are tailored to suit the individual child.

Suneden has close links with a number of external agencies to assist with our provision of programmes, including Disability SA, Autism SA, Novita, Minda Inc., Respite Services and various workplace providers including Bedford Industries and Orana and Phoenix.  The school offers practicum placements to students undertaking University degrees including Teaching, Disability Studies, Psychology, Speech Pathology, Occupational Therapy and Medicine.   We also offer placements to students undertaking TAFE courses and to year 11 & 12 students participating in community studies or work experience.

All teaching staff hold the required qualifications to enable registration with the Teachers Registration Board of SA, together with additional diplomas, degrees or certificates in aspects of Special Education.  Many of our Education Support Officers have qualifications in Special Education.

Our workforce of both male and female staff includes an indigenous art specialist.

Philosophy

Our philosophy is based on the principles that our students have the right to:

  • Dignity
  • Respect
  • Inclusion within our society
  • An appropriate curriculum which is as close as practicable to that provided in all schools
  • Special programmes that enable the above to be achieved

 


 
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