The school has a wide variety of integrated support services available which are matched to both individuals and groups of students as required. The range of supports available included counselling, learning support, educational assessments, study skills, homework clubs, supervised study, peer mentoring, class teacher, home/school community liaison teacher, “meitheal” student leaders, and the school completion programme.
The Learning Support Service identifies students who may have literacy or numeracy difficulties.
Students may then be withdrawn to work individually or in small groups with the L.S. teacher or the L.S. teacher may team teach with a subject teacher.
Students who have RACE accomodations are also worked with.
The aim of the Behaviour Support Classroom is to provide a short term, intensive and individualised intervention for selected students.
The social and emotional behaviour of the student as well as their academic work is addressed through this intervention. The level of intervention given to students in the BSC is more intensive than that given in the Support Center. We have one full time teacher and an art therapist working in the BSC.
One of the key aims is to empower marginalised parents by nurturing their capacity to engage as partners in the education of their children. Marginalised pupils are those presenting in school with complex social, emotional, health and developmental needs that are barriers to learning. The Home School Community Liaison scheme reaches out beyond the school walls to the homes and communities from which our pupils come. The HSCL Co-ordinator supports parents through home visits, classes for parents and community members and through involvement with agencies working in the community. The HSCL Co-ordinator works closely with all support services in the school.