Cheshire School is an interim specialist school for primary aged students with complex social, emotional and behavioural difficulties.
Cheshire School essentially provides a “stepping stone” that is aimed at enabling students to successfully re-integrate into a mainstream school, equipped with a healthy self-esteem, established work habits and acceptable ways of behaving and managing challenging situations.
The program at Cheshire School has been designed to provide particular focus on those aspects of a student’s personal and social capabilities that will support and enhance their capacity to be successful as learners and as healthy citizens of our broader community. Learning opportunities are therefore targeted at supporting students to engage in a range of opportunities that are aimed at:
- recognising and regulating emotions
- developing empathy for others and understanding relationships
- establishing and building emotions
- making responsible decisions
- working effectively in teams
- handling challenging situations constructively and with resilience, and
- developing leadership skills
Underpinning the program, however, remains a strong focus and commitment to English and Mathematics along with integrated and inquiry units which ensure that curriculum entitlement is met for each and every student.