Learning Support
Te Whare Akoranga, Burnside High School’s Learning Support Department is a student-focused learning hub.
They welcome students who find learning challenging. The team consists of highly qualified, experienced teaching and support staff from a diverse range of backgrounds.
What we do
We support students, who find learning in a traditional manner challenging. We enable them to learn and to access the curriculum in ways that they can respond too. We actively work to remove barriers to learning in order to raise individual achievement results. This enables individual students to gain skills and develop confidence to not only cope with their academic studies, but also to enable them to become an active and contributing member of society. We understand that everyone learns differently and some students need additional support.
We build on student strengths and work collaboratively with parents, caregivers, whānau, deans, class teachers, counsellors, and external agencies, including Resource Teachers of Learning and Behaviour (RTLB), physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech language therapists, where we place the student’s needs at the heart of all that we do.
Services we offer
Learning support teachers lead in the following areas:
- Year 9 Literacy focusing on developing and gaining confidence in literacy skills
- Year 10 Literacy Boost programme – to enhance literacy skills in preparation for Year 11
- Providing learning assistants in classrooms
- 1:1 Tutoring, including Year 13 Reading Tutors, Learning Assistants Monday morning sessions
- Supervised Te Kura programmes
- Mentors who work with students who have specific learning needs
- Diagnostic Testing
- Identification and provision of Special Assessment Conditions (SACs) for assessments
- Learning information available for staff
We value the input of families and whānau to inform our support.
