Learning Support

Paparimu School provides a wide variety of programmes for children who require learning support in various areas of the curriculum. 

On the basis of good quality assessment information, we identify

• students and groups of students who are not achieving 
• students and groups of students who are at risk of not achieving 
• students and groups of students who have special learning needs 

In addition to effective classroom teaching, we offer the below programmes.

Our Learning Support Teacher (part time) assists classroom teachers and works 1:1 or in small groups with students to ensure learning needs are effectively met.

Learning Support Programmes
offered at Paparimu School

"Students with diverse learning needs benefit from the school’s inclusive culture. Appropriate intervention programmes are implemented with parent/whānau involvement."
- Current Education Review Office Report

Reading Recovery
(Reading)
Years 1 & 2

 A daily individual programme with students receiving 1 on 1 reading / language instruction for 20 weeks (or 100 hours) with the goal being the pupil reading at his/her chronological age by the end of the 20 week (or 100 hour) programme; daily Monday to Friday 30-40 minute sessions.

Rainbow Reading
(Reading/Language)
​Years 2 to 6

A school-wide programme for pupils identified, through reading results and class teachers' observations, as reading six months or more below their chronological age. Twenty minute sessions three to four times a week where students are listening, with headphones, to storytelling at their reading level, whilst following written text. ​

Early Words (1 & 2)
​(Reading - basic words)
Years 1 to 3

Early Words is a programme of one-on-one systematic five minute word-focused lessons. During the lesson, the child is taught, or retaught, a high frequency word at both word and sentence level. The emphasis is on accuracy and fluency.

Book Club
​(Reading mileage/Language)
Years 1 to 3

A reading-mileage programme held once a week with adult tutor/volunteer.
​Students reading individually for 15-30 minutes to and with adult tutor, the goal being to improve reading fluency (speed reading / tracking).

Target Students
​(Reading, Writing & Mathematics)
Years 1 to 8

Teachers identify particular students or groups of students needing a particular boost/focus in Reading, Writing and/or Mathematics. Targets can then be established ​and a specific programme put in place to accelerate the learning for these students.

ALiM - Accelerated Learning in Mathematics
Years 2 to 8

A 15 week Ministry of Education intervention programme that students are selected to participate in. ALiM aims to accelerate students' Mathematics achievement and motivation using a variety of teaching and learning approaches.
Our school is in its first year of running the ALiM programme (2017).
Previously, we have run two years of ALL (Accelerated Learning in Literacy), with a focus on Writing.

Specialist Programmes (available by school referral)

Resource Teacher of Learning and Behaviour (R.T.L.B)
Years 2 to 6
RTLB are specialist itinerant teachers who provide learning and behaviour support to a cluster of kura/schools. They work together with the school and teachers to find solutions for student learning and behaviour needs.

Resource Teacher of Literacy (R.T.Lit)
Years 2 to 6
Individualised instruction (similar to Reading Recovery Programme and SLS) three times a week 30 minute instruction in the language areas of talking, reading, comprehending, for students who require 1-on-1 instruction to boost confidence, language skills and knowledge of English for students who have not reached chronological reading age.

LLI (Language Learning Intervention)
LLI programme for thirty minutes daily with instruction that includes talking, reading, comprehending, for the four who require 1-on-1 intervention to boost confidence, language skills and understanding of English.

Speech / Language
Years 1 to 6
Individualised instruction from Ministry appointed speech therapists who visit school fortnightly. 

ORS (On-going Resource Scheme)
​Years 1 to 6
Intervention for students with special needs. Mainly funded by Ministry, topped from schools SEG (Special Education Grant). These students, funded through ORS, receive teacher aide hours per day. The school’s philosophy is that they do not become dependent on their teacher aides assistance, but instead encouraged towards independence, and socialisation. Hours received by each student depend on the degree of the disability.