Student Support
Our student support team consists of an Executive teacher, Learning support specialist, Mental Health and Wellbeing Teacher and School Psychologist. The team meets weekly and leads the management and support of student academic, social and behavioural needs. Classroom teachers can make referrals to the student support team for specific student concerns.
At Hawker School every year level has an additional teacher during morning sessions and at other key times throughout the day to support a differentiated program. The additional teachers take small groups of students who require support either intervention or extension. They plan with classroom teachers and deliver lessons targeted to the student’s point of need.
Students with disability
Every child or young person is welcome to learn at their local ACT public school. Our school is committed to removing barriers so all students can access learning. Quality teaching practice helps all students, and our teachers make adjustments for students who need them to ensure they successfully access and participate in learning and school activities.
Adjustments for students may include:
- providing extra visual cues and information
- breaking down tasks or presenting them in a different way
- providing more practice of learning tasks or repetition
- checking for understanding
- changes to the environment
- providing other ways for a student to communicate
- strategies to meet a student’s sensory needs
- access to quiet spaces to assist with regulation.
These adjustments might be made in a smaller group learning situation and at times the class teacher may be assisted by another educator.
Read more about how students with disability are supported in ACT public schools.