Inspire
Holroyd School is committed to equitable access to quality education for all students, regardless of their background or circumstances. Our processes identify the strengths and needs of individual students, crucial to ensuring every student participates fully and stays engaged. Strong school and community partnerships ensure the student is known, valued and cared. School staff participate in an ongoing program of high impact professional learning.
At Holroyd School, support for students with high potential and disability includes:
- acknowledging both high potential and disability: we recognise both the advanced abilities and the disability, providing a unique combination of support and development.
- focusing on strengths: staff, parents and carers identify student’s strengths and interests and student's high-potential areas such as creativity are nourished, while addressing needs associated with disability.
- individual and collective adjustments: this includes providing additional support, modified resources, and differentiated instruction to meet the specific learning and wellbeing needs of students.
- explicit teaching: differentiated to extend the student's strengths and interests, with options like challenging projects, flexible pacing, varied ways of demonstrating understanding and opportunities for generalisation and development.
- emotional and social support: ensuring the learning environment is safe and supportive and addresses social-emotional needs.
In our classroom
- Differentiated tasks that adjust pace, complexity, content and practice
- Assessment to identify areas of strength and needs, to monitor growth and adapt teaching and learning
- Explicit teaching of foundational and functional skills
- Tasks that promote choice and independence including cross-curricular projects.
- Differentiated movement tasks and skill refinement
- Individual SMARTER core learning goals
- Opportunities to take on lead roles in physical demonstrations.
- Supportive learning environments that enable exploration and self-expression.
- Opportunities for leadership within the classroom
- Safe learning environments that encourage confidence and perseverance.
Across our school
- Student leaders
- STEM and coding
- School music activities
- Drama and school concert
- Visual Arts and showcase
- Sport
- Movement groups
- Wellbeing programs
- Participation in whole-school inclusion and wellbeing initiatives.
Across NSW
- The Premier’s Sporting Challenge (PSC) promotes whole-school participation in physical activity with leadership pathways and professional learning.
- The Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC) promotes a love of reading for leisure and pleasure and enables students to experience quality literature.
The Premier's Reading Challenge
The Premier’s Sporting Challenge
Music and Concert
Student opportunities and activities
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Learning
Find out about our approach to learning and supporting students to progress.