Casuarina School is one of a number of specialist schools and learning centres across New South Wales (NSW) that provide intensive educational and behavioural support for students who have exhausted all other school-based and regional behaviour support provisions, and for whom a more intense level of support is required.
Schools, in collaboration with parents/carers, apply for students to access this level of support through a regional placement process. The access request is considered by a regional panel consisting of regional student support staff, principals and head teachers of special school settings and professional association representatives from schools within the region.
The core of the school's programs focus on literacy, numeracy and social communication and interaction skills, optimal student outcomes are achieved in partnership with key stakeholders.
Generally, students present with diverse, complex and dynamic needs, therefore to be successful at our core business, our policies, practices and programs are continuously reviewed to ensure students' needs are being addressed and students are being provided with optimal support and opportunity to improve and achieve.