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Bellavista School is an independent preparatory school for children with learning potential, who are experiencing specific or generalised learning difficulties which prevent them from achieving success in a mainstream school environment.

We work as a dedicated, professional staff, each child receiving appropriate help from teachers, therapists and the school principal to ensure their success. We believe a holistic multidisciplinary approach is beneficial for each child to reach his or her potential.
The school curriculum is balanced and broad, containing all the subjects advocated in traditional schools but incorporating occupational, speech and language, remedial and psychological therapies to suit the individual child.

We pay special attention to each child's physical, intellectual, social, emotional and academic profile, nurturing their strengths and guiding them to use compensatory strategies to overcome areas of weakness.

Our ultimate aim is to reintroduce the child to mainstream education. We aim to ensure that pupils are self-confident, well-adjusted, independent and mature members of the community.
 
The school emblem is the original doorknocker from the school's first premises opened in 1967.
The lion symbolises strength and the knocker the receptiveness of children seeking education.
 
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Rachel Harrison is a Grade 5 pupil at Bellavista. She took part in the annual CANSA awareness campaign. This is her story:

CANSA NIGHT RELAY RACE.
I ran through the night from 7 at night to 7 in the morning for CANSA.

My Grampa is a survivor of cancer but my Aunt Sheila died because of cancer. I decorated a paper bag for her and we put a candle in it. These bags went all round the relay track and lit it up.

We set up camp. ‘Random Ramblers’ was our teams name and we dressed in the Soccer shirts.

The race began with the survivor people walking the 1st lap. This is my Grampa and me together walking the first lap. I ran 7 laps then I lost count.

Running for CANSA is all about raising enough money to help find a cure for cancer.
Altogether R519 000 was raised for CANSA.