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The School Curriculum
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The school curriculum is balanced and broad, containing all the subjects advocated in traditional schools but also incorporating specific remedial approaches to suit the individual child. Indeed, from the moment the child enters th gates in the morning, until the time he or she leaves, there is active and ongoing engagement with our curriculum. Schooling at Bellavista reaches beyond textbooks, workbooks and the classroom. The staff to learner ratio is 1 to 6 which enables the learners to receive the individual attention they require. The approach to learning across all aspects of a school day is fundamentally the development of cognitive thinking skills, rather than strictly content based education, providing opportunities for developing self motivation and discipline, shared problem solving and efficient study habits.
The main objective of the curriculum is to improve the learners' reading, spelling and numeracy ages through the use of a holistic approach which involves all of the senses namely, visual, auditory and kinaesthetic. The curriculum embraces modern co-operative teaching methods and the use of technological and media resources. Thus design and technology, computers, music, art and drama are considered important components of the programme.
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Speech Therapy: RAVE-O
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RAVE-O is a systematic, research based, innovative, approach to Fluency and Comprehension (Retrieval, Automaticity, Vocabulary, Engagement and Orthography). It is a program about words- their multiple meanings, sounds, letters, visual patterns and uses. Its purpose is to teach the young reading brain how to build up and connect different sources of visual, cognitive, and linguistic information and rapidly retrieve them during reading.
The therapist works alongside the teacher in the classroom allowing for a more integrated approach. This daily approach to language learning is fun and interactive, turning children into “WORD DETECTIVES” where they are encouraged to discover multiple meanings, connections between words, and word patterns. This programme is also reinforced through individual speech therapy sessions and is part of the Bella Vista philosophy and “language”.
“Come along with me, children let’s pick up and go to this WORDALISTIC place…
a town called RAVE-O” |
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