Our Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO) works with all the HODs, teachers and parents to make sure the learners have effective support strategies in place throughout their time at Elsen.

We have programmes in various phases for the learners/ classes that need i.e. Conversational Afrikaans Groups, Occupational Therapy groups, Emotional support classroom groups, if needed, an in-house therapy team to assist teachers with learner’s emotional and remedial needs.

We work with various therapy practices, who come to Elsen during the school day to hold their sessions with our learners. In this way, most of our learners’ therapies are done by the end of the school day; allowing learners to take part in after school sports and complete their homework at a reasonable time and still allow children to have free time.

We also implement concessions for learners during their assessment times, as well as in the classrooms, to maximise their academic development, equalise opportunities and enable them to give a true reflection of their knowledge and skills. The concessions can be, but are not limited to, scribes, readers, small venues, and extra time and many others.

As we have small classes, our teachers are able to have a very effective remedial way of teaching. We teach the CAPS curriculum but in such a way that learners are able to work at their own pace and get the maximum output from what they have learnt.

As it is said, “It takes a village to raise a child” and here at Elsen this is a philosophy we live by every day.