Focus points for partnerships

Focus points for partnerships

The Kingfisher Community Special School > < School Lyndensteyn

For Kingfisher School:
• Multi-disciplinary partnership working with health agencies
• School-supported placements in mainstream schools
• Curriculum development

For School Lyndensteyn:
• Quality management system – Excellence Model
• Transition and change implementation re inclusion agenda
• Curriculum development

The Kingfisher Community Special School > < Scoala Speciala Transilvania

For Kingfisher School:
• Sharing curriculum expertise to redefine underlying values and principles
• Sharing specialist skills e.g. sign-supported communication system, lifting and handling, managing challenging behavior, • Picture Exchange Communication Systems (PECS)
• Re-use of resources not maintained in UK context

For Scoala Speciala Transilvania:
• Curriculum development for complex special needs pupils, pastoral care systems including child protection
• Team-building, scheduling and individual planning for pupils
• Augmented communication strategies including Augmentative and Alternative Communication systems (AAC), PECS and signing system
• Parent-school relations and co-working

Scoala Speciala Transilvania > < School Lyndensteyn

For Scoala Speciala Transilvania:
• Curriculum Development for new therapies: occupational therapy, music, drama
• Augmented communication strategies including Information and Communication Techniques (ICT)
• Individual planning for therapy programmes
• Processes for management of terminally ill children

For School Lyndensteyn:
• Sharing curriculum expertise to redefine underlying values and principles
• Sharing specialist skills e.g. occupational therapy, drama, music therapy and ICT
• Re-use of resources not maintained in Dutch context

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