The following are the programs available at our school:
- Lawson
- Yaralla
- Paterson
- Sulman
- Walker
- Gna Ka Lun
Academic Programs
The Learning Centre
The Learning Centre at Rivendell offers a structures, supportive, and academically rigorous environment that provides students with the skills, confidene, and readiness needed to successfully achieve their schooling goals.
By bridging the gap between therapeutic support and mainstream school setting, the Leaning centre provides students with the opportnity to engage in a more conventional academic experience whilst continuing to receive tailored learning and wellbeing support.
Our school philosophy, 'The Rivendell Way', syntehsises the evidence-based frameworks of Cognitive Load Theory, AVID pedagogy, and the Neurosequential Model in Education (NME). This philosophy is intricately embedded in out school's explicit teaching practices, which in turn, fosters an environment that enhances literacy and numeracy outcomes, boosts attedance, and prepars students for post Rivendell pathways.
Teachers deliver Rivendell-developed Stage 4 and 5 curriculum across all key learning areas, including English, Mathematics, Science, Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE), History, and Geography (HSIE). The curriculum is aligned with New South EWales Education Standards Authority (NESA) and in accordance with these standards, also develop and deliver compreghensive assessment tasks each term. Formal reports are provided to parents and carers at the end of each semester, which communicate insight to student progress and development.
Religion and Ethics
There are no special religious education and special education in ethics approved providers available at Rivendell School.
Senior Students
Senior students attend Gna Ka Lun, Lawson, Sulman, Walker, and Yaralla Programs.
Rivendell School continues to develop numerous programs to support students with their academic studies and transition.
Senior students are supported academically through collegially established strategies outlined in their Individual Plans. Students have the option to undertake Preliminary and Higher School Certificate subjects through a Pathways mode of study. This may involve academic study onsite at Rivendell, combined with offsite study at another educational setting.
Each senior student has individual personal goals and plans for their educational or working life after school. The flexibility of the senior programs at Rivendell reflects this and caters for individual students by supporting transitions to work, TAFE, university, further study or other post-school options.
