Halinda School

Towards Independence and a Valued Life Style.' Halinda School for Specific Purposes caters for students with intellectual and physical disabilities. All students have secondary disabilities such as hearing or visual impairment, conduct disorder, diagnosed mental health conditions or autism. Our mission at Halinda School is to provide an environment that empowers and skills students to reach their full potential. We believe that all students can learn and we are dedicated to equipping and supporting students to make a successful transition into a valued life-style within their local community. The school achieves its mission through the implementation of individual education programs developed collaboratively with teachers, therapists and parents. The school priority programs are listening and communicating and the explicit teaching of social skills. Curriculum is developed and implemented through a Connected Outcomes approach that integrates the key learning areas from the NSW Board of Studies syllabi. The school has strong integration partnerships with local primary and high schools. As students reach their final years at school there is an emphasis on integration into the community.

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Demountables

Cooler Classrooms

This school has been assessed as not meeting the scope of current Cooler Classroom funding requirements.

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Maintenance

To ensure the safety, reliability and longevity of our schools, every school across NSW receives maintenance. The Department undertakes preventative and routine maintenance every year, and repairs as needed. The Department also reviews the planned maintenance program for each school every year and reviews those items that are predicted to require work to help prolong the life of the school buildings and facilities.

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Schools Renewal

The $240 million Schools Renewal Program aims to accelerate projects that will improve the amenity of schools and kick start local jobs for local communities. This is a co-funded program, with each school contributing up to 50 per cent of the project cost.

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Program

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Completed

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Demountables

Demountables have been part of the NSW education system for many decades and will continue to be used across the state. Demountable classrooms are modern, air-conditioned rooms that provide students and teaching staff with excellent quality facilities. The learning spaces have the same range of technology that is available in permanent spaces. We review school accommodation needs each year, looking at changing enrolment patterns and other factors to prepare for the upcoming school year. This helps to identify schools that need new demountables and schools where they can removed. Most demountable movement takes place between October and February and we report our annual demountable statistics each April. Additional demountable installations can occur outside this window to support capital works and maintenance projects in schools or emergency responses to natural disasters.

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We recognise the Ongoing Custodians of the lands and waterways where we work and live. We pay respect to Elders past and present as ongoing teachers of knowledge, songlines and stories. We strive to ensure every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander learner in NSW achieves their potential through education.

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