Rivendell School

Rivendell is a state-wide interdisciplinary facility comprising Rivendell School for Specific Purposes and Rivendell Child, Adolescent and Family Services. It is a joint Health/Department of Education and Training facility located in the Strathfield Network at Concord West. The School is staffed by specialist teachers and support staff, and the Unit by psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and psychiatric nurses. Clinical and Educational staff work collaboratively on education programs. Rivendell School caters for a maximum of 77 students with emotional, behavioural and mental health issues. Students attend school daily, and may be admitted to the Unit as either day or residential patients. The school operates five programs: Lawson Program (Mood disorders/School refusal), Sulman Program (Tutorial), Yaralla Program (Psychosis), Paterson Program (Emotional Disorder) and Walker Unit (Acute Psychiatric Ward). In addition, an Outreach Learning Centre operates at the Gna Ka Lun Acute Unit in Campbelltown Hospital. The goal is to equip the student to cope better at their home school following discharge or to refer the student to another appropriate program.

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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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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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