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Overview
Community Access
Futures for young adults
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OverviewOff campus programs and activities as well as social programs in local primary schools are offered to enhance regular classroom teaching programs. These programs include but are not limited to:
- Riding for the Disabled
- Work experience
- Shopping
- Gardening
- Bowling
- Community access and camps
- Sports Program
The school considers these programs to be so important to the social development and safety of the students, that it is prepared to devote a large part of the school budget to the purchase and maintenance of our school bus fleet.
Community AccessAll students at Croydon SDS have the opportunity to participate in regular community access days as well as walking in the local neighbourhood.
The basic aims of these programs cover a variety of areas which include safety, confidence in accessing community facilities, shopping, social behaviour, traffic sense etc.
Students are exposed to situations where they can learn skills such as:
- Shopping and money skills
- Appropriate behaviour in public
- Use of public toilets, play equipment etc.
- Appropriate library behaviour
- Not approaching, touching or talking to strangers
- Safety near water
- Safety in traffic/road sense
- Not touching letter boxes, parked cars, plant in gardens, goods in shops etc.
- Footpath etiquette
- Staying with the group
Futures for young adultsAll of the senior programs begin to prepare students for their adult placements. Currently the Futures For Young Adults program offers 18+ students an appropriate place when they graduate from Croydon SDS. Staff work with Department of Human Services personnel and parents to provide information about students and to enable parents to make an informed choice of placement.
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