About

Alma School's Vision & Mission

The GDE Vision: Ensuring every learner does well at school and leaves our institutions with the knowledge, skills and qualifications that will give them the best chance of success in adult life. The GDE Mission: To ensure quality learning and teaching take place in the classroom every day. ALMA Vision 2024 Make sure every learner at Alma School flourishes and is enriched to maximum potential to exit Alma School with capabilities such as self-respect, self-worth, and skills. This will provide them with the highest quality of chances of achieving their full potential in life. ALMA Mission 2024 To facilitate maximum cognitive, socio-emotional and skills development for each individual learner, as prescribed in the Differentiated-Curriculum and assessment policy statement (DCAPS), by utilizing well-trained educators, therapists, and assistants. The support of parents and the community should be enlisted, and appropriate physical resources procured and managed to send well-prepared learners into society.

Alma School's Learners and Disabilities

Alma School needs you to make a difference in the world of a child with special needs. These children of all races, between the ages of five and eighteen, need specialised education. This educational environment offers a highly specialised approach that is designed to fit the profile of every individual learner. Our learners are: • Severe intellectually disabled coupled with epilepsy, syndromes, cerebral palsy and hard of hearing. Highly trained and dedicated staff support the learners from Alma School daily with: • Physiotherapy • Occupational therapy • Sensory/perceptual stimulation • Feeding and life skills support • Adapted specialised education • Vocational skills To support these services the following apparatus and material are needed: • Wheelchairs • Walking and standing frames • Crutches • Special compatible chairs and tables • Educational toys • Handwork equipment • Garden and farming equipment • Tea Garden facilities – furbishing of kitchen, bathrooms etc. • Custom-made eating utensils • Teaching materials • Material and aids for occupational therapy

Support Services

When working with disabled learners it becomes evident that specialised education and therapy go hand in hand in ensuring each individual learner’s optimal development. Our learners need intensive specialised physiotherapy, occupational therapy, teaching and medical care. Extra help is needed in the classroom for feeding, toilet training, nappy changing and to help learners in and out of their wheelchairs. The salaries for extra staff members are a huge financial outlay. Alma School manages a feeding scheme that provides a balanced diet to a number of less fortunate learners. This ensures optimal learning and well nutrition children. We also provide much needed food parcels to go home during school terms as well as holidays.

Transport

1. Many of the learners make use of the school’s transport system. Four minibuses follow routes covering a big area of the Tshwane Metropolitan area. Other learners use private taxis coming from as far as Winterveld, Mabopane, Garankuwa, Soshanguve and Mamelodi. Our learners cannot make use of public transport because of their disabilities. The school has to run this system itself. It involves many financial implications. Many of our parents do not have the financial means to contribute to school fees, in such cases we assist these learners and help with sponsorship, reductions or subsidies. 2. Our Learners come from the greater Tshwane area and are transported to and from our school. To sustain this much needed service, we need: • Customised buses • Fuel for transportation • Maintenance of the transport infrastructure • Salaries for full time bus drivers.

Alma School's History

Alma School’s founding dates back to 1963, when parents of disabled children formed a care group, giving one another a bit of free time to accomplish other things. In 1974 the Alma Care Centre, situated in a house in Soutpansberg Road, opened its doors in Pretoria to mainly take care of disabled children. During the 80’s Alma Care Centre relocated to bigger premises in Waverley, Pretoria. By then Alma Care Centre resorted under National Education of South Africa. After the first democratic election in 1994, Alma School was registered and resorted under the Gauteng Department of Education providing special education for cerebral palsied, intellectually and physically disabled children of all races. On 13 June 2000 Alma School was registered as a Non-profit Organisation.

About

Alma School's Vision &

Mission

The GDE Vision: Ensuring every learner does well at school and leaves our institutions with the knowledge, skills and qualifications that will give them the best chance of success in adult life. The GDE Mission: To ensure quality learning and teaching take place in the classroom every day. ALMA Vision 2024 Make sure every learner at Alma School flourishes and is enriched to maximum potential to exit Alma School with capabilities such as self-respect, self-worth, and skills. This will provide them with the highest quality of chances of achieving their full potential in life. ALMA Mission 2024 To facilitate maximum cognitive, socio- emotional and skills development for each individual learner, as prescribed in the Differentiated-Curriculum and assessment policy statement (DCAPS), by utilizing well- trained educators, therapists, and assistants. The support of parents and the community should be enlisted, and appropriate physical resources procured and managed to send well-prepared learners into society.

Alma School's Learners and

Disabilities

Alma School needs you to make a difference in the world of a child with special needs. These children of all races, between the ages of five and eighteen, need specialised education. This educational environment offers a highly specialised approach that is designed to fit the profile of every individual learner. Our learners are: • Severe intellectually disabled coupled with epilepsy, syndromes, cerebral palsy and hard of hearing. Highly trained and dedicated staff support the learners from Alma School daily with: • Physiotherapy • Occupational therapy • Sensory/perceptual stimulation • Feeding and life skills support • Adapted specialised education • Vocational skills To support these services the following apparatus and material are needed: • Wheelchairs • Walking and standing frames • Crutches • Special compatible chairs and tables • Educational toys • Handwork equipment • Garden and farming equipment • Tea Garden facilities – furbishing of kitchen, bathrooms etc. • Custom-made eating utensils • Teaching materials • Material and aids for occupational therapy

Support Services

When working with disabled learners it becomes evident that specialised education and therapy go hand in hand in ensuring each individual learner’s optimal development. Our learners need intensive specialised physiotherapy, occupational therapy, teaching and medical care. Extra help is needed in the classroom for feeding, toilet training, nappy changing and to help learners in and out of their wheelchairs. The salaries for extra staff members are a huge financial outlay. Alma School manages a feeding scheme that provides a balanced diet to a number of less fortunate learners. This ensures optimal learning and well nutrition children. We also provide much needed food parcels to go home during school terms as well as holidays.

Transport

1. Many of the learners make use of the school’s transport system. Four minibuses follow routes covering a big area of the Tshwane Metropolitan area. Other learners use private taxis coming from as far as Winterveld, Mabopane, Garankuwa, Soshanguve and Mamelodi. Our learners cannot make use of public transport because of their disabilities. The school has to run this system itself. It involves many financial implications. Many of our parents do not have the financial means to contribute to school fees, in such cases we assist these learners and help with sponsorship, reductions or subsidies. 2. Our Learners come from the greater Tshwane area and are transported to and from our school. To sustain this much needed service, we need: • Customised buses • Fuel for transportation • Maintenance of the transport infrastructure • Salaries for full time bus drivers.