Durants School Vision
Durants promotes a holistic environment for young people with autism and their families. Durants offers a person-centred curriculum that enables all students supported by their families to achieve and forge their own path into society and adulthood.
- Preparing for independent living
- Actively promoting good health
- Teaching skills for employment
- Helping to develop friendships, relationships and participate in the community.
Values and Principles
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Independent Living
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- For all students to do as much for themselves as possible
- To provide routines, structures and communication strategies that support students to be independent
- To support all students to be safe
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Friendships, Relationships and Community
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- For all students to have regular access to the community and to learn to be able to be safe
- Students to be supported to develop friendships and relationships that suit them as an individual
- To support students to understand social rules and behaviour
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Good Health
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- All students to have access to appropriate and necessary health care
- Having a healthy diet and regular exercise
- Access to services that promote emotional well-being and good mental health
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Employment
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- To develop individual skills that will be useful in the workplace
- To provide sheltered work placements in school that meet the needs of learners with autism
- To develop and foster relationships with suitable external employers
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