Learning Support Team
The school Learning and Support team plays a key role in ensuring that the specific needs of students with a disability and additional learning and support needs are met.
Meet the Irrawang High School LaST Team:
Roslyn Byrne is a Student Learning Support Officer, who works with our students in small groups in the library. Roslyn uses the Lexia program to enable students to be more confident in their literacy skills. Roslyn has lived in the area for over 25 years and has formed great relationships within the community.
Alyssa Allen is a Student Learning Support Officer (SLSO) who runs our QuickSmart literacy intervention program. Alyssa develops strong trusting relationships with small groups of students to become more confident readers. Based in the library, Alyssa also supports other literacy intervention initiatives within the school.
Fiona Tweedie is a Special Education trained Learning and Support teacher. She has experience teaching students with a range of abilities, in many different learning settings. Fiona's role as part of the Learning and Support Team, includes conducting assessments, preparing learning plans, developing applications for students to access special education support settings, and supporting student learning and wellbeing.
Amber Wallstab is a Special Education trained Learning Support teacher. She has experience teaching students with a range of abilities in many different learning settings which include Support classes as well as mainstream. She has also spent time working as a Primary School teacher and as such, has a wide range of experience with literacy and numeracy knowledge to then impart upon the students that she works with.
Amber's role as part of the Learning and Support Team includes conducting assessments, preparing learning plans, and supporting student learning and wellbeing by assisting with class assessments, test preparation and learning interventions.
Mr Bryan is a Learning Assistance Dog who works with our Learning Support and Wellbeing teams. He is a Labrador who comes to us from the Guide Dogs NSW therapy dogs program.
We monitor each student's progress and provide additional learning support if this is required.
Our school uses learning programs and specialised staff where needed and we work in partnership with parents and carers to assist students who have special learning needs.
Our school is committed to working with Aboriginal parents and community members in developing personalised plans for our Aboriginal students.