Rotorua One Day School - for Gifted Learners
Open NOW for Enrolments for 2025
Enrolment application: Download HERE
What is a “One Day School”?
- It is a programme happening during school time but outside school itself, on a regular basis, for one full day every week.
- It is designed to provide for learning needs which cannot readily be fully met in the regular classroom.
- It generally works in liaison with schools, as a cooperative venture. Sometimes a homeschooling family will be enrolled.
Why do gifted learners need any additional or different help?
Gifted children inherently learn differently from others of their age.
- They tend to be more curious, more observant and more persistent when they are interested.
- They are often highly imaginative. They often have a quirky sense of humour. They tend to have a strong sense of justice.
- They don't always achieve highly and they may not fit in well with students who are less questioning.
- School can be a very lonely place for them. Yet they are the children who may one day go “beyond the known” leading the way to new knowledge and understanding.
How can One Day School help them?
One Day School is designed to provide a high and satisfying level of challenge – learning adventures of the mind and the imagination, exploring multiple fields of knowledge and invention.
It is also designed to meet the different and sometimes difficult emotional and social needs of the gifted child. Such a child perceives and reacts to daily experiences, to learning at school, to other children, in ways that are often much more intense than the reactions of others of their age. One Day School provides an immensely important opportunity for the gifted child to meet with others who can truly share their world and their unique perceptions.What is the history behind this programme?
How are children identified for ODS?
Through a carefully designed assessment process.
Detailed information is collected from whanau and school sources, from the child’s own original work, and from an interactive day at the ODS.
Who can apply?
School, whanau, home schoolers.
Is there a cost?
Whanau: $50 per term.
Schools: $0 funded by Launchpad NZ Trust
Enrolment application: Download HERE
Queries? director@onedayschool.nz
For more background information and advice, to go: www.aotearoagifted.nz
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