Sunnydene news

Cultural celebrations - this group told an African Ghost Story!

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Cultural Celebration - a variety of costumes, dances and songs from across the world.

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We celebrate our cultures with music, drumming and singing.

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Celebrating Matariki and Other Cultures

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We all helped to make the meal - soup and dessert. Managing Self is the main Key Competency we were involving.

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Topic Day for 'Winter' - a snow man helped set the scene!

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A visit to Snow Planet helped us to understand concepts of cold and snow.

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Sunnydene Mothers' Night 6 May 2010

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Sunnydene Mothers' Night 6 may 2010

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Sunnydene Mothers Night 6 May 2010

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Students and principal singing "Haere Mai" at our Powhiri.

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Waiata "Te Aroha" by the class at Balmoral

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Our kaumatua

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A combined art work of Summer insects

2010-03-17T13:55:00.001+13:00

Our topic of study this term is "Summer," taken from the Science Curriculum. Some of the Art work represented the insects we see in summer.

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Our students are supported by staff to participate in Para Olympics. One of our students recently won first place in a running event.

Spring Ball

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Sunnydene Spring Ball was held on Friday 18 September.

Welcome to Sunnydene

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Sunnydene is a school for children with intellectual disabilities. The base school is on Smallfield Ave, Mt Roskill.

There are seven satellite units at:

May Road Primary (Double Unit)

Dominion Road Primary (Double Unit)
Balmoral Intermediate (Double Unit)

Onehunga High

The satellite units are staffed by Sunnydene School, the students in them are enrolled in Sunnydene School and they are supported in every way by the management and staff at Sunnydene School, but they are situated in a mainstream school.

Sunnydene has an enrolment of 60 to 70 students. With small classes we are able to cater for the individual needs of the students, many of whom require one-on-one attention.
Four classes are located at the base school on Smallfield Avenue in Mt Roskill. This includes the house, which is really the section behind the base school. A group of our senior students use the House as their classroom. The other classrooms are in satellite units at May Road School, Balmoral School, Dominion Road School and Onehunga High School.

Mainstreaming occurs within the satellite school system where the students generally mix with children of their age during playtimes and assemblies. In addition to this, some students attend specific classes within the host schools along with a teacher aide. The satellite classes attend assemblies and other "whole school" events at their host schools. The satellite units at May Road , Dominion Road and Balmoral intermediate have custom-made and designed, fenced playgrounds. These give a safe area for those students who require it.