Rosedale School provides an educational service for students aged 6 to 18 years who have an intellectual disability in the severe or profound range. Rosedale operates a partnership model of education between the Department of Education and Science and HSE funding through the Brothers of Charity Services.
Rosedale
School aims to provide a holistic education, which encompasses a happy, supportive
learning and nurturing environment. Students, parents, and all staff, together
with the Board of Management and the Brothers of Charity Services work in partnership.
Each individual student is valued, encouraged and respected for his/her uniqueness
and facilitated to reach his/her potential physically, socially, emotionally,
spiritually, and academically. We strive to enable each student to progress
towards reaching his/her fullness in adult life and in society.
Through the support of families, friends and staff in recent years fundraising activities have enabled the school to provide resources that would not have been provided through our usual funding. We have used these funds in a variety of ways to enrich the learning of our students:-
Firstly,
the children of Rosedale have never had access to a proper playground in the
same way as every other child in a mainstream school has. Through fundraising
we now have a new playground area with specially adapted equipment to meet the
needs of our students.
Also through fundraising we have been able to purchase a new kiln which will allow our students to explore and be creative in a different way.
Computers
are an invaluable resource for students with special educational needs. They
do not replace systematic traditional methods but rather are valuable complimentary
material. Through fundraising we have been able to provide touch screens for
every classroom which allows out students more meaningful access to computer
software.
Equipment for a multi-sensory room has been purchased, and our students now enjoy opportunity for many varied sensory experiences.
The
fundraising has also been used to provide a music room where the students will
be able to access a variety of musical instruments which will help them to express
their individuality in their own way.