"He Ara ki Whakapakiri"
"A pathway to personal development"
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“Ko te ahurei o te tamaiti arahia o tatou mahi”
“Let the uniqueness of the child guide your work”

​The Central Plateau Enrichment Academy t/as ADDI is registered as a charity with New Zealand Charitable Services (CC53930).
Our Academy will operate exclusively for charitable purposes in advancement of education for all learners. The ADDI Enrichment Academy (t/a ADDI)  is intended to have three horizontal classes of 10 -12 children in years 1 - 13 offering small classes individualised attention, in a technology-rich environment designed to support all learners. We are inclusive of learners with specific learning requirements including autism, dyslexia and ADHD.

Classes will offer specialised academic instruction and support for learners in years 1 - 13 with low learner-educator ratio and highly qualified educators.  This arrangement will enable us to attend to the individual needs of your child, regularly monitoring and adjusting to maximise opportunities for academic attainment and success that mainstream educational settings may not.
There has been great success in the USA and UK with schools successfully providing specialised education for learners and it is important that this be available for children here.

ADDI will be built on prestige and be set apart from other primary schools, first and foremost for its ability to effectively teach all children with specialised learning requirements.
 
Our Point of Difference:
Low learner ratio and qualified educators having undergone specialised training (theory and practical) in teaching learners with specific learning requirements.  Smaller class sizes allowing more time for individualised learning.
 
Description:
ADDI Enrichment Academy will be a Private School with learners from Year 1 to Year 13.  All learners will have an Individual Education Plan around their learning needs.  All students will be on individualised child centred programmes.  All learning will be based on the New Zealand Curriculum.
 
Definition of the Type of School:
ADDI Enrichment Academy will be a Private Composite School of no more than 50 students.  This will include primary, intermediate, secondary and special school learners catering for the learning needs of vulnerable and disengaged learners.
 
Name & Type of Managing/Controlling Body
ADDI Enrichment Academy is a Trust Company and operates exclusively for charitable purposes. (CC53930).
 
The Directors of the Company are:

• Gaye Vartiainen,
•  Miria Stephens,
• Michelle Barnett; and
• Jeff Vartiainen. 

 
 


Our Curriculum

​Our National Curriculum has five broad Key Competencies that underpin all curriculum area and social development dynamics for all learners (both child and adult). These are:

- Relating to Others
- Managing Self
- Participating and Contributing
- Thinking
- Using Language Symbols and Text

The national curriculum contains the five curriculum areas (Science, Technology, Social Sciences, The Arts and Health and Physical Education) is used to provide the context (the interest and engagement) to learn to read, write and do maths (English and Maths curriculum areas).

To be literate:
This means being able to listen to and speak with others and then beyond that, being able to read and write.
 
To be mathematical:
Mathematics is a basic necessity required to live in everyday life and is essential for employment. 
 
All Learners will:
Have a full understanding of where they are at academically, where they are going and how they are going to get there.

• Follow the NZ Curriculum
• Have an IEP (Individual Personalised Educational Plan)
• All learning will be individualised – unless another learner is learning the same strategy, skill or understanding
• Each learner will have a negotiated weekly contract which is informed by assessment data and learners’ prior knowledge and interests.

 
A description of programmes, courses and resources and the level at which they will be offered and used

• Individual Personalised Learning Plan for each student
• Contracts
• Thematic Learning
• Supported by Te Kura Correspondence School where necessary
• We will be offering Years 1 to Years 13
• Feuerstein will be used for ALL students
• NZ Curriculum

 
Details of the day

• 8.30 am – 2.30 pm 
• Contracts and Individual Learning Plans followed
• Breaks negotiated but approximately:
  • 10.30 am – morning tea
  • 12.30pm lunch.

 
A description of teaching approaches to be used and the way in which they programme will be monitored
Teaching Method:

• The right to the teaching of thinking and inclusion;
• The requirements by governments for the teaching of thinking and inclusion;
• The importance of shaping the learning environment for the learning and thinking of all children;
• The importance of learning how to learn, in preparation for lifelong learning;
• The importance of developing thinking in order to cope with change positively in lifelong learning;
• The importance of developing general problem-solving skills which can be applied to both academic and real-life problem solving;
• The importance of acquiring the underpinning cognitive skills needed for academic learning;
• The importance of thinking analytically and critically in order to evaluate, including evaluation of best courses of action;
• The importance of focus on the learning process, not only on the learning outcome;
• The teaching of thinking is supported by our knowledge that thinking can be enhanced, and we should have an optimistic view of this for all learners;
• There should be an interest in the unique potential of every individual, and individual differences in learning and thinking;
• There should be a shared construction of meanings, and empathy for a shared contribution to the social world;
• The role of teaching thinking in raising learners’ self-esteem and positive sense of identity;
• The value of the teaching of thinking in teachers’ professional development.

 
A description of the methods of assessment to be used and the way in which students’ progress will be monitored and reported to parents
All programmes are monitored in accordance with NZ National Curriculum, all assessment and reporting will be as is normal in a mainstream school.
Central Plateau Enrichment Academy known as ADDI Enrichment Academy (ADDI)
 
ADDI is a school in Taupo where all students from Year 1 to 13 have the opportunity to learn based on the Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment (FIE) Programme, within regular school hours.
This school has a very well established philosophy.
The school has developed a unique programme for Years 1 to 13. This programme is run totally within the school academic week.  Students are not required to give up time before or after school or lunchtimes except for required home practice.
Every morning up to one hour individual and group lessons are held using the Feuerstein Method. This unique programme has been very successful in terms of developing independent, responsible, passionate young learners.
Being at this school will be very positive for them both academically and socially.
The school strongly believes that students benefit from leaning and participating in cognitive behavioural training and this is reflected in improved academic results.
 
ADDI provide:
Feuerstein

• A specialised Feuerstein Instrumental Basic Enrichment programme for all students. Students from Year 1 to 13 will learn:

Level 1
Organisation of Dots - Basic 
Orientation in Space - Basic             
From unit to Group
Identifying Emotions
From Empathy to Action
Compare and Discover the Absurd
Tri-Channel Attentional learning

Level 2
Know and Identify
Think and Learn to Prevent Violence
Learning to Ask Questions for Reading Comprehension
Compare and Discover the Absurd – Level 2

• A specialised Feuerstein Instrumental Standard Enrichment programme for all students. Students from Year 1 to 13 will learn:

 
Organisation of Dots
 
Orientation in Space 

Analytic Perception