Endeavour Education Support Centre (ESC) consists of four state-of-the-art teaching areas located alongside the Primary classrooms to ensure that students are working with their mainstream peers. All the ESC classrooms are air-conditioned and there is a purpose built therapy/bathroom area to support students who require health and hygiene programs.  Endeavour Schools adopt an integrated approach to school management with a single reception area for both schools, a shared school officer and school registrar, who receive all visitors and manage administrative tasks as one inclusive school.  We run a range of integrated and inclusive programs across the ESC and Primary School, through Art, Music, Sport and Learning area lessons.   

>Each of our teaching areas is dedicated to a specific age range of children, namely:

• *NEW* Early Intervention - catering for the needs of students with disabilities such as Autism and Global Developmental Delay in the Kindy and Pre-Primary years
• Junior Primary-  providing for the needs of young students progressing from the Pre-Primary environment and in the early phases of developmental progress.
• Middle Primary -  attending to the needs of those students in their  transitional years from Junior Primary to Senior Primary providing educators with opportunities to identify individual needs more closely.
• Senior Primary - Transition programs for students preparing to attend High School in Year 8 are in operation and have proven very successful, enabling students to experience their chosen High School environment by regularly visting the schools, participating in educational programs and learning about the expectations of the High School community.

All four classrooms are located alongside the Primary School’s classrooms to ensure that students with learning difficulties are accommodated alongside their mainstream peers. We run a range of integrated and inclusive programs across the ESC and Primary School and regularly share classrooms and resources to accommodate the needs of students across both schools.

One of the critical factors in the success of any inclusion program is the collaborative nature of the relationship that exists between the ESC and the Primary School. At Endeavour Schools we had the positive opportunity of building an inclusive ethos to the schools from the outset when the schools were built in 2000. Parents and staff from both schools were involved in all aspects of planning for the new schools from the very beginning. This afforded many opportunities to develop strong relationships and shared educational understanding with a commitment to the process of inclusion. This has lead to, amongst other things, a shared School Council, shared teaching staff and resources and joint plans and policies. The Administration team of Endeavour Schools work as one unit with two Principals and two Deputies sharing the responsibility for the management of the schools.

In addition to this inclusive ethos, Endeavour ESC provides specific and specialist learning programs for students with learning difficulties in small group settings. All students have Individual Education Plans (IEP’s) which are developed in collaboration with parents, teachers and a range of professionals such as educational psychologists, occupational and speech therapists.

Mainstream students who are experiencing difficulties with their learning, social skills or have significant health concerns are also supported by the specialist provision of staff in the ESC. With teacher and parental consensus mainstream students can access the specialist educational programs the ESC offers that are designed specifically to meet the special educational needs of primary students.

Learning opportunities are provided in all eight learning areas of the Curriculum Framework and Spanish is taught by a specialist LOTE teacher. A weekly hydrotherapy programme and gymnastics programme is currently in place for  small groups of our students who require additional gross motor development.

We are also well resourced in Information and Communication Learning Technologies with access to computer labs and a bank of laptops and specialist teaching programme.

Endeavour ESC is currently staffed by 7 teachers and 15 Level 3 Education Assistants and has 36 students enrolled. All staff members are specifically trained and highly qualified in their area of specialisation. Our Art specialist, Mrs Beverley O’Shaughnessy is an Endeavour ESC teacher who is a winning 2007 nominee for the “Premier’s Teacher of the Year Award” and our LOTE/Physical Education Specialist, Mr Colin Pestell was awarded the “Australasian Martial Arts Trainer of the Year 2003” and has been recognised as the winner of the 2006 Education Support Teacher Award for the Primary Years given by WAESPAA (Western Australian Education Support Principals & Administrators Association).

If you require any further information about Endeavour Education Support Centre please do not hesitate to contact the ESC Principal:
Jayne Gorbould
Jayne.Gorbould@det.wa.edu.au
Telephone: 08 9524 5000

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