At Tangara School, we are committed to creating and inspiring life–long learners by providing a caring and vibrant learning environment that promotes and embraces students’ strengths.
It is our goal to ensure that every student is active and engaged, consistently moving forward in every aspect of their learning. Tangara School is located in the beautiful Southern Highlands and enjoys warm, and caring partnerships with many local businesses.
Our school provides meaningful and authentic individualised educational programs for students from the age of 4 to 18 years with an intellectual disability in the moderate to severe range, with often a range of additional disabilities.
Tangara School currently has five classes, with a total enrolment of 32 students. Each student participates in an individualised program that is designed to promote a strong sense of self, allow students to develop independence, self-efficacy and emotional regulation and, most importantly fell as though they are a part of the wider community.
Our warm and genuine relationships with our wider school community, particularly the very active and supportive members of the Parent and Citizens Association (P&C), our families, and the local therapists who work with our students, all contribute to the culture at Tangara School being one of warmth, equality, respect, and dignity.
As with any school, our priorities include literacy, mathematics, student wellbeing programs, in addition to independent living skills, assistive and supportive technology and communication programming.
Tangara School students are a delight to work with. They are often cheeky and irreverent, always warm and kind, and whilst they have challenges not every child has, they have strengths not needed by their more able-bodied counterparts, and, most importantly, they are a joy to teach.