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PRIVATE SPECIAL AND TUTORIAL SCHOOL
New Hope
Private Special & Tutorial SchoolThe New Hope Private Special School was
founded in 1992.
• First Private Special School in Cyprus approved by the
Ministry of Education and Culture under the Education
Act 47/1979.
• First school outside UK to join the Council for the
Registration of Schools Teaching Dyslexia (CreSTeD) in
1995, as a category A School.
• Corporate member of the British Dyslexia Association
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New Hope
Private Special & Tutorial School
It provides Greek and English education to
children aged 4 – 21 with special needs such as
mild and moderate mental retardation, learning
difficulties, (dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, ADD,
ADHD), behaviour disorders, speech impairment.
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New Hope
Private Special & Tutorial School
The school’s philosophy is to provide appropriate education according to each child’s individual needs, in the least restrictive environment. Each child in the school has the opportunity to strive for an existence as close to normal as possible, by making available to him/her patterns and conditions of everyday life which are as close as possible to norms and patterns of the mainstream society.
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New Hope
Private Special & Tutorial School
The New Hope Private Tutorial School is
approved by the Ministry of Education and Culture
and is renowned in Cyprus and the Middle East as
a leading force in the field of learning disabilities.
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New Hope
Private Special & Tutorial School
New Hope’s Tutorial School provides highly teamed diagnostic prescriptive teaching, in order to meet each student’s needs. Students can receive remediation in all academic areas such as reading, spelling, composition, maths, geography, history, science and computer literacy, as well as assistance in learning study skills and models of organisation so that they can effectively complete academic work. The Tutorial School caters for students of ages 4 – 21+.
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New Hope
Summer School
The New Hope Summer School runs every year
from the last Monday of June to the last Friday of
July. During the Summer School emphasis is given
to fun activities such as basketball, volleyball,
football, table tennis, art and swimming among
others, but at the same time is tailor-made to suit
each child's individual educational needs.
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New Hope
Summer School
Educational programs include preparation for the next academic year, preparation for the September re-sit exams, Dyslexia teaching programs, English classes, etc.
Children and their parents can choose from a variety of programs of any length of time between one week and the full duration of the Summer School which is five weeks.
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New Hope
Summer School
In 2011 a Residential Summer School will also run
in conjunction with the normal Summer School.
This will focus on children and/or adults requiring
short 1 or 2 week courses for English Language
and/or dyslexia.
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Staff
The staffing complement consists of professional
teachers, psychologists, speech pathologist,
physiotherapist and administrative personnel, all
approved by the Ministry of Education and
Culture. The professional personnel are trained to
teach the types of students in class. A variety of
teaching styles, to accommodate the different
needs of students, is offered.
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Assessments
Assessments are carried out to identify the nature and the degree of the specific disability in order to offer appropriately tailored education to the needs of each child. Students are assessed in all areas related to disability by a multi-disciplinary team. The total team evaluation is oriented to planning appropriate instruction rather than in pinning a diagnostic label to the child.
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Programs
New Hope school provides academic enrichment
and skill development for students interested in
addressing specific academic and social skill
needs or maintaining progress achieved over the
preceding academic year.
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Academics
The New Hope Academic Program is a
challenging and stimulating learning environment
which provides students with the opportunity to
improve their academic skills. With an average
class size of five students and individual attention
from teachers, students achieve success in areas
they never thought possible. The 5:1 student-to-
teacher ratio ensures that attention is focused
and productivity is maximised.
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Academics
Teachers use multi-sensory strategies to teach
students with different learning styles. Classes
such as English Language, Creative Writing,
Arithmetic, Study Skills, Forward to Literacy,
Recreational Program, enable students to
develop and enhance their skills.
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Writing composition
Students are offered a wide variety of
opportunities to improve their oral and written
communication skills. Weekly activities for
students involve vocabulary development,
spelling, grammar, capitalisation and punctuation,
as needed. Peer and teacher conferencing is a
part of writing process.
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Study skills course
This course focuses on building confidence in
the classroom, by encouraging students to utilise
organisation, communication, patience and
creativity to elevate academic achievement. A
combination of the following topics will facilitate
the coursework: organisational skills, writing
skills, spelling, reading proficiency, class
participation, test preparation and test taking,
word problems, research, reports (speech), note
taking, and studying outside the class.
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Reading and Literature
Students will learn strategies for decoding, as
well as listening and reading comprehension. The
reading curriculum at New Hope is a balanced
approach to teaching students with learning
differences. In conjunction with the teaching of
literature, students are exposed to many
language experiences and activities while still
being directly instructed in learning to decode and
encode unfamiliar words.
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Reading and Literature
All students during the course are exposed to the
process writers go through to arrive at polished
work through the use of writing, including topic
sentences with supporting details, introductions
and concluding paragraphs, sentence structure
and research and organisation of information and
data.
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English Language Course
• The English Language program offers students
training for Beginners, Lower Intermediate and
Upper Intermediate levels. Daily five-hour classes
are devoted to:
• Reading
• Spelling
• Handwriting skills
• Written expression
• Comprehension
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English Language Course
New Hope is an approved examination centre
(Centre Code CYPR1004) for EDI JETSET ESOL
International Qualifications
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Computers
• Computers are important tool for the students
who have spelling and expressive writing
difficulties. New Hope recognises this and
provides not only a computer lab-room but all
classrooms are equipped with a PC. All
computers are connected to the internet and all
have available a diverse range of software in
dealing with specific areas of learning at all
levels.
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Computers
• Students use the computers for a variety of
reasons during their selected course including:
• To learn keyboard skills (taught in the language tutorials and
writing classes)
• To use appropriate speech-to-text technology to assist them
with reading and expressive writing
• To practise maths facts
• To encourage students to use the internet for research
projects in different classes
• For other problem solving endeavours
• To compose, edit, revise a creative story
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LiFLexiA©
As a part of the English language course, students
are offered sessions on the LiFlexiA© methodology
to improve their spelling, reading and writing skills.
This pioneer multi-sensory method attempts to
match teaching to learning style and increases the
individual’s performance skills.
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LiFLexiA©
LiFLexia© - Light Flow Lexical Approach: A
pioneer approach for the development of writing,
reading and spelling skills of dyslexic students.
Developed in-house by Dr Eleni Rossides and
designed to:
- Remedy disorders of writing, reading and spelling
- meet the needs of pupils of varying levels of ability
- apply to individuals or small groups
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LiFLexiA©
LiFLexia© was created due to the growing
awareness that a number of pupils have not been
making the expected progress in reading and
writing skills despite their obvious intellectual
capacity. Some of these pupils have come to be
known as “language disabled” or “dyslexics”.
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LiFLexiA©
LiFLexia© is based on a structured phonetic
linguistic approach and it can be used with children
from 6 to 18+ years of age. It is designed to enable
specialist teachers to improve the cognitive
weaknesses of children with Specific Learning
Difficulties in the following areas:
- Visual memory
- Auditory Memory
- Phonological awareness
- Auditory discrimination
- Automized naming
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LiFLexiA©
It is an important tool for students with reading
and spelling difficulties. Through the use of
LiFLexiA© in their daily program, students
improve their skills along with their eye-hand
coordination, visual and short term memory,
auditory discrimination and phonological
awareness.
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LiFLexiA©
LiFLexiA© in its current form is based on a
hardware-software combination, that uses
commercially available light flow message boards
controlled by a specially developed software and
adapted for use either in a class situation or for
teaching children with specific needs on a one-to-
one basis.
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LiFLexiA©
LiFLexiA© is currently undergoing development for
the production of a PC version for use by teachers
in class, as well as for individual use by students at
home.
The LiFLexiA© software application is expected to
be ready in the first quarter of 2011.
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