Footprints Preparatory School (Special Needs), Johannesburg

MISSION STATEMENT:
To create a centre of learning where students can realise their full potential by providing a comprehensive, individually orientated education of the highest standard.
To provide a sound foundation for meeting the tasks and challenges of future learning.
To create an environment of opportunity where the child learns general knowledge, the right attitudes and ethical and moral principles.
To encourage and teach each child social skills, and life skills in a warm and loving environment.
To know at all times that the child comes first.
To acknowledge that each child is an individual and to allow each child to work at their own pace.
To create a sound and safe environment where each child is extended and growth is encouraged academically, socially and emotionally.
To rehabilitate scholastic and emotional problems, and deal with these confidently.
To encourage the desire to conquer the new challenges facing them in the future with enthusiasm.
To enable our children to function in society independently.
Currently we offer:
• Maximum 10 children per class, • Visual, auditory and kinaesthetic teaching techniques, • Audiblox Therapy, • Water Therapy (In Summer Months), • Reading Laboratory, • Interactive white board teaching.

• Makaton Sign Language, • PECS, • Braille, • Life Skills – cooking, computers, vegetable gardening, sewing etc.

• Support Therapists on premises: Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy and Physiotherapy.