The school will also provide support to the ordinary school for the maintenance of about eighty pupils with special educational needs
This week, the school’s classrooms have once again been filled with students and teachers at the start of the new school year. A team of more than 92 professionals will accompany 344 pupils with special educational needs throughout the academic year. The teaching activity has started this Wednesday for all students in compulsory studies while the Specific Training Itineraries (IFE) and the Training and Insertion Programme (PFI), which are post-compulsory services, will begin on the 12th.
Also during this academic year, a team of professionals from the school, who form the Special Education Service and Resource Provider Centre (CEEPSIR) accredited by the Department of Education, will continue to develop programmes and support services for the schooling of pupils with special educational needs in around forty schools and institutes in the counties of Bages, Moianès and Solsonès.
For this academic year, the Department has assigned us an increase in the number of professionals in the CEEPSIR team, and now there will be 3 people who will be fully dedicated to the project. These professionals will also be able to count on the support of the multidisciplinary team of the AMPANS school, which includes psychologists, physiotherapists, special education teachers, psychopedagogues and speech therapists. All of them will contribute to the support of teachers from the regular school for the maintenance in the classrooms of about eighty pupils with special educational needs. The pilot plan will also continue with Escola Serra i Hunter in Manresa, in which the two schools will undergo a process of transformation and accompaniment towards fully inclusive educational centres. The project has the backing and collaboration of the Education Inspection Service and the psycho-pedagogical counselling team.
Another of the specialised services that the Jeroni de Moragas School has consolidated for this new academic year is the Comprehensive Support Classroom (AIS) for secondary school pupils attending mainstream schools. The AIS, aimed at students with a diagnosis of mental illness, is a personalised educational and therapeutic resource that provides, on a temporary and transitory basis, comprehensive and intensive care. The ultimate goal is to achieve sufficient balance and personal wellbeing to be able to return to regular schooling. This service, which was first developed as a temporary solution to the COVID pandemic situation, is now consolidated as a definitive project with remarkable results. During this academic year it will cover 12 pupils, 8 of whom will have access to this resource for the first time, which will help them overcome the mental health situation they are facing in order to be able to return to school.
In addition to the consolidation of CEEPSIR and AIS, there is the novelty of the home schooling model for 7 pupils at the centre. The Department of Education has facilitated this type of schooling, assigning teachers to develop and monitor this model of education for children with long and complex illnesses. Home schooling allows pupils in compulsory education who are living with a prolonged illness that prevents them from attending classes normally, to receive stable and guaranteed educational attention in the family home or in the hospital centre.