Fowler Road School

Education Directory introduces Fowler Road School in Merrylands, for all your education and learning needs.

Fowler Road Special School is located at Merrylands and has 56 students who come from a number of Sydney districts. The school provides programs for students from Kindergarten to Year 12 who experience emotional/behavioural and mental health difficulties. The main program has 6 classes (42 students in total)for Kinder to year 6 students with mental health disorders. Most of these students attend Fowler Road on a part-time basis and also attend their home school for some of the time. The attendance pattern in this program usually involves students attending Fowler Road School until lunch time, returning to there local public school during the afternoon session. This program is intended as a short term intervention that supports students in a regular school close to their homes (home schools). The program focuses on working with home schools to facilitate students' attendance there with minimal difficulties. Length of stay for students in this program is usually twelve to eighteen months. Apart from this main program, Fowler Road School also offers 2 additional programs for students in years 7 to 12. These programs have a maximum enrolment of 7 students in each program, taking the schools overall enrolment to 56 students. The first of these high school programs is for students with significant internalising anxiety disorders who have found it hard to attend their regular schools. This program is a fulltime program providing students with access to individualise support to obtained their ROSA in year 10 and their HSC in year 12. The program also provides students with support into post school options, including employment and further education. The second high school program is a tutorial program for students who have disengaged in education due to their mental health disorders and are not attending any school. The program aims to assist these student to re-engage in schooling with an aim to see them into a fulltime supported placement in the future. These students are enrolled in distance education and students are provided with support to complete their distance education packages and manage their work schedules. Support is also provided to these students to access post school options, including employment and/or other educational options outside of school. At Fowler Road, we believe that everyone has the right to learn, in a positive way, about themselves and the world so that they can achieve success. We work towards this by providing: an environment where staff, students, and visitors feel safe, secure and accepted; a climate where positive relationships are developed through mutual respect; experiences that are enjoyable leading to positive learning outcomes. We work to assist students to return to a more regular setting close to their homes.