Support and guidance
At Sondervick College, your development is central. The support at our school is aimed at providing a good foundation for everyone. You will have a mentor as your first point of contact. At the start of the school year you will discuss with your parents and mentor what your school year will look like: what your goals are and how you will achieve them. During the year, during parent meetings together, we will not only look at your school performance, but also at how you are doing.
Our subject teachers and mentors provide a pleasant learning environment and help you with study skills and social-emotional development. As a first-year student, for example, you follow a defensibility training and the "learning to learn" training to get off to a good start.
During GO (Growth and Development) classes in Year 1, you choose which skills sessions or learning labs you attend. The skills sessions help you with extra support in arithmetic, math, Dutch and English. In the learning labs, you discover new things and learn additional skills. In this way, you take responsibility for your own development.
Your mental health also receives attention with us. With the project STORM (Strong Teens and Resilient Minds) we support you in dealing with stress, depression and other challenges.
Together we make sure you feel safe, learn well and develop yourself.
Extra support when you need it
Sometimes you need some extra help. Then our student coordinator and internal supervisor are ready to work with your subject teachers and mentor to see what you need. The remedial educationalist or support coordinator may also be involved.
Extra support, for example by an internal supervisor or in the form of a training course, we give as much as possible in small groups. This way you can also learn a lot from each other. Examples of training courses are the fear of failure training, feeling good about yourself training and assistance with dyslexia or multilingualism.
With us, you get the help you need so that learning remains fun and achievable.
Intensive counseling
If you need intensive guidance, we deploy customized programs. This is done in collaboration with internal counselors and orthopedagogues. Sometimes students need extra support from social workers outside school. During a Multidisciplinary Consultation (MDO), parents, students and a number of external partners discuss the request for help. The school's support coordinator or remedial educationalist always participates in these consultations.
In this way, students who are not yet receiving assistance quickly come into the picture and assistance can be well coordinated.
Dyslexia support
We have a dyslexia coach in house who is is a resource for students, parents and teachers is. In classes, subject teachers guide students so they can learn the material as effectively as possible.
Dyslexia training in the bridge class
Bridge students with dyslexia receive special training. There they learn useful tips, such as memorizing words and reading smart texts.
Dyslexia Pass
Bridge students and lateral entrants with a declaration of dyslexia will initially receive a temporary dyslexia pass. After the first period, this becomes a personal, permanent pass. The student compiles this with the dyslexia coach. The pass states, for example, entitlement to time extension, but also what the student's responsibility is. More information can be found in our Dyslexia protocol.
Resources
Students with dyslexia can use digital books from Dedicon. They also receive a free home license of the speech program ClaroRead. This program must be reinstalled on the laptop each school year. A step-by-step plan and an instructional video are available in advance. The download itself is via a separate download environment.
Learn more about our support and full offerings in our school guide.
Homework help
Sondervick College cooperates with Spectrum Brabant, a professional homework institute with several locations in Brabant. Spectrum Brabant offers four forms of study support daily in fixed classrooms within our school.
- Homework room: do your homework and learn independently in a quiet environment. Free for grade 1 and 2.
- Tutoring light, regular and extra for a fee.
Learn more about all the options on the Spectrum Brabant site.