The staff at Sunnybank State School believes that:

"Intervention is an ongoing and integral part of teaching and occurs every time a teacher makes an adjustment to their teaching program to enhance a child’s learning.”

(Literacy Intervention Guidelines)

Sunnybank State School has a team approach to intervention. Students may be supported by one or several teacher aides or specialists. The Support Teacher Learning Difficulties (STLD) is part of that team.
Some of the programs that Sunnybank School runs to support students’ learning are:

• SAR ‘Support a Reader’ (years 1,2,3)
• In class literacy and numeracy support
• Rainbow Readers (years 4,5,6)
• Communication (year 1)
• Oral language (year2)
• Individual spelling programs
• ELF Program (Early Learning Foundation)
• Writing groups

Children with learning difficulties are identified and with parental permission are referred to the Student Welfare Committee. Children referred for Learning Support are assessed by the STLD and a Support Plan is devised specifically for that student in collaboration with parent/s and class teachers. This is known as Appraisement, which is a process carried out in all Queensland Government Schools.