Alternative Learning Community Centre
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Support, for home schooled children with additional needs such as Autism, Anxiety and other neurodevelopmental conditions. During school time hours, the children at Fraggle farm will have access to experienced staff on hand to help with any work set by parents, developmentally appropriate work sheets to supplement their home education, alongside activities available on site such as cooking, art, gardening, animal care, games and socialising. All this while set in a calm supportive environment amongst nature.
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After school Support for children with neuro developmental conditions.
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On site facilities include a sensory room, library, gaming room, retro Arcade, kitchen, lounge, activity room, sensory play park, multiple undercover outdoor areas and our Fraggle therapy animals. An intimate setting supporting your child's developmental journey that nurtures such strengths as kindness, patience and individuality.
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Parents are welcome to stay with their child, however by doing so on a regular basis, will be required to sign up to our volunteer program and submit to a working with children check.
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If you are interested in our program, please get in touch and we will be happy to show you around the premises and answer any questions you may have.
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"The most interesting people you'll find are ones that don't fit into your average cardboard box. They'll make what they need. They'll make their own boxes."
- Dr Temple Grandin.
Look deep into nature,
and then you will understand everything better.
-Albert Einstein.
"The world needs all kinds of minds."
-Temple Grandin
Let us talk for a moment about one of our Fraggle Farm children, as she is a classic example of who this program would suit. She was diagnosed with level 2 ASD at age 7. She had attended mainstream schooling up until year 1, when the class size, educational and social demands were ever increasing. She was becoming more and more overwhelmed, anxious with feelings of not fitting in. Struggling with the social complexities and over stimulation of a crowded classroom, we began to homeschool. During this time she received her diagnosis, but unlike our son her situation is not best suited to benefit from the educational support facilities on offer.
Our daughter was in no mans land. She suited an educational environment that had small groups, teaching support and social interaction with like minded children. A place she felt understood and included. Where her social growth could be guided, her emotional needs met and her overall well being enhanced.
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From this Fraggle Farm was formed.