WHERE

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Christchurch (Māori: Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area. Christchurch became a city by Royal Charter on 31 July 1856, making it officially the oldest established city in New Zealand. Christchurch’s population is over 375,000. Renowned as the ‘Garden City of the World’, Christchurch is an ideal educational base and a thriving business centre.

WHAT

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Ferndale School and Resource Centre is a State Special School
providing for the education, therapy and special care needs of students verified under the Ongoing and Reviewable Resourcing Scheme (ORRS). Ferndale School accepts students between the ages of 5 and 21 years.

WHO

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Ferndale is unique to Christchurch because of the variety of specialist teaching environments it has to offer. The base school consists of 6 classes with an additional 11 classes based in mainstream schools and a community based unit with 2 classes.

Ferndale's base and Satellite classes are located at:

>	Ferndale Base School	6 classes	All ages
>	Bromley School	2 classes	Our younger students
>	Hammersley Park School	2 classes	Primary Aged Students
>	Beckenham School	1 class	Primary Years 1-8
>	Glenmoor School	1 class	Primary Aged Students
>	Wairakei School	1 class	Primary School
>	New Brighton Community Based	2 classes	'Work and Life' skills based unit for older students
	Northcote Unit	2 classes	Our NEW unit for teenage students and above

    
The high number of satellite classes means most children at Ferndale are able to have their primary school learning occur in a mainstream environment. This allows our students to benefit from integration opportunities with other primary aged children, yet still have access to and support from specialist teachers, therapists and teacher aides, as well as  specialist equipment and programmes.