Baldwin Opportunity School is a special school in Bangalore that provides education for children with mental retardation. The school was established in the year 1964. The school is an extension of the Baldwin Girls’ High School and a Unit of Baldwin Methodist Education Society. The school caters to children between 4 and 16 years who are intellectually challenged in the mild and moderate category.
Baldwin Opportunity School focuses on enabling children to become independent, responsible and to be able to express themselves.
Learning Programs Offered at Baldwin Opportunity School, Bangalore
The school offers a learning course that involves the following skills and activities for the students:
- Academic skills
- Self-help skills
- Pre-vocational skills
- Speech therapy
- Activities to develop fine and gross motor skills
- Activity classes for art, craft, music, dance and clay modelling
- Yoga classes
- Sports and swimming
Highlights
- The school has classes divided into Pre-Primary, Primary, Intermediate, Senior I, Senior II, Learning Lab, Home Maker’s Class and Pre-Vocational Unit
- The school conducts a pre-vocational training programme at the post-secondary level for boys and a home maker course for girls
- The school provides opportunity for the students who graduate from the Opportunity School to be trained as teacher aide to assist the teacher in classroom activities
- The school organizes screening of movies for the entertainment of the students
Contact Information
Baldwin Opportunity School
3, Rhenius Street, Richmond Town,
Richmond Road,
Bangalore – 560025
Phone: +91 80 2221 4514
Email: baldwinoppschool@hotmail.com
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