"Ofarim" - School for Autistic Children

Hello friends and supporters

"Ofarim" school for students on the autistic spectrum in Haifa is a school that combines a variety of cultures. During this period we have celebrated the many recent holidays and learned about the cultures of the students and teachers in our school.

We celebrated the "Sigd" which is a holiday of Ethiopian culture. It marks the connection between the people and God. In school we mentioned this in a show that explained the signs of the Ethiopian culture and ate cultural dishes.

Later, we marked the end of the year with the celebration of the three holidays, each culture and its holiday. We celebrated Chanukah, Christmas, and the Eid al-Adha. The three-festival  was held at the school, and each culture had its representative at the ceremony.

This month we started a cooperation with high school in Haifa,  "reali" school. 9^th grade students came to our school and did some activities with our students, including cooperative learning and walking trips. In addition, "Intel" company-workers came to our school and promoted an explore-based learning, throughout thinking games.

The lessons in our school includes learning in a different learning environments and teaching methods. We recieved new donated iPads who serves us in the classroom. It's helping us in the learning which divided into several ways. Exploratory learning, naturally learning, interactive learning that combines technology, and learning through games. Varied learning helps us to promote each student in the most appropriate way.

Looking into 2018, our goal is to enable having suffcient iPads for each student in the classroom and buikd our technological infrastructure to enable it. We are also looking to enrich our physical activitie rooms with more sttructures and equipment.

Thank you very much for your continuing support

Links:

• School Website