Supporting Every Child’s Wellbeing
At Del Monte, student wellbeing is a priority. Our dedicated specialist staff provide compassionate, comprehensive pastoral care and are always here to support our students’ emotional and mental wellbeing.
Unique to Santa Sabina is our Kindergarten screening process. All Kindergarten students are screened early, allowing us to tailor individual support programs to meet their distinctive needs and help them thrive.
The Specialist Services available to every child on our Primary Years Campus:
The College employs two child psychologists and one counsellor led by Lead Psychologist Tania Rugiero. Our Primary Years specialist psychologist is Anita Knezevic.
College Nurse Karen Peeters is available during school hours to assist with health concerns and emergencies.
Our Occupational Therapist Sonya Moriarty graduated from the University of Sydney with a Master’s in OT. She also has a graduate diploma in Health Management, Diploma of Health Science and Certificate of Hypnosis. With a background as a paediatric nurse Sonya has many years of experience and underpinning knowledge of children’s development and her passion is to assist children to meet their potential. Sonya has many years of experience working with children in schools, community and hospital settings as well as her own private practice.
Her experience includes working with children with handwriting and school related difficulties, ASD, developmental delay, learning difficulties, special needs, fine and gross motor coordination difficulties, developing play and social skills and sensory processing disorder.
Tania Carollo is a qualified Speech Pathologist who graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Speech Pathology from the University of Sydney.
Tania is a participant of the Self-Regulation Program with Speech Pathology Australia (CPSP), demonstrating her interest in maintaining up to date knowledge of Speech Pathology research and practice. Tania is registered and accredited with the Australian Association of Speech Pathology (SPA). Tania has over 25 years of specialised experience working with children with communication impairment.
Tania loves working with children and believes in working closely as a team with parents, preschool and class teachers to help every child achieve their full potential.
Our team of LSOs support students who have identified learning needs or those for whom English is a second language. Appropriate intervention in the classroom, including the creation of individual learning plans, is provided by our LSOs.