Shelanti Private School in Parklands was established to accommodate the following learners:
- Learners with an average to above average intellectual ability.
- Learners who cannot cope in mainstream education due to large classes and need an individual approach to learning.
- Learners who need more than what a traditional educational system can provide e.g. thinking skills, leadership skills and advanced, technological teaching methods.
- Learners who thrive in a smaller environment.
- Learners without behavioural problems.
- Learners whose parents are actively and enthusiastically involved in their child’s education.
- Learners who have been assessed by an educational psychologist.
- Learners who need emotional support.
- Learners with different styles of learning.
- Learners whose home language is English.
- Gifted learners who need enrichment opportunities.
- Learners who need remediation in certain areas.
- Learners who need alternative methods of assessment e.g. visual clues, adapted methods of assessment, readers, scribes, amanuensis.
- Learners who under achieve despite good intellectual abilities.
- Learners who have been diagnosed with specific learning difficulties.
- High functioning Aspergers learners.