In addition to high quality classroom programmes Anula also offers a number of intervention programmes aiumed at increasing opportunities and achievements rates for students.

ITAS: Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme   
The ITAS Tuition program provides literacy and/or numeracy tuition to support improved literacy and numeracy skills for Indigenous students in Northern Territory Government schools. The In Class Tuition program provides tutorial assistance to Indigenous students from Year 1 to Year 8 who are underachieving in English literacy and/or numeracy and are likely to benefit from assistance.  
Eg.

•   Indigenous students who did not meet one or more Year 3, 5 and 7 reading, writing or numeracy benchmarks in the previous year’s MAP benchmark tests; and/or
• Year 1 to Year 8 Indigenous students who are at risk of not achieving the relevant Northern Territory Curriculum Framework (NTCF) learning outcomes for their year level.

  This tutoring can be provided either as one on one or group tuition which may include non-indigenous students.

IESIP: Indigenous Education Strategic Initiatives Program

This funding is provided to improve educational outcomes for Indigenous students only.   The aim is close the gap in educational outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students.

Support must address the following 3 priority outcome areas:

• Increased enrolment, attendance and retention
• Improved English literacy outcomes
• Improved numeracy outcomes

LNSLN: Literacy Numeracy & Special Learning Needs

The Literacy, Numeracy and Special Learning Needs Programme aims to improve the literacy, numeracy and other learning outcomes of students who are educationally disadvantaged and who require additional assistance. This funding is provided to help schools improve the learning outcomes of educationally disadvantaged students, including students with disabilities, particularly in literacy and numeracy, by contributing funding for additional teaching and learning assistance.Funding is targeted at the most educationally disadvantaged school students, including special school students, from K (or equivalent) to Year 12 who may face barriers to effective participation at school and who:

• are not achieving or are at risk of not achieving a national benchmark standard of literacy and/or numeracy or other appropriate standard of achievement; and/or

• require additional assistance to reach an appropriate standard of achievement.

Educational disadvantage may be associated with a range of factors such as a disability or learning difficulty, a language background other than English, Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander background, low socio-economic background or geographical isolation.

The QuickSmart Numeracy Intervention Program
The Aim of instruction in the QuickSmart program is to improve accuracy and speed of recall for basic knowledge and facts that students already understand but cannot yet automatically recall. The Rationale for this instructional intervention is that students are better able to successfully engage with higher order tasks such as problem solving and comprehension, when the limited capacity of their working memory is available to solve these tasks, rather than using the working memory to re-discover known basic number facts or decoding previously known words.
The Goal of QuickSmart instruction is to improve speed of recall and accuracy in basic  numeracy areas. Assessment procedures highlight specific knowledge domains in which progress towards higher order functioning is blocked by obstacles related to poor recall or lack of automaticity. QuickSmart instructional interventions are then designed to address these identified obstacles by supporting the students to automatize their existing knowledge and understandings.
The Objective of each intervention lesson is to ensure that students have sufficient understanding in a ‘blocked’ domain and then to increase speed of recall and accuracy in a particular sub-set of that domain.
Instructional Methods used in the QuickSmart program focus on a variety of practice and recall strategies. Initially the instructor will informally assess each student’s knowledge and understanding. At times it will be necessary to spend some instructional time developing knowledge and understanding to the point where the student can begin to automatize their knowledge. Once understanding is established each lesson will involve a number of guided practice activities featuring overt self talk, discussion of memory and retrieval strategies, games and worksheet activities followed by timed independent practise activities.  

The QuickSmart Literacy Intervention Program

QuickSmart Literacy is an intervention program designed by the University of New England to improve basic literacy skills of upper primary students. It focuses on ‘explicit strategy & content instruction’ and the ‘systematic use of timed activities’.  After success with the QuickSmart Numeracy program, Anula School was selected in 2007, along with two other Darwin schools, to pilot this new project in the Northern Territory.

The major goals of the program are to help students to become quicker, more accurate and smarter with their reading strategies. According to its creators, "Poor readers have more difficulty constructing meaning from text because their limited working memory capacity is allocated almost entirely to decoding.” With QuickSmart Literacy, students work in pairs to ‘automatize’ their knowledge. Word recognition; vocabulary knowledge; reading fluency; and comprehension strategies are explicitly taught by an instructor throughout the 30 minute lessons.

Assessment occurs at the end of each session using QuickSmart’s CAAS (Computer-based Academic Assessment System) which measures improvements in accuracy & recall times, and provides instant feedback. Results are recorded onto a graph and goals for the next lesson are discussed.