Learning Area
| QCIA
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Communication Technologies (Literacy)
| Phonics: Following the Phonics
for Pupils with Special Educational Needs program, we are individualising to
each student, focusing on segmenting, blending and phoneme manipulation. Shared Reading: Communication and
comprehension skills will be developed through interactive, engaging lessons. Writing: Creating texts through
a range of digital and low-tech methods. |
Personal Living Dimensions (Numeracy)
| Students will be working towards increasing
their skills in the areas needed to either support their post school life, or
their progress in their VET courses. This includes place value, money and time.
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Community, Citizenship and the environment
| Through the projects listed below, students will
learn about active citizenship, and participate in and contribute to their
local and wider communities.
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Positive Behaviour for Learning
| ‘PBL’ is our school’s positive behaviour
program. Students are learning all of the school expectations and exactly what
that means for them through explicit instruction and lessons each week.
Students will develop their resilience and social-emotional learning focusing
on skills in relation to our Core values: Care, Courage and
Cooperation.
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Vocational Transition Activities (VTA)
| In vocational and
transition activities students will investigate products and services that
support life beyond school. They will
access a range of community-based resources that will support their engagement
with society and their transition to life beyond school.
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Leisure and Recreation (Health & Physical Education)
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Fundamental movement
and sports skills, activities students enjoy to support students’ fitness in
their post school life.
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Project Based Learning
| Coffee Shop: Students will learn to apply and develop
communication skills, through running a coffee shop for members of the school
community.
Sustainability: Students will actively contribute to the
management of the garden while learning about sustainability and the wider
environment.
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| VET (All Certificate 1 courses
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Animal Studies
| Students will develop skills in animal care
and management starting with safety procedures and moving onto feeding,
watering, hygiene, and basic care.
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Work Skills
| Investigate the introductory skills and
knowledge required in the workforce and apply them at their work experience
workplace.
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Agriculture (formally known as Agrifoods)
| Hands on experience on site, developing skills
and knowledge of agriculture, horticulture and land management.
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