CHILDCARE
The Children, Family and Community course offered to our middle and upper school students is a diverse course offering both theoretical and practical elements. In Year 10 the Childcare and Development students have studied topics such as family structures, child development, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, conception, birth and childhood health. A highlight of the year was when students created story books and a language comprehension activity for a pre-school child and went on two excursions to Hammond Park Primary Catholic School to trial their activity. It was a valuable learning experience for our students to interact with young children and keep them engaged while learning.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT In Year 11 students have studied a wide variety of topics while learning life skills in Children, Family and Community. Students analysed local family support services and created links to their local community through exploring current family issues. After studying parent responsibilities and child needs, they got to experience the real life baby programme by taking home an electronic baby for 24hrs.
The baby simulation enabled students to prepare for the challenges of parenthood. A guest speaker from WANSLEA visited our Year 11 class and informed us of the work her organisation does with foster children. Students showed true compassion and generosity of spirit when completing a care package for the foster children at WANSLEA.
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Finally, our Year 12 class prepared themselves for their first externally set test and achieved outstanding results. We then focused on ways to teach cultural diversity in a pre-primary setting. This was put into action with the students visiting Mater Christi Catholic Primary School and conducting their own culturally inclusive lessons. The students worked extremely well with the children with many of the Mater Christi teachers impressed with their efforts. Our final major assessment of the year focused on Advocacy. Students chose their own topics to advocate for including homelessness, child protective services, domestic violence services and endangered wildlife. Students raised money, created gift bags, care packages and collected household items for all of these worthwhile causes. It was a wonderful achievement. Mrs Deborah Barraclough Director of Home Economics
