Community Connects

  

During this year your VCAL course gives you the opportunity to connect with community through negotiated activities. Self-motivation and interest are needed to work on activities in this area. You can negotiate to use time in classes to make any of these activities a priority piece. Productive use of class time for documented planning, development and reflection towards your activity needs to be consistently demonstrated for you to do this.  

This page will provide suggestions for activities that you can choose to complete as pieces to showcase in your folio of work. Also, speak up if you have your own idea that you want to run with. If there is any competition that you notice in the media and you would like to have a go at, the Community Connect component of this course gives you the avenue to put time towards it.

   

The communities we are a part of are an important part of who we are. The ShepProud competition gives you a chance to brag about one of your home communities and maybe even win $4000! If you have an idea and a device you have all the basics to be able to create a ShepProud submission. In literacy classes you can brainstorm, storyboard, script, film and produce the piece. (If filming takes place during school time and outside of school grounds you will need to organise the letters and indemnities to allow you to do this).

If timing does not quite fit for this year, you can use your work to gain Outcomes to pass this course for now, and submit it to the formal competition if it runs again next year. Even if the competition was not to run next year it is still win win for all the learning and experience you will get out of such an activity and because it counts towards completion of this course.

http://www.thecommunityfund.com.au/shepproud-2017

Run a House Tribe point earner activity at lunch or in an approved double session. You might set up a challenge afternoon for Year 7, 8 or 9 classes as approved by teachers of those classes. This could be a fantastic Friday afternoon finisher for the week as a BART reward for a class that has been putting in top learning and behaviour efforts.

Love your sports? Love your books? Love them both but one just trumps the other? 

Organising a sport program or reading program for a primary school is a project you could choose to undertake for Literacy or Personal Development. There are many ways you could go about putting together either of these projects. The most important thing is to plan out your idea and have everything in place, ready to roll, before you contact and commit to working with a primary school. 

Suggestions for getting set up to run a sport program:

 

• Decide on the sport/s you want to showcase to the primary school students.

• Write up activity outlines/coaching plans for the amount of sessions you plan to run at the primary school. Organise how you will access any equipment you will need. You will have these prepared prior to contacting the primary school to evidence you are organised and serious about delivering a professional program.

• Pre-prepare the paperwork you will need to complete if a primary school chooses to take up your offer. You will need approval for this to be considered a work experience activity, notes to inform your parents/guardians of what you are doing and signed indemnity forms returned prior to you running the programs.

• Contact the primary school/s you hope to run some sport sessions with. Tell them your intentions and ask for an e-mail address you can send your activity session plans through to for them to see. Let them know you are hopeful they have some dates and times where you could come to their school to run the activity, you will be able to organise your permissions and indemnity to go once you lock in a date.

Suggestions for getting set up to run a reading program:

• Consider what your reading material will be. You can select a book or set of books, create your own stories or use online reading materials.

• Know the texts you will share with the young students well. Read them aloud yourself a few times before reading them to the students.

• Write up activity outlines for the amount of sessions you plan to run at the primary school. How long will it take you deliver the reading and any other activities you decide to incorporate. Organise how you will access any equipment you will need. You will have these prepared prior to contacting the primary school to evidence you are organised and serious about delivering a professional program.

• Pre-prepare the paperwork you will need to complete if a primary school chooses to take up your offer. You will need approval for this to be considered a work experience activity, notes to inform your parents/guardians of what you are doing and signed indemnity forms returned prior to you running the programs.

• Contact the primary school/s you hope to run a reading  program for. Tell them your intentions and ask for an e-mail address you can send your activity session plans through to for them to see. Let them know you are hopeful they have some dates and times where you could come to their school to run the activity, you will be able to organise your permissions and indemnity to go once you lock in a date.

• Book Week takes place in August each year, if you run a reading program you might like to coincide it with this week and partake in dress up fun.

• Some of you might like to organise to be buddied with a junior/s for our school reading times.