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COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS AND INTEGRATED CURRICULUM

DANIELLE SANTANGELO AND LISA VARGAS BUCKLEY PARK COLLEGE, ESSENDON

What this workshop is all about:

• Introduce to you a curriculum developed for Intermediate and Senior

Personal Development Skills, along with Senior Literacy

• Our program has flourished over 1 year. We want to share it with you.
• We aren’t a perfect program yet...but we are working toward it!

Learning Focus

By the end of this workshop, you should:

• Be starting to think about meaningful ways you can connect your class
• r VCAL program with community organisations
• Have some ideas as to how to integrate certain units and projects with

different strands of VCAL

• Be familiar with the Intermediate/Senior PDS outcomes

OUR VISION

• Promote civic engagement among students by fostering sustainable

and meaningful community connections

• Re engaging students with their school - making meaningful for them
• Integrate subjects where possible (goal: full integration)
• Collaborate

WARM UP ACTIVITY - CARDS

On your table there are a selection of cards. Pick two cards that symbolize or help you describe the VCAL subject you teach.

OUTCOMES

PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

Term Intermediate PDS Senior PDS Senior Literacy 1 VCAL Promo Video Leadership Market Day Big Day Out Teach a Skill to the Year 7’s Big Day Out Teach a Skill Interview a Tradie Instructional Presentations 2 School Improvement Project (year-long) Disability (DSR + Scope) Senior Citizen Project Health & Wellbeing Week Senior Citizen Project Health & Wellbeing Week 3 Balloon Football (Scope) Aberfeldie PS Mentoring Safe Driving Domestic Violence/ Violence against women Homelessness Project Aberfeldie PS Mentoring Homelessness Project 4 Amazing Race (Moonee Valley Police + Primary Schools) Homelessness Project Safe Driving Homelessness Project Safe Driving Get a Job

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: INTERMEDIATE PDS

Yearlong: School Improvement Project Cost: $0 - $1000 (Unit 1 Learning Outcomes 1-5)

• School re-engagement
• Student choice
• Final projects: benches,

classroom shelf, downball courts, kiosk for school cafe business

• Terms 1&2: Planning
• Terms 3&4: Building

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: INTERMEDIATE PDS

Yearlong: School Improvement Project (continued)

• Become friends with the

Wood Tech teacher

• Formal letter-writing and

meeting with principal

• Mock-ups, sketches,

shopping

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: INTERMEDIATE PDS

Yearlong: School Improvement Project (continued)

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: INTERMEDIATE PDS

Term 1: Market Day Cost: Materials (<$50 per group) (Unit 1 Learning Outcomes 1-5)

• Partnered with VCE Business

Market Day (but you could do stand-alone event)

• Stalls, decoration, music,

advertising

• Charity
• Integrated project: PDS & WRS

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: INTERMEDIATE PDS

Term 2: Intro to Disability (S.I.P. runs concurrently Cost: DSR $300; Scope $1140 Unit 2 Outcome 1

• Scope - See the Person

(school visits + Scope Highpoint

• Disability Sport & Rec -

Wheelchair Basketball

• Paralympics, workplace

advocacy

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: INTERMEDIATE PDS

Term 3: Balloon Football League Cost: Inclusive Unit 2 Outcomes 1-5

• AFL for severe

disabilities

• Funded by Scope
• Volunteer at

practice each week

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: INTERMEDIATE PDS

Term 3: Balloon Football League

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: INTERMEDIATE PDS

Term 3: Balloon Football League Plan and run the BFL Grand Final

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: INTERMEDIATE PDS

Term 4: The Amazing Race Unit 2 Outcomes 2-5

• Partnership with Moonee Valley

Police

• Transition program for local primary

schools

• Familiarity with public transport
• Design a ‘race’ around town with

passports

TIME OUT

On your table there is a pathway and sticky notes.

• Use the yellow sticky note to write down what your most positive

experience of teaching VCAL has been...

• Use the blue sticky note to write down what you are excited about...
• Use the pink sticky note to write down what you are concerned about...

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR

Yearlong: MURAL

• Uniform shop was drab

and ugly

• WRS/art teacher led senior

students through the process of designing a mural

• Students were divided into

groups and given responsibility for one wall

• The following images are

the result of their hard work….

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR

Yearlong: MURAL The VCAL students wanted to paint a rainbow to symbolize our school’s acceptance and celebration

• f people of all genders and

sexual identities.

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR

Yearlong: MURAL On the other side of the uniform shop, the students painted our school’s values

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR

Yearlong: MURAL Students eventually ‘signed off' by writing their names and their graduation year on the uniform shop, so future students can put a name to their contribution

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR PDS & LITERACY SKILLS (INTEGRATED)

Term 1: VCAL BIG DAY OUT PDS LEARNING OUTCOMES: ALL LITERACY: ORACY FOR KNOWLEDGE

WE DO THIS IN THE FIRST COUPLE OF WEEKS OF TERM 1 IN PREPARATION FOR ORGANISING FUTURE EVENTS, THE SENIOR VCAL CLASS PLAN THE DAY FOR THE WHOLE OF VCAL IT IS ABOUT CREATING CONNECTIONS AMONG THE COHORT, AS WELL AS CELEBRATING THE DIFFERENT PATHWAY THEY HAVE CHOSEN

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR PDS

SENIOR PDS & LITERACY SKILLS (INTEGRATED)

Term 1: TEACHING A SKILL TO THE YEAR 7S PDS LEARNING OUTCOMES: ALL LITERACY: ORACY FOR KNOWLEDGE, WRITING FOR KNOWLEDGE STUDENTS FORM SMALL GROUPS AND DECIDE ON A SKILL TO TEACH TO THE YEAR 7 COHORT THEY ARE IN CHARGE OF THE SESSION AND HAVE TO RUN IT TWICE IN ONE AFTERNOON THEY HAVE TO PLAN THE WORKSHOP , ORGANISE RESOURCES NEEDED TO RUN IT AS WELL AS CONDUCT AN EVALUATION AFTERWARDS THEY THEN HAVE TO COMPLETE A PRESENTATION ON THEIR WORKSHOP TO PRESENT TO THE CLASS IN THE FORM OF A POWERPOINT INCLUDING PHOTOS, SURVEYS AND THEIR OWN REFLECTIONS

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR PDS

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR PDS

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR PDS & LITERACY SKILLS (INTEGRATED)

Term 2: HEALTH AND WELLBEING DAY LEARNING OUTCOMES: ALL Literacy: Oracy and Writing for Practical Purposes, Writing for Knowlwdge Students (in groups) choose a health issue they are passionate about to focus on They choose an organisation who deals with that issue and they make contact with them They then run an awareness and fundraising campaign at school

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR PDS & LITERACY SKILLS (INTEGRATED)

Term 2: SENIOR CITIZEN PROJECT LITERACY OUTCOMES MET: Oracy and Writing for Knowledge, Oracy for Self- Expression

• Partnership with Pascoe Vale Gardens

Retirement Village

• Students partnered with a

“Grandbuddy”

• Interview them and write biography
• Bingo, board games
• This year’s extension: student-planned

activity days (lawn bowls, exercise

SENIOR CITZEN PROJECT CONTINUED

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR PDS & LITERACY SKILLS (INTEGRATED)

Term 3: ABERFELDIE MENTORING PROJECT LEARNING OUTCOMES: ALL

STUDENTS PREPARED SESSIONS FOR THE GRADE 5 AND 6’S AT ABERFELDIE PRIMARY SCHOOL THESE SESSIONS WERE FOCUSED ON BULLYING, TEAMWORK, BEING INCLUSIVE/MAKING FRIENDS AND CONCERNS ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL

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Mentoring Project - Continued

FOR THE FINAL SESSION THE ABERFELDIE STUDENTS CAME TO BUCKLEY PARK COLLEGE WHERE OUR VCAL STUDENTS ORGANISED A SCHOOL TOUR, GAMES & A SAUSAGE SIZZLE IT WAS REWARDING FOR OUR STUDENTS AND THE PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN LOVED THEIR BIG BUDDIES.

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR PDS & LITERACY SKILLS (INTEGRATED)

Term 3/4: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE/ VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN PROJECT

WE DECIDED TO CHOOSE AN ISSUE THAT WAS A CONCERN WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY STUDENTS STUDIED A RANGE OF VIDEOS AND STATISTICS RELATED TO THIS ISSUE AND WERE ASKED TO MAKE SOME OBSERVATIONS FROM THESE THEY ORGANISED FOR A SPEAKER TO COME TO THE SCHOOL AND ADDRESS THE YEAR 10 COHORT, AS A WAY OF RAISING AWARENESS JESSE, FROM REKIAH’S LAW CAME AND SPOKE AND IT WAS EXTREMELY

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS: SENIOR PDS & LITERACY SKILLS (INTEGRATED)

Term 3/4: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE/VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN PROJECT

• IN ADDITION TO THIS STUDENTS ALSO ORGANISED A FUNDRAISER

TO RAISE MONEY TO DONATE TO JESSE FROM REKIAH’S LAW

• THIS PROJECT IS GOING TO BE EXTENDED THIS YEAR AS WE ARE

GOING TO LINK IT TO HOMELESSNESS - BECAUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS A MAJOR CAUSE OF HOMELESSNESS IN VICTORIA

• VCAL STUDENTS ARE GOING TO ORGANISE A WINTER SLEEP OUT AT

SCHOOL, WITH PROCEEDS GOING TO URBAN SEED

STEP OUT WITH CASUAL SHOES AND HELP RAISE AWARENESS AND PUT A STOP TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. WHEN: FRIDAY 18TH OCTOBER WHAT TO DO: WEAR ANY SHOES YOU LIKE AND BRING A GOLD COIN DONATION TO HELP STOP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BY RAISING FUNDS FOR REKIAH’S LAW.

vcafé - Our VCAL-run coffee shop

vcafé - Our VCAL-run coffee shop

• In the past: funded by grant from council
• Poorly run, disorganised, no ownership
• Now: student/school-funded
• Accredited barista course via Coffee School
• Open every Tuesday at recess and lunch
• Runs as a competition between students - whover makes the most

money gets a Nandos feast at the end of the semester.

• Student groups choose 1 specialty item to sell (donuts, icy poles, etc.)

IT’S YOUR TURN!!

• IN YOUR TABLE GROUPS, CHOOSE AN ISSUE AND CONNECT IT WITH

A STUDENT INTEREST TO CREATE A COMPLEX PROJECT THAT YOU COULD RUN AT YOUR SCHOOL.

• YOU HAVE 10 MINUTES AND THEN WE WILL SHARE...

SOCIAL ISSUE STUDENT INTEREST SMOKING MUSIC CHILDHOOD OBESITY SPORT DRINK DRIVING FOOD GAMBLING SOCIAL MEDIA