Vision

A community where primary school students are informed

about the realities that will surface during high school.

Aarya Hatkhambkar, Kar Mern Tong, Chloe Lok

Stephen Kazakis, Andrea Stamotonikolos, Kian Milani

Team 4 2017

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Team Overview 3
About SRC 4
Project Overview 5
Action Plan 6
Lesson Plan & Resources 7
Acknowledgements 8

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In our team we have six different students, Aarya, Chloe, Kar Mern, Kian, Stephen
and Andrea. We all come from East Doncaster Secondary College, each of us have
decided that we would apply for the Snowy River Campus of the School for
Student Leadership. We are all part of the lucky cohort of students that have been
accepted into the program.

As part of the program we have a Community Learning Project (CLP) where we

give back to our local community using the skills we have learnt through the 9
weeks we have studied here. Our plan is to help educate Primary School students
about the realities that surface while transitioning into Secondary School. We will
present this under the vast topic of individuality.

During our journey here, we have experienced many unique and fun activities
including, surfing at Cape Conran, bike riding around the Marlo Plains, two hiking
expeditions throughout the Cape Conran Coastal Park and canoeing on the
Yeerung River and Snowy River Estuary.

All of us came for the same reasons, these reasons were to improve both our
leadership skills and our independence. Throughout this very rewarding
experience, we have found that we have learnt to be more socially aware when
working in teams and how to lead with passion and enthusiasm rather than just
telling people what to do.

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School for Student Leadership
Snowy River Campus
PO Box 85
Marlo, 3888
Phone 61 3 5154 85522
Fax 61 3 5154 8443
alpine.school.snowy.river@edumail.vic.gov.au
www.snoyriver.vi.edu.au

The Snowy River Campus of the School for Student Leadership (SSL) was built in 2006 after the
success of the Alpine School Campus situated high up in the Victorian Alps. It started operating in
2007. The school is now one of the three Residential Campuses which makes up the School for
Student Leadership and funded by the Victorian Department of Education. The core curriculum
focuses on Student Leadership and Personal Growth. More than $3.0 Million was allocated to
construct the 45 Student, state of the art campus and buildings located 9km east of Marlo.

Marlo was chosen because of its close proximity to the beautiful East Gippsland coast and the
wonderfully diverse environments that surround the Campus. Marlo was selected from over 50
other sites that were nominated by rural shires across Victoria. The school occupies a beautiful
location of approximately 15 hectares on the 400 ha airfield reserve. The site is safe and secluded
and has views of the distant Erinunderra Plateau.

The unique surrounding environment caters for a range of unique outdoor activities to take place,
including surfing at Cape Conran, Canoeing at the Yeerung River and in the Snowy River Estuary,
caving at Buchan, mountain biking around the Marlo Plains and hiking throughout the Cape Conran
Coastal Park. The rich indigenous history of the Gunai/Kurnai people and their connection to this
area is a key learning focus, as is our regular interaction with local community groups and schools.

Our School program runs 9-10 weeks and our diverse curriculum includes, Social and Self
Awareness, Metacognition, Cultural Diversity and Decision Making and Actions. Students also obtain
CPR/First Aid and Safe Food Handling qualifications. All students experience being student leader
and there are many opportunities to develop public speaking skills. Students complete a Local
Learning Project and develop a Community Learning Project to be implemented in their home
communities when they return home. All students record their personal journeys in a document
called a Portfolio and which they publish along with daily reflections called IDEARR on a Website.

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Rational and Summary:

Our team has come to an agreement for our CLP to educate children from Primary
Schools we all previously attended, about topics that will help them with their transition
into High School. We have decided to visit three Primary Schools- Beverely Hills, Serpell
and Doncaster Gardens. At each school we will run activities and talk about individuality,
with subtopics under it. Subtopics include diversity, healthy relationships, good wellbeing
and health. We will work in pairs to deliver the program to ensure everyone has a fair
share of work and opportunity to speak as a leader. We will have 90 minutes to run our
program, 20 minutes will be spent on the introduction and we will split the given year level
into three groups. Each workshop will be on a different topic (diversity, healthy
relationships and good health) and every 20 minutes each group will rotate to the next
workshop. To conclude the lesson, we will spend 10 minutes to summarise the key learning
outcomes.

Vision:

Our vision is to have a community where Primary School students are well prepared for
the challenges they will face in making the transition to High School. We believe that
academics and subjects should not be the primary focus, and students should be
supported to develop peer and social skills, so they feel connected within a student
community. We want to use our experience to teach the students so that they can make
the most out of their transition to High School. High school is the period of time when
students often find their identity and are full of curiosity. We want to ensure the new Year 7
students can start on the right pathway, and have the skills and knowledge for the
beginning of High School and future years. Some issues that we will talk about are
individuality, heathy relationships, and good health. We picked these topics as they are
vital in High School, and the understanding of these factors can affect both the students'
academic results and mental health.

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 First Alpine meeting: Our group were given all the information sheets, and
had a Q&A session with our liaison teacher (Ms Embery).
Second Alpine meeting: Our liaison teacher explained to us about the
Before Community Learning Project, and we discussed some ideas.
Snowy Third Alpine meeting: We decided on visiting our primary schools and
teaching students non-academic things that may occur in high school.

Arrival Day (23/7): Everyone arrived at Snowy River Campus, School of

Leadership.
CLP 1 (2/8): We were introduced to CLP for the first time at Snowy. Since
we already had an idea, we were quite on task. We decided on what
topics we would like to teach the primary school children, and who was
hosting which school.
CLP 2 (11/8): Our group discussed what activities we would do with the
children, and did some research on our topics. We also finalised our plan.
CLP 3 (18/8): We began working on the Master Plan (this booklet). We
also emailed the three primary schools to ask for permission to visit the
schools. Serpells accepted our request.
During CLP 4 (21/8): The Master Plan was completed.
Snowy CLP 5 Presentations (13/9): We will print our Master Plan and begin
planning our presentations.
CLP 6 Presentations (14/9): We will finish our presentation speeches and
start rehearsing.
CLP 7 Dress Rehearsal (14/9): All the students at Snowy will have
rehearse their presentation and speeches, and get feedbacks from
Snowy teachers to add some final touches.
CLP Day (15/9): Everyone will present their CLP to their schools, teachers
from both Snowy and their own schools, and principals.

We will present our project in Term Four.

After Snowy

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 Time Timetable
5 min Introduce ourselves
15 min Introduce topics:
- Group 1: Individuality (Stephen & Kian)
- Group 2: Healthy & unhealthy relationships (Kar Mern & Aarya)
- Group 3: Good health (Andrea & Chloe)
20 min Activity rotation 1
20 min Activity rotation 2
20 min Activity rotation 3
10 min Conclusion/Reflection time
Total time: 90min

Group Discussions Activities

Group 1 - Maslow hierarchy - List things you like about
- What makes an individual confident? others and yourself
Group 2 - Maslow hierarchy - Categorising
- What is a relationship? healthy/unhealthy
- What is a healthy/unhealthy relationships
relationship? - Role play
- How to build healthy relationships?
- Who can be sexually abused?
Group 3 - Maslow hierarchy - Videos
- 5 factors of well-being - Activities for each well-
- WHO: definition of good health being
- Why is good health important?
- Importance of breakfast
- Australian Guide to Healthy Eating

Like all projects, we will need some resources in order to make this project occur. We will
need the following items:

- A big space for a whole year level

- Projector for our PowerPoint
- Pens and papers for activities
- Lesson plans and activties

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Throughout the process of crafting our CLP, we received support from a
range of people who all guided us through our journey at SSL and assisted
us with the overall creation of our project.

Our main acknowledgements go out to:

- Mr Reeves Principal of School for Student Leadership

- Mrs. Francis SSL campus principal
- Mrs. Embery Our EDSC liaison teacher
- Mr. Johnston Our SSL liaison teacher

Without these people, we would not have had this amazing opportunity. We
have gained a much vaster knowledge and understanding of leadership.

We too would like to thank the three Primary Schools for showing initiative
for our project and for allowing us to visit their schools; without their
contributions to our project, we would have no project.

- Serpells Primary School

- Doncaster Gardens Primary School
- Beverley Hills Primary School

Of course, we would also like to thank our parents, and the teachers at both
SSL and EDSC for supporting us all the way. Their great support pushed us
forward and gave us motivation to keep working every day.

Thank you!