From OSHC
From OSHC
students had a rich and fun holiday engaging in a wide variety of activities planned for excursions, incursion and at-home days!
In the first week, students were challenged in their senses, such as touch, smell, vision and hearing through slime making, scented stickers craft, mastery food tasting and guessing the sound game on the Sense-ational Exploration Day. On Tuesday, students were encouraged to learn morse code, programming BeeBots and use their own device for Minecraft with their friends. On the Christmas in July day, they had multiple opportunities to bake and cook in small groups with educators. During the excursions to the Science Collective, students learned some facts about dinosaurs, expressed their creativity in clay creation and watched some cool experiments. In their visit to the Living Kaurna Cultural Centre, students had a culturally immersive walk in nature while learning some facts about Aboriginal Cultures. Besides, they all created boomerangs with Aboriginal symbols.
In the second week, students were challenged to build the highest and strongest towers with stem straws, escape the quiet room by solving puzzles and create Lego mazes. During the Lost Dice excursion, they were provided with a massive collection of boardgames and encouraged to try some of their choices with their friends. While older students spent some time learning and playing selected games, young students engaged in a wider variety of games as they explored different choices. On the MissFit gymnastics day, they went through a series of obstacle course set up by the MissFit staff. Students engaged in a meaningful conversation regarding sustainability and various methods of living sustainably by making connections to plausible practices at OSHC and home. They were also encouraged to make dolls and doll clothes with the felt pieces and turn recycled materials into toys or something useful. Students spent a cozy day at OSHC on the last of July vacation care building tents for the movie marathon while enjoying a hot chocolate drinking and some party food.
Ms Ellen Duan
Acting OSHC Director
MTOP outcomes:
- Children develop their emerging autonomy, inter-dependence, resilience and agency
- Children develop knowledgeable, confident self-identities and a positive sense of self-worth
- Children learn to interact in relation to others with care, empathy and respect
- Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment
- Children become strong in their social, emotional and mental wellbeing
- Children become strong in their physical learning and wellbeing
- Children develop a growth mindset and learning dispositions such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity
- Children develop a range of learning and thinking skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating
- Children begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work
- Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes
