From OSHC
From OSHC
Creativity, Culture and Connections in October Vacation Care!
During the October vacation care, students had a relaxing and fun holiday participating in a wide variety of activities planned for excursions, incursion and at-home days.
In the first week, students acknowledged and celebrated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditions, customs and celebrations through dance, drama and music with Aboriginal artists at Carclew. They combined gross and fine motor movement and balance to achieve complex drama and dancing movements and extended their creativity in writing their own songs as well as sharing them with the group. Students also enjoyed their VR incursion where they had chances to experience different job roles through Job Simulation on VR. On Under The Sea Day, students had explored and learned about various sea animals through educational video and crafts. On OSHC Olympics Day, they were challenged in a variety of active courses, such as obstacle course and tennis competition in the gym. On Art Day, they had
In the second week, students showed their openness to challenges such as skating and arcade games. Many students had their first try at skating and playing arcade games. They showed incredible persistence in skating when they fell and got up again and again during skating. Students were actively asking questions regarding those different arcade machines and how it worked. Students explored new ways to create hats and a habitat for their favourite pet with recycled materials on Mad Hatter’s Day and Inventor’s Day. By learning the cycle of design, students participated in a variety of rich and meaningful inquiry-based activities such as determining what a pet needs in a habitat, how to create the items with recycled materials available.
In summary, students had a wonderful school holiday at vacation care with their friends. Some even made a friend/friend during their time at vacation care, which was exciting to see their friendship developing in play and structured activities.
Capturing Fun and Learning at October Vacation Care!
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 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 interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes
