Year 8 Life Skills

Year 8 Life Skills Program

The Life Skills program was aimed to assist students learn important skills to help navigate their way through the world, giving them the confidence to take on anything.

Our first program consisted of a bus trip to Emerald. We had a game of ‘bingo’ where students had to find landmarks and some random acts of kindness which was a lot of fun and gave us many laughs.

We went to meet with John and Robbie at JL Automotive with the first group, they showed us how to change oil, water, wiper blades and a tyre and everything they needed to know about maintenance on a car.

From there we went to Emerald Library to get a tour, explaining how to borrow a computer, print and scan documents.

Then we walked up to CommBank and had Dylan explain features of an ATM, loans and the importance of savings. The students were keen to hear about personal loans and how interest works. We were feeling pretty hungry after this so went to get some lunch from The Chookery, where we compared prices and estimated change we would be given.

As it was the week of Remembrance Day, we took the opportunity to enjoy the poppies and pay our respects, we took the long way back to the bus stop along ANZAC walk.

   

The following week, again we caught the bus to Emerald and today’s game was to try not to say certain words, such a “What” and “Question” which we all found very difficult and it wasn’t long before we started losing tokens!

First stop was the CFA where Klaus spoke to us about all the amazing benefits of being a volunteer. The boys were encouraged to join the cadets and had a tour of the station and inspect the trucks and all the equipment they hold.

Will Robinson put his hand up to put on a uniform and use the hose, although just as he’d finished gearing up – the alarm went off and before we knew it firefighters were running about and screeching into the car park.

We promptly got out of their way, yet waited outside to see them leave, with lights and sirens!

After the excitement we walked to the Martial Arts Gym to begin our self defence training with Sensai. We all found this session extremely interesting and the smile on students’ faces doing the practical drills said it all!

Our final adventure was a trip to the movies. We worked on resumes and caught up on any extra work while the students planned the movie session times around public transport. We went to the Cameo to see ‘The Creator’ which brought up some interesting conversations about artificial intelligence. By the time we got back to school it was home time.

We reflected on our time together and what we all had learnt. Everyone had different feedback about their favourite outing during the Life Skills program and were very polite, thanking the Inclusion Learning Assistants and volunteers for the experience. Initially the students were anxious about a range of things, but their feedback reflected they’d feel more confident completing these tasks in the future.

Tanja Korsten – Assistant Principal

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