Busy Term for VCAL and Vincit Students

The VCAL and Vincit cohort are off to a flying start this year. Our teaching team has focussed on creating integrated projects that enable students to work collaboratively.

We aim to develop employability skills in our students and give them the competencies they require for a rich and long career path.

You will see our efforts in this shortly once our pop-up shop has been constructed.

The VCAL class 12S designed and is building our shop to feature in the College grounds at lunchtimes and parent functions throughout the year. Students have been creative with their product range making their candles, shower jellies, dream catchers, seed bombs, plants and terrariums. All proceeds will go to a worthy cause.

Our Garden to Table Program continues to thrive with tomatoes so plentiful that we had to freeze some. I am looking forward to a bolognese sauce cooked by our students later in the term. One of our Vincit classes turned their hand to cooking recently, putting on a BBQ for the school community to raise money for Project Compassion.

Other learning this term included:

• Researching the purchase of a car
• The use and creation of formulas in Microsoft Excel
• Investigating career path timelines
• Assisting in Year 7 PE classes by running basketball and taking fitness test measurements
• Design activities using Lego.

Narelle Layton

Applied Learning Leader