Today the Conference Room at Mercedes was turned into a makeshift kindy classroom as part of the Year 11 Children, Family and Community (CFC) ATAR students’ task on Culture and Social Cohesion.
The unit focusses on inclusivity and diversity within the pre-primary setting and to make it more authentic, an invitation was issued to Se Peter’s Primary School for their kindy students to come, visit and play.
Their visit included a morning tea under our big tree in Catherine’s Garden, a didgeridoo performance and a play session with both our CFC and Aboriginal students. The CFC students had spent several lessons planning and creating ten activity stations including a cave for painting, an Australian animal play table, a reading corner and a nature table. The classroom was buzzing with excitement and chatter as 29 little people moved from station to station exploring the wonderful activities the girls had created. They had fun making slithering snakes, dot painting boomerangs, playdough rainbow serpents, dotty rock turtles, rainbow bird masks and hopping about with kangaroo tails.
CFC teacher, Mrs Sonya Roberts said the project aligned beautifully with the College’s ethos of Mercy.
‘This unit enables is a great opportunity for our students to gain a better understanding of the Aboriginal and Torres Straits peoples and to share pride in our complete and balanced national story”.
The unit focusses on inclusivity and diversity within the pre-primary setting and to make it more authentic, an invitation was issued to Se Peter’s Primary School for their kindy students to come, visit and play.
Their visit included a morning tea under our big tree in Catherine’s Garden, a didgeridoo performance and a play session with both our CFC and Aboriginal students. The CFC students had spent several lessons planning and creating ten activity stations including a cave for painting, an Australian animal play table, a reading corner and a nature table. The classroom was buzzing with excitement and chatter as 29 little people moved from station to station exploring the wonderful activities the girls had created. They had fun making slithering snakes, dot painting boomerangs, playdough rainbow serpents, dotty rock turtles, rainbow bird masks and hopping about with kangaroo tails.
CFC teacher, Mrs Sonya Roberts said the project aligned beautifully with the College’s ethos of Mercy.
‘This unit enables is a great opportunity for our students to gain a better understanding of the Aboriginal and Torres Straits peoples and to share pride in our complete and balanced national story”.
