Children Services

Congratulations to Karen Noah, who this week finished all her theory for the Cert III Children Services Course. She is also half way through her practicals and now needs to go more often to practicals to get this side of the competencies marked off.

Students in Year 11 and 12 have started planning for the Childcare Room at the Year 10 Subject Selection evening. The first thing they have done is to find and assess spaces within the school for their appropriateness for children. Last year the parents that had children appreciated being able to leave them with the girls so that they could talk to the teachers/tutors on their own.

Ms Cate

Children Services

This week students in Year 12 and TAVE finished their theory unit on “Working Effectively With Families” in the one day! Well done Kernisha, Tiaella and Natalie! It was the Year 11 students' turn to perform observations on students in Ms. Sian's class. They wrote good observations for their first time and will complete the unit next week. Kernisha has been our star student, attending practical days and progressing very well through her theory. Well done Kernisha! Unfortunately, Aileen was absent.

Ms Cate

Cert III Children's Services

This week the students worked extremely hard on a unit which tests their understanding of monitoring children's development as well as their interests and needs. Ms. Sian was gracious enough to let us come down to her class and the Year 12 students did an anecdotal observation and a time sample observation. They got the hang of it very quickly! Aileen in particular did a great job and was very thorough.

Miss Cate

AIN - Childcare - PASS News

This semester has seen 5 new students commence the Health Services Assistance course through TAFE. They join 45 other students in a comprehensive course for 5 months to complete the competencies necessary for AIN (Assistant in Nursing). They attend TAFE every Friday for lectures / tutorial and complete the assessments at school on their VET day. A busy time.

We have started with Infection Control procedures, growing bugs on agar jelly and learning how to put on and use personal protective equipment, (PPE). We feel like real nurses!

UPDATE: the ‘graduates’ from Semester 1:
Annie Mabo is now training as a paramedic,
Liz Gebadi is doing work experience with Apunipima (& hoping for work), and
Shakira Thaiday is applying for jobs.

Children’s Services: Year 12 students have been working solidly through their units, but some need to up the anti on their practical experience in order to finish by the end of the year. So far, all are prepared to do some prac over the holidays which is great! The students have been enjoying various activities such as making Gloop and doing collage. Kernisha (TAVE student) went to her day care centre and told them about the Gloop and her group leader asked her to organise a “Gloop” activity for the centre. The children loved it and the group leader was very impressed with Kernisha!

Congratulations to Esther Asai (last year TAVE student) who has completed her Cert III Children Services certificate with me by mail and phone! She is currently working at Masig Ipkazil Childcare Centre as an assistant childcare worker.