WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING IN PDHPE ELECTIVES?

YEAR 11 PDHPE: OUTDOOR REC HIKE 

On 28th and 29 July, 29 Year 11 PDHPE students and 4 staff members attended a two day hike. The hike was essential for successfully completing the outdoor recreation option.

 

On day one, group one was dropped off at Kioloa boat ramp and walked North to South for 13km. Group two was dropped off half an hour away from group one and walked a total of 8km which included muddy bush-bashing.

At 3pm, group one and two met at Pebbly Beach and set up camp for the night. Highlights for day one include the many leeches, Mr Higgins love for the outdoors, Charly’s food poisoning, the never ending list of Jack’s and Finn and Ms Frew’s metho contaminated dinner. 

 

At Pebbly Beach, the students spent time setting up their tarps, making fires, cooking dinner and cleaning up. The night ended with a few games including the chicken game, music game, where can the magic bus go and what did Mr Ellul buy from woolies?

Day two was an early morning start and the students set off at 7:30am. Group Two walked South to North for 13km. Group One walked North to South for 8km. Group One finished a few hours early and ended the hike with hot chips at Kioloa. The bus picked up Group One first followed by Group Two. The students and staff returned to school at 2pm on Friday afternoon. 

Paris Gauci, Byron Trethewey & Izabela Komadina

YEAR 11 EXPLORING EARLY CHILDHOOD WORK PLACEMENT 

Year 11 EEC have recently completed 4 days work placement in local childcare centres and primary schools.

This allowed the students an invaluable opportunity to put theory into practice. We are very grateful to the 10 local centres and educators that shared their knowledge and passion for education of young people with our students.

The students all came back with positive experiences and reflections which have been included below.

We would like to thank the following centres and schools for being so welcoming for our students and for providing them with an amazing first hand experience into the education of young children.

• • Greenwell Point Public School
  • Bright Minds Academy South Nowra
  • Kangaroo Valley Preschool
  • Natural Play Children's Centre Berry
  • Pelican Point Long Day Care Centre St Georges Basin
  • St Michael’s Primary School
  • Arwons Little Angels child care Centre Nowra
  • North Nowra Preschool
  • Echidna Early Learning Centre
  • North Nowra Primary School

YEAR 11 SPORT, LIFE AND RECREATION 

YEAR 10 CHILD STUDIES 

BUSHCRAFT

Our awesome Year 10 Bushcraft classes are currently finishing off our Rockcraft unit and moving onto Land Conservation and Management.

Students have learnt to tie several new knots including the Super Munter, Figure 8 on the Bight, the Munter-mule Overhand and many more. The classes used these skills to learn how to rig climbs and apply knots in a range of different scenarios for safety and efficiency.

They also learnt how to climb and abseil safely. This included our safety calls, climbing techniques, equipment management, what to do in an emergency etc.

The last technique the students will be learning is vertical mobility i.e. learning to move up and down a rope using Prussiks.

 

We have only just commenced our Land Management and Conservation unit, but the students are already hard at work planning lessons on how we can tackle local issues near our school.

The photos below are from a recent lesson where we took on the garbage in and around our school. This is the simplest form of Land Management, but is often one of the most neglected. The garbage bags seen in the photos below were mostly collected from the back oval. This highlights the big change we all need to make in being responsible for our waste.

Mrs Rachel Frew

PDHPE Coordinator