Traralgon College Visions 2020
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CONTENTS Principal’s Reports ...........................................................................2 Headstart .....................................................................................................40 Connected Learning in Community ..........5 VCAL ........................................................................................................................41 R U OK Day .................................................................................................6 VET Building & Construction ...............................42 Resilience, Rights VET Hospitality ...................................................................................44 & Respectful Relationships ...........................................7 Senior Food Studies ..............................................................45 Eat Up .......................................................................................................................7 Senior Art ......................................................................................................46 Wear it Purple Day........................................................................8 Senior Media ......................................................................................50 Biogas Generator ...........................................................................9 Year 12 Outdoor Ed ..............................................................51 Sport ........................................................................................................................ 10 Year 12 Sociology ......................................................................52 Swimming Sports .......................................................................... 12 Careers .............................................................................................................53 Active Women .................................................................................... 14 Class of 2020 ...................................................................................54 Wakakirri ........................................................................................................16 Year 12 Profiles ................................................................................56 Remote Learning ........................................................................... 18 Staff ...........................................................................................................................59 Food Studies ..........................................................................................22 Video Links ................................................................................................62 Junior Outdoor Education.......................................24 Year 7...................................................................................................................26 Year 7 Remote Learning Art .................................29 Year 8 Art .....................................................................................................32 Year 9 Maths ........................................................................................31 Year 9 Art .....................................................................................................32 Year 9 Masks & Makeup ..........................................34 Forensic Science ............................................................................35 Year 9 Science ..................................................................................36 Year 9 Tech School Visit ................................................38 TRARALGON COLLEGE YEARBOOK 2020 1 COLLEGE PRINCIPAL’S REPORT Unprecedented and a year learning, what will work best for students?’ The result was like no other. The Coronavirus a model of teaching, learning and care that provided pandemic ensured that 2020 outstanding support for students, clear communication will be remembered as a to parents/carers and structured interventions when time of great upheaval and individuals faced challenges. The capacity of our staff uncertainty across the globe. In to innovate, create and adapt practices to ensure we every country the provision of best met the needs of our students is something we are student learning and wellbeing, immensely proud of and an experience through which and the ability for students we have learnt a lot. and parents to access schools and school staff was suddenly STUDENTS and abruptly altered, in some instances for months on end. The Our students began this year full of hope, expectation response of Traralgon College students, staff and parents/ and excitement, particularly our Year 7s and Year 12s. carers was nothing short of exceptional. As we approach What began as an exciting new year quickly became the end of the year I’m filled with a great sense of pride in something no one expected. In a matter of weeks our the way our school community continues to adapt, support students had to develop new organisation, planning each other and respond to this year’s events. and time management as well as the ability to navigate multiple online platforms and systems. They had to work COMMUNITY out how to learn on their own and how to seek support via email, Compass, video conference and/or phone. Parents, carers and community members are integral to Students were without daily face to face interaction from the success of our school and the quality of learning that teachers, support staff and their friends who play such students receive. Parent/carer support at home reinforces a critical role in young peoples’ learning and health. In the value of education and enhances students’ capacity effect they had to re-learn how to learn. Our students’ to succeed at school. Opportunities for our students to response was brilliant. Their capacity to respond positively interact with the ‘real world’ extends and brings meaning to the changes and uncertainty was exemplary. They to their learning through applied and real life experiences. found new ways of connecting with friends and in many This year parents/carers and the community were forced instances were able to teach school staff effective ways to dramatically change their involvement with students’ of using new technologies. Most importantly they stayed learning and their involvement with the school. Parents/ engaged and focussed on their learning and connection carers became home school tutors, set up daily routines, to our great school. changed physical environments and altered their own work and life schedules to support their child/children. On the second week of Term 4 students returned to face Community organisations set up webinars and online to face classes and as the term progressed, restrictions interactive sessions to keep our students connected. Many on what we could do relaxed as COVID case numbers workplaces continued to provide Structured Workplace in Victoria decreased. For students, parents/carers, staff Learning for our senior students under COVID safe and the community, this was a welcome development – conditions. The result was that our students experienced nothing can substitute the quality of in-person interaction minimal disruption and continued their learning supported for effective teaching, learning and support. Our challenge by this outstanding support and care. now is to weave the effective practices we trialled throughout this year with the systems and structures of onsite STAFF schooling. Traralgon College is committed to providing the highest quality education and care to every student now At the end of Term 1 our staff were told they had four and into the future, and as we conclude a year like no days to prepare for remote learning and work. While this other, our school is more committed to improvement and sentence sounds simple, it was in fact a mammoth task. our community more connected, vibrant and supportive Preparing to teach and support students remotely required than it has ever been before. every staff member to rethink their entire job, disregarding known ways of working and create a whole new model of Michael Shone schooling. Released from the constraints of past practices, Acting College Principal our staff began with the simple question, ‘In remote 2 TRARALGON COLLEGE YEARBOOK 2020 SENIOR PRINCIPAL’S REPORT Despite the challenges that of excursions for students participating in Health and Traralgon College students, Physical Education subjects and we have continued to staff and families have faced, hold lunchtime activities which have proven popular. Our this year has provided the student leadership team has managed to find ways to opportunity for all to come connect to their peers remotely and develop plans for together in an overwhelmingly implementation in 2021 when we hope that schools positive and supportive manner. return without the level of restrictions that we currently This is a credit to all who work, operate in. The careers team has continued to provide learn and support our school opportunities for student to participate in work experience and community. and we successfully trialled a Virtual Work Placement program for those students in VCAL who were unable to At the beginning of the year we attend their work placement in person. We look forward welcomed our Year 10 students to next year and hope that we can once again run our to a revised program where they participated in one camps and extra-curricular programs that we have had extra period a week of Math and