Launching into High School is a lateral thinking, activity based program specifically designed for students starting off on the high school journey. Focuses on the core ‘welcoming skills’ the students identify, ads a result of participating in a diverse range of tasks/challenges/activities that enable them to experience welcoming skills that work or are less effective. Students are challenged to practice and expand both their knowledge and skills, enabling them to build confidence in their ability to navigate their first year of high school.
Launching Into High School equips and empowers students with the following learning goals and outcomes …
- Exploring what they intuitively understand as the core skills to function effectively as a high school student
- Articulate their culturally specific understanding of the core skills of teamwork, communication, problem solving and creativity
- Experiencing a multi faceted approach to tasks each designed to enable students to shift their intuition to practical skills required to:
– effectively operate as a team
– communicate clearly in diverse environments
– recognise challenges and employ skills to overcome them
– discern the presenting and underlying problems in a lateral challenge/activity
– develop and apply their creativity.
As per Personal and Social Capabilities in the National Curriculum, students are invited to establish personal priorities and demonstrate initiative to achieve personal goals; and explain how relationships differ between peers, parents, teachers and other adults, and identify the skills needed to manage different types of relationships.