A new experience

Learning new skills

For the past three weeks, our Special Education students were given the opportunity to explore textures, sounds and machines  in a very hands on timber program with Mr Faga in the woodwork rooms. There were moments of excitement, nervousness and fear as some of our students had touched a pedestal drill and an electric sander for the very first time. Week by week, we saw our students' eyes and ears light up and confidence gained as they observed or learnt something new. When asked what they loved most about the program, they answered "we loved it and would do it again because it was a lot of fun." 

Each student came out of the program with a pen/photo holder and a key holder to take home to show their parents. I am so proud of the combined efforts from both our students, teachers and student learning support officers and in particular the hours that Mr Faga had put in to make our Timber program a success for our students. 

Ms Pham, Teacher - Special Education