Secondary Community News 

Lower Secondary (Years 7-8)

This week, year 7/8 students continued to have time to settle in after the 2-week holiday. They slowly returned to their daily routines and adjusted to the new timetable. Students explored the ideas of "wants" and "needs" as they began to unfold the Inquiry topic for this Term, Economy. In Maths, students learned about solving addition problems, collecting data and money. They also started to identify different jobs, and planned for their job application writing in the following weeks.

Upper Secondary (Years 9-10)

WOW-THE WORLD OF WORK

During their two years in the Upper Secondary department at Jackson School, students work collaboratively in project teams which have a career/work-place focus.  The goal is to plan for, and manage a fully functioning school café, providing meals for staff and visitors on a take-away or dine-in basis. Year 9/10 classes form teams                                                                                         which include a Production Team, a Finance                                                                                        Team, a Service Team and a Marketing team                                                                                         which work together to run their business.  

The primary focus is on employability skills.  The students learn to run, plan, market and evaluate the business and begin to identify interests and strengths for their own possible future pathways.   Skills are taught and developed in the areas of Communication, Teamwork / Collaboration, Planning and Organising, Self-Management, Learning, Problem Solving, Initiative & Enterprise and Technology, and are also integrated with the regular curriculum areas of Literacy (reading, speaking and listening and writing and numeracy (money, data collection and interpretation, calculation and financial numeracy).

Students work collaboratively in all aspects of the project and receive accredited third-part training in the areas of work safety, safe food handling practices and barista training.  A morning coffee service facility is also provided to the school community (staff, parents and visitors).

Sue and the students of 9/10D are this term’s Production Team. They are learning to:

-  Prepare ingredients

- Use of Personal Protection Equipment

- Knife skills

- Practising good hygiene

- Cook ingredients

                                                           - Write procedural text of recipes

                                                           - Name and price the products

                                                           - Label the product

 Talesha and the Year 9/10C team are the Service Team.  Their role will include:

- Creating order forms 

- Deliver take away orders 

- Provide a ‘Dine-In’ experience during lunch. (Set up tables, cutlery, glasses etc.) 

- Wear Uniform 

- Create Lunchtime Roster 

- Provide brown paper bags with orders to the kitchen. 

- Put orders into a list. Cross check with staff absences. 

Gabrielle and her team in 9/10B are the Finance Team. They will:

- Use square point of sale system to collect payments.  

- Put menu items into Square POS.  

- Purchase order weekly 

- Woolworths orders. 

- Calculate profit and loss 

                                                           - Hand out order forms for the following week. 

Ian and students from 9/10A are the Marketing Team.  Their role is to:

• Update the Square website
• Newsletter article every second week. 
• Other suggested activities: Rap Song, café jingle, posters, letters to customers, create little free samples. 
• Weekly Microsoft Team posts to staff

This Friday (05/05), students from Yr 9/10 A and 9/10B are visiting the Victoria Market to see traders and their businesses in action and as part of their Travel Education studies.  Students from Yr 9/10C and 9/10D will do the same excursion. 

On Wednesday 10th May, Gabrielle and Vu and 8 of our female students will be attending the Young Women in Trades and Tech Expo at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. 

Senior Secondary (VCAL/ASDAN)

ASDAN

This term we have resumed our offsite programs with great enthusiasm.

This week we were pleasantly surprised when we found our vegetables growing nicely at Westvale Gardens. All of the students were able to take freshly picked spinach home

ASDAN students have also been enjoying developing their independent living skills by engaging in shopping activities, buying their own lunches and socialising with new friends.

VPC

WORK EXPERIENCE AT HAIR AND BEAUTY AND DIMMEYS

I enjoy doing work experience every Wednesday and every Friday. 

I go to Brotherhood on Wednesday and on Friday I go to Hair/beauty. 

Vivan P.

I enjoy hair and beauty every Friday because 

I am learning about products and make up.

Levinia P.

I enjoy work experience every Friday. I go to Dimmey’s.  At Dimmey’s I fold the pillow cases and bed sheets and put things back on the right shelf with the right products.  Joshua.