Secondary Year 11

Highlights for Term 2

The Year 11 students have been working particularly hard throughout the term.  Their integrated topic, Community Connections: What’s Out There, focusing on identifying support services within our community.  These are services that students may utilise in their lives outside of school.  Integrating Literacy, Numeracy and Personal Development Skills, each class will now spend time further researching their chosen service in order to report on and present to the other classes about the venue that they visited. 

A major focus of the term was to plan and attend a two-night, three-day Melbourne City Experience camp, staying at the CYC’s City Camp, situated in Collins Street.  This venue is a fully-refurbished 1910 heritage-listed building located in the heart of Melbourne.  Our group was allocated two secure sections, each with a common room to hang out in.

Making the most of our central camp location, the group walked and used public transport to access the various activities.  With a focus on becoming more familiar with our city and also building independence, resilience and teamwork skills, the itinerary included:

• Eating out at restaurants;
• Galactic Circus and Bowling or Laser Tag;
• The Hoddle Waddle scavenger hunt around the city;
• Drinks at the Ice Bar (mocktails only, of course!)
• Eureka Tower;
• Movies at Crown;
• Artvo; and
• A VR Arena experience.

The group travelled back to Concord School in peak hour on public transport.  The three days were jam-packed with activities, everybody tried something new, and we walked almost 

35kms – no wonder we all slept well each night!