Wantirna College Newsletter

VCE VM 

Senior School

VCE VM Literacy

This term the VCE Vocational Major (VM) students have undertaken the $20 Boss Program as part of their Unit 4 studies in Literacy. The $20 Boss Program is a funded program which supports young people to create a product or service using $20 per student as seed funding. The program is designed to make learning explicit through focusing on twelve enterprise learning skills such as critical and creative thinking, teamwork and entrepreneurship. Students work to actively improve these skills through the process of identifying problems, ideating solutions, planning for business trading and evaluating their achievements and learning progress.

 

At Wantirna College our students dived head first into this amazing program, developing businesses that challenged their abilities to plan and implement. Some examples of businesses created by our students include:

  • Car Wash
  • Screen Printing business to customise staff yard duty vests
  • Candle Making
  • Face Painting
  • Many business selling high quality food products such as brownies, cookies, gourmet popcorn and a sausage sizzle

Most groups were able to turn profits from their businesses, leading to a surplus that will be used to celebrate our class achievements at the end of the VM program this week.

 

Congratulations to our wonderful Year 12 VM students for their continuous effort and engagement in their Literacy studies this year. We will miss you as students, and we will miss you as humans.

 

Andrew Biggs & Stephen Daw

VCE VM Literacy Teachers

R U OK? Project:

This term the Year 12 VCE VM were undertaking their major assessment for Unit 4 Personal Development Skills (PDS).  This assessment required students to plan, implement and evaluate an extended community project for the R U OK? Foundation.  To complete this project students worked individually or in small groups to run a range of activities to raise awareness, fundraise for and support the R U OK? Foundation.  Some of the activities the VCE VM students facilitated included:

  • Bake sale
  • Sausage sizzle
  • Fidget spinner workshop
  • Creation of a mural
  • Lunchtime sporting activities
  • How to have an R U OK? conversation

We are so proud of all the effort the Year 12 VCE VM students put into this project.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the students and staff that supported the activities on the day and in the lead up to it.

 

Tim Knowles & Darren Hoogkamer

Yr 12 Personal Development Skills Teachers