VCAL

Fareshare Kitchen

We have started Term 3 full of running in VCAL with the Senior students volunteering at the FareShare kitchens in the city. The company rescues food from places like supermarkets and local farmers and then turns this into meals for people that are less fortunate. Over the two days the students made a total of 3,608 quiches and prepared and packaged 1’000’s more meals it was an amazing effort and all students thoroughly enjoyed the experience and working well as collective team.

Dodgeball

Boys getting ready to compete in a lunchtime Dodgeball competition facilitated by Year 11 VCAL student, Leigh Gibson, as part of his VCAL PDS school project.

Intermediate Market Day

Throughout this term all Intermediate VCAL students have been preparing to participate in a ‘$20 Boss’ Competition - set up by the Foundation for Young Australians – where students are involved in the set up and running of a small business. During Work-related skills classes students have been working hard creatively designing a service or a good they could sell and are now at the marketing stage of their small business.

On Parent/teacher evening- Thursday 6th September from 12 to 6, the VCAL students will show case their small businesses together in the theatre foyer.

Please come along (with lots of small change) and be supportive of these students and their hard work. There will be approximately 20 stall holders (70 students) selling goods such as cookies, candles and crafts.

The whole process of starting up and running their own business involves not only creative thinking but improving skills such as communication, teamwork, digital and financial literacy. We would really love it if all parents and students were able to spend some time at each stall talking to students about their ideas and processes when you come to pick up your child’s interim report.

Kim Vines

WRS Teacher

VCAL Coordinator

VCAL PDS Program

This year Cranbourne Secondary College has created a Year 11 VCAL Human Powered Vehicle racing (HPV) team. The team consists of approximately 34 students and 2 teachers. We will be competing in a Class vs Class Challenge on September 20th, in the 2018 Victorian HPV series on October 13th and in the Maryborough RACV energy Breakthrough Race held on Nov 21 - 25. Over the last couple of months during our PDS classes we have been training for these events and will be bringing a well-equipped group to participate. We have been training on bikes loaned from the Casey shire and on the HPV’s which we sourced from a Primary school. Our training has been conducted at school on the oval and in the big gym. We have also been training at the Casey fields race track preparing ourselves for the upcoming competitions.

This will be our first year of entering the RACV Energy Breakthrough challenge and have entered the Try-Athlon race. This consists of participating in an Obstacle course challenge, a Time Trial and an 8-hour afternoon/night race. Students will also participate in a 20-minute presentation about aerodynamics, sustainability, the impact of carbon emissions on the environment, health and fitness, technology, manufacturing and training. We are grateful for this opportunity and are keen to prove ourselves.

Regards

VI1 and VI2