Cross curriculum content enriches and supports the learning areas and adds depth to student learning. In NSW students study a range of learning across the curriculum content.
The hospitality industry is one of the largest in Australia, predominately made up of small to medium businesses that provide a range of accommodation, food and beverage services. Dorchester ETU provides students with real life training in Hospitality. Two Chefs are currently working with students. This provides students with appropriate learning opportunities that will enable them to acquire a range of technical, personal and interpersonal skills specifically related to the hospitality industry but applicable to other service industries and careers.
MWLP is a not for profit organisation focused on engaging a community of stakeholders to support youth in their personal and professional career development.
MWLP assists young people make the successful transition from school to work.
The Dorchester Barista program is designed to teach students skills for a barista role in a specialty coffee environment. Students also develop an understanding of appropriate food handling skills. Students learn about espresso equipment and how to use it, as well as science based espresso coffee preparation, espresso extraction stretching and texturing milk and pouring. Students run the Cafe, presenting beverages to staff and visitors to the school.
The Australian Children’s Music Foundation (ACMF)
The students of Dorchester ETU are taught many different aspects of musical expression and are mentored in creative activities, including song-writing, performance and recording. These skills provide significantly increased opportunities to engage meaningfully in the community post release. There have been students who have enrolled in training programs for the music industry, such as audio engineering, or have continued their music making as a form of self-expression.
TAFE NSW
Dorchester ETU continues its partnership with TAFE to deliver a variety of vocational programs including Hair and Beauty, Retail Bakery, Shop Fitting and Painting and Decorating. TAFE Students from Dorchester school completed a variety community projects
The Youth Engagement Strategy (YES) allows our young students to explore skills for future employment in a work place environment and allows them to identify the required level of education or training options required to realise a successful employment pathway. The skills, knowledge and attitudes developed through the YES programs enables students to make informed decisions about whether they would like to pursue a career in the industry or they can take the basics skills they have developed for use at home.
Karitane program
The Karitane program supports students learn parent skills that enable them to have success in an exciting and challenging time and Karitane have been the leaders in parenting services since 1923. They provide support and education on the unique challenges of parenting to mums and dads with children from birth to 5 years of age. All our services are evidence based and delivered by a caring and highly trained professional team of child and family health nurses, paediatricians, social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists offering complete holistic care.
Horse assisted learning program
Horse Assisted Learning Program, students were able to explore life skills through experiential and experimental interactions with horses. The horse assisted learning program is considered an effective mode of cognitive behaviour therapy that is a novel approach to the development of life skills and solution based problem solving.
The horse assisted learning program allows students of all ages to experience a simulation of life scenarios and experiment with their own strategies and solutions to the hypothetical problem presented to them.
The concepts that were explored, included – confidence and confidence building, trust, problem solving, team work and self awareness.
Cross curriculum priorities
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
- Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia
- sustainability
General capabilities
- critical and creative thinking
- ethical understanding
- information and communication technology capability
- intercultural understanding
- literacy
- numeracy
- personal and social capability
Other learning across the curriculum areas
- civics and citizenship
- difference and diversity
- work and enterprise.
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