2000 School Magazine

year 10

PETRIE TERRACE STATE SCHOOL

Service provides the Year 10 students with an opportunity to contribute to the community in a variety of ways. Giving consideration to personal preferences, students are placed in centres such as homes for the elderly child care centres and special education facilities. In Term One of this year I OE participated in service every Tuesday afternoon and four of us visited Petrie Terrace State School in Padding ton. This school has a multi-age learning program that fosters the integration of special needs children into mainstream schooling. The experience was very enjoyable for Megan Pearce, Julia Odgers, Pauline Bapst and myself. We were each assigned a class and worked with children aged five to nine years to help with extension or remedial work. This required patience and maturity, as did Megan's work with the special needs children with Down's Syndrome or Autism. After the ten weeks we found it difficult to conclude our placement and say good-bye to our students and teachers. We were told that we had "contributed so much"and the staff were immensely grateful for all our efforts. Overall, service was a very satisfying and beneficial experience, which I'm sure has helped us re-examine our views on life and discover how a little help can benefit others'

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Service, an integral part of the Year 10 curriculum, provides students with the opportunity of contributing to the community. Each week Geordie Shannon and I were privileged to visit A1kira Village, a centre for Intellectually Disabled Adults run by the Salvation Army. The warm, cheerful personalities of the elderly ladies there were evident amidst the gossip and ritual of painting fingernails (and in some cases toenails!). Afternoons were spent baking cakes and muffins, making birthday cards for one of the ladies, writing letters to relatives, making candles, or simply talking about the previous week's events. Service at A1kira was as enlightening as it was enjoyable, and leaving those wonderful women who were all too willing to smile, laugh or be helpful, was something that was not too easy for Geordie or myself. We felt we had gained so much from our experience at A1kira.

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