Specialist Activities and Programs

Auslan

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In 2024, our school moved to Auslan as our second language offering. This move was to ensure that our school remains inclusive, recognising that our students are most likely to find themselves in a situation where they may need to communicate with a deaf or hard of hearing individual.

Students learn about:

• Deaf culture and etiquette
• Hand shapes and body language
• Key word signs, sentence structure and fluency

Our students begin with learning to sign colours, animals, letter of the alphabet and even work up to signing the National Anthem to sign at assembly.

This subject is taught by a specialist teacher at our school.

Physical Education (P.E)

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Keeping students physical and outdoors is important to us. The explicit teaching of specific sports skills is critical to developing balance, positive mindsets and core/upper body strength. Our students have access to high quality equipment and resources to learn the basics of athletics, sports and prime physical health.

Students learn about the:

• Processes and procedures for kicking, catching, throwing
• Importance of practicing and applying skills through placing soccer, football, cricket, tennis, bike riding, swimming etc
• Importance of a healthy mind and body in the modern world
• Representation of our school in swimming, cross country and athletics events in the community

This subject is taught by a specialist teacher at our school.

Discovery

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The areas of Science, History and Geography are taught with an inquiry lens through our subject of Discovery. Students learn about how the world works on a hands-on basis, with practical knowledge and skills required to be informed and active members of society.

Students learn about:

• Potential natural disasters related to our region, in particular bushfires, and how they impact the livelihoods of local communities
• The role of the different sciences, chemical, biological and physical, in our world
• Historical perspectives from around the world, at different time periods, including those perspectives of our indigenous communities.

This subject is taught by a specialist teacher at our school.

Resilience

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Mindfulness, empathy and gratitude are essential skills that all young people must develop to become effective members of society. Our school recognises this and devotes critical teaching time to the explicit building of these skills. Each term, students deep dive into an area of the Resilience Project.

Students learn about:

• Respect for gender differences, inclusion and acceptance
• Positive coping strategies and resilience
• Being thankful for what one has and looking at different cultures for perspective
• Emotional regulation strategies and being mindful of our body and what it is telling us.

This subject is taught by a specialist teacher at our school.

Kitchen-Garden Program

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We are lucky to have an expansive vegetable garden where we teach our students about the life cycle of plants. The harvesting and planting of seeds is important to our school, ensuring we have particular produce throughout the year. We have an active parent body in helping us maintain our vegetable gardens. Our students have voice in what is cooked in the kitchen and the produce to be used.

Students learn about:

• Seasonal planting and harvesting
• Plant and soil care
• Recipe reading and writing
• Food hygiene and preparation
• Kitchen equipment safe usage including safe knife usage
• Science of heat and the change in food matter when heat and cold is applied

This subject is taught by our classroom teachers and parent body.

STEM

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STEM stands for: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. At Osbornes Flat Primary School, our students learn the important role that all four of these areas play in coding and digital technologies. This is a heavily technology based subject. Students work from their school allocated devices to create new programs for a replanned purpose.

Students learn about:

• Appropriate technology use
• Various programs and applications related to curriculum outcomes
• Programming and coding, animations and presentations
• Computer sciences

This subject is taught by our classroom teachers.

We are always looking to bring our students new and exciting subjects to learn each year.