Skills for Living
"The Shop" is open every Wednesday at lunchtime. We rely on volunteers from family members and friends to help prepare lunches and assist with the students purchases. The students enjoy the process of ordering their lunches in the mornings from a selected menu and going to the shop at lunch to purchase what they had ordered. Even if they do not put in an order students still come to purchase drinks etc. It is a great learning environment for money skills with no pressure.
Eddies Edibles is an integrated program organised by teachers and operated by the students of the school. This involves senior students learning about healthy eating, following directions from a recipe and accurately measuring ingredients. Each week at Recess the students sell the items they have made to the other students, enabling them to practice their money skills.
Veg Out is the name of a shop, operated by the students at St Edmund's. This activity has been designed for the KLA Work Education.
St Edmund's believes that we should be considering work placement for our students after they finish school. This shop gives the students valuable experience in a work place.
Students learn about:
- Work contracts
- Following instructions
- Filling in time sheets
- Literacy and numeracy work
- Responsibilities of the employee
- Responsibilities of the employer
The shop opens every Wednesday. Staff leave their order for fruit and vegetables. The fruit and vegetables are delivered straight from the market. The students weigh, price, package the fruit and vegetables and then deliver the order to the respective staff member.
This project was extremely successful in 2008 and will continue in 2009.