Community Learning Project (CLP)

For the past few weeks, students from Mount Waverley Secondary College have created a Community Learning Project (CLP) here at the Snowy River Campus. The project we are doing is called the H.O.S.T. Program (Helping Overall School Transitions) and our aim is to begin ‘strengthening school support’ between the campus’ in our school, as well as surrounding primary schools.

Our team includes: Laura Chauca Diaz, Joshua Griffiths-Hunt, Rhys Incoll, Jessalyn Lim and Jack Sephton. Our vision is for a community where the students, teachers and parents from Mount Waverley Secondary College and surrounding primary schools are connected and are able to communicate between each other to form relationships freely and easily.

We hope to strengthen the bond between our school’s campus’ by getting students to move between the different sites. We will get students from the senior site to play games with the students of the junior school, and have a small information day where we will get them to familiarise themselves with the senior site map. We will also tell them any differences between the junior and senior classes and the overall school days. Senior students will also participate in the junior campus’ classes, and help them with their work during the lesson, to aid them in their learning. All of these activities will get the students to form relationships with the older students from our senior site – who they will see in future years.

We will also work with the year eight leaders and go to different local primary schools to participate in various activities with the students. We will have a small ‘interview’ to answer any questions, and ease any worries, they may have about high school, as well as run a high school simulation day to get the students comfortable with the idea of moving up to secondary.