PDHPE Faculty – Damien Trevillion
Through the study of Personal Development, Health and Physical Education courses, students develop the knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes needed to take action to protect and enhance their own and others’ health, safety and wellbeing in varied and changing contexts.
Surf Survival Course
This week 36 students from the OLM PASS and Marine classes met at South Cronulla SLSC for their Surf Survival Course. In completing this, students will be able to participate in the many open water sports and activities on offer here at the College.
As part of the course the students had to complete a 200m swim in under 5 minutes, demonstrate competency paddling on a surfboard, complete a board rescue, demonstrate competent CPR techniques and complete a written test. The students completed the course in beautiful conditions, all be it a little windy and all were extremely well behaved, which the Lifeguards all commented on.
This now enables the students to participate in activities such as: surfing, PASS camp, snorkelling and the Marine camp.
Uncle Bruce Shillingsworth Visit
Uncle Bruce Shillingsworth Senior is a proud Budjiti / Murrawari Elder and came to OLM to talk to our Senior and First Nations students on a variety of topics. For our Senior students studying subjects such as: CAFS, PDHPE, SOR, English and Legal Studies it was terrific to hear a detailed insight for a variety of syllabus dots points such as: health inequities; housing; education; lore/law; kinship and; dreamtime just to name a few. The girls were thoroughly engaged throughout the talk and highly valued the first hand accounts.
Our First Nations students also attended the presentation and afterwards were able to have a more intimate chat with Uncle Bruce about their culture and their story and connection to the land. Uncle Bruce thoroughly enjoyed his visit and is planning to come back in NAIDOC week.
Instructional Leader Curriculum – PDHPE