
Moreland Term 2 Week 8
Hi everyone! Last week of the program! How fast did that go?! On Wednesday we spent the morning at the Oxygen Youth Space where the students worked on completing tasks in their journals and started to prepare for their graduation. For the afternoon, we had our bike donation project where we donated brand new bikes supplied by Good Cycles to newly arrived students at the Collingwood English Language School. We spent some time in the gym at CAS first learning about the ABCDE bi

Moreland Term 2 Week 7
G'day everyone! This week we went on our very last camp of the program. We picked the students up from Collingwood Station and then went back to CAS to pack the rest of the gear and have a discussion about the camp and what to expect. We asked the students to think about an individual character strength goal they would like to focus on for this camp and we relayed the expectations, given they are assessed on areas such as self-organisation, team work, leadership, participatio

Moreland Term 2 Week 6
Hi there everyone! On Wednesday we had an amazing young rapper named Charlie meet us at the Glenroy Community hub and he ran a hip hop workshop with the young people. The community hub has incredible recording facilities and we were lucky to also receive help from Steve from the Youth Space. Charlie introduced us to the fundamentals of hip hop and rap and then showed us how to structure a rap using the 4 beats/4 bars method. The students were encouraged to get creative and de