Core Program
The Worawa holistic model of learning incorporates all activities and relationships that are experienced at Worawa – teaching, pastoral care and co-curricular. The core purpose of the Worawa model is the growth and development of the student across all dimensions and within Aboriginal Culture.
Students are grouped according to their developmental stage – across all dimensions of their development – social, emotional, physical, spiritual, and cognitive (academic.) Learning activities are stage appropriate with differentiation of the curriculum to cater for the individual learning needs of the student.
The Worawa curriculum is implemented through units of work developed in a model of learning designed to deliver “rigorous” understanding of concepts, development of skills and knowledge.
The Worawa curriculum has been designed to educate the whole person across all domains of their development—social, emotional, physical, spiritual, cultural and cognitive/academic.
Worawa curriculum is developed and implemented within cultural themes and five LEARNING CENTRES:
- literacy
- creative arts
- numeracy / maths
- science and environment
- health/ sport/ physical education
Learning Centre curriculum has been designed to build and enhance individual student learning outcomes by:
- Building core skills, knowledge and understanding
- emphasising respect, relationships, responsibility and rigour
- providing greater autonomy in learning particularly through Personalised Learning Plans
- improving problem solving skills through collaborative learning tasks and in the completion of independent challenges
- developing creativity and self expression
- fostering self-confidence in contributing to discussion and group work
- making vocational and tertiary links
The College theme CARING FOR COUNTRY and the associated Term Themes provide links between Learning Centre activities. Each term, within each Learning Centre, students are provided with a challenging and stimulating unit of work which is designed to deliver essential standards as outlined in the Victorian Essential Learnings Standards (VELS).
Units of work are planned as a whole school learning pathway (on a two year cycle) and include both discrete discipline units and integrated units.
Personalised Learner Profiles (PLP) are developed and travel with the student as they progress along the Worawa learning continuum.
PLP’s provide a focus on learning to learn, the purpose of learning and record student success in learning.