Our home school is Koo Wee Rup Secondary College. The school is located in South Gippsland in the Shire of Cardinia. We are around an hour’s drive from the city and it is sitting in a swamp area. We have five people attending the School for Student Leadership from Koo Wee Rup. The students are Alana Rodgers, Keegan Richardson, Cohen Tatnell, Lauren Bromiley and Amber Walker.

Some of the classes that have been engaging are when Beau Vernon came and talked to us about his three key values; optimism, resilience and that failing is okay. I think this class taught us a lot of things and gave us a different perspective on life. Another class that we thought was engaging would have to be surfing. This was because we learnt new skills and challenged ourselves in an area we haven’t had much experience in before.

Community Learning Project

For our Community Learning Project we plan to spend time at the elderly citizen’s center. We hope to talk to the residents about our experiences and do activities with them. We would also like to learn about what their lives were like back when they were our age. We plan to run three sessions with them and then we can work out if they want another class done. Some of the activities we hope to do with the residents are cooking, crafts and board games. Our vision is that by talking and interacting with the elderly we are able to bring our generations together. We have named it ‘Regeneration- bringing generations together’. The motto that we have come up with is ‘respect all generations!