Green Team

The Green Team is a boy's education initiative. It is designed for boys in year nine, aged fourteen to sixteen. These boys are considered to be at risk of leaving school early and have significant academic gaps, although their intellectual potential is well within the normal range.

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A technician wearing a cap and safety glasses focused on servicing and repairing an outboard boat motor inside a workshop.
The program aims to facilitate the success of students by identifying and fostering their individual skills, interests and career ambitions.
A group of students and an adult instructor in high-visibility work shirts walking across a lawn together outside a workshop building, holding tools and materials.
The Green Team is specifically designed to provide welfare support and relevant curriculum alternatives, while at the same time guiding these students towards completion of their School Certificate and community work placement.
A student wearing protective safety glasses using a cordless drill to assemble a metal frame onto an outdoor composite bench or table top.
Students will develop work-based competencies and be integrated into mainstream classes for the remainder of the week. The Green Team's aim is to identify and work with at risk students over the year.

Green Team Program - An educational skills initiative for students in Year 9

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The key operating principles to this program include the following:
  • Communication - Learning effective listening, writing and speaking skills.
  • Goal setting and time management- Teaching planning skills, effective time management and using different problem-solving techniques.
  • Career Pathways - matching and developing skills and interests to job profiles. Understanding different pathways, training and qualifications needed for occupations.
  • Self Image - Identifying personal motivations. Learning to deal with praise, criticism and advise in a positive manner.
  • Group Dynamics- Learning how to work effectively as part of a team. Looking at leadership.
  • Job Search- Learning where the jobs are, and how to successfully apply for.
  • Occupational Health and Safety- Recognising your rights and responsibilities under relevant acts. Developing safe working practice.
  • Work Place Literacy and Numeracy- Completing work related forms, basic workplace mathematical functions, workplace records.
  • Information Technology- Effective computer use, accessing information, using the telephone effectively, retrieving and printing data, transmitting and receiving information.
  • External Links -With TAFE colleges, work experience.

Green Team Accomplishments

A stone-lined outdoor yarning circle featuring a yellow wooden center cover, fresh eucalyptus branches, and a carved wooden coolamon.
Yarning Circle
A group of workers and students in high-vis gear collaborating to position and maneuver large sandstone blocks on a grassy site.
Starting the Yarning Circle
Members of the Evans River Green Team gathering with a wheelbarrow and tools along a forest trail, receiving instructions from an adult leader.

Starting Ngulingah Yaroon

Everyones track in Bandjalang

A wooden boardwalk winding through a dense paperbark forest, featuring several colorful, hand-painted artwork posts set along the path.

Ngulingah Yaroon

Everyones track in Bandjalang

A decorated wooden platform along a boardwalk in a paperbark forest, featuring a metal turtle sculpture and an artwork post painted with a fish.

Ngulingah Yaroon

Everyones track in Bandjalang

A wide view of a landscaped school garden area featuring a small wooden footbridge, native plants, and a covered walkway lined with painted lizard artwork panels.
Gardens
An adult instructor and a student kneeling on the ground to lay and align brick pavers on a sand base for a path or courtyard.
Paving outside the Learning Centre
Team members in high-vis work shirts crouching down to smooth out and level freshly poured concrete using hand floats.
Concreting at the Ag Farm
Students and supervisors wearing high-visibility "Evans River Green Team" shirts assembling a wooden cubby house or play structure using power tools outdoors.
Constructing the Cool Cubby in K-6 Playground

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