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Dunlea Newsletter

The Dunlea unit has been ultra busy recently both in the day and residential programs. The unit theme is ‘Aspiring to Great Heights’. Some of the exciting activities have included day trips to centre point tower as part of geography, a visit to the Nan Tein Temple in Wollongong for a cultural experience where the boys took part in an origami session as well as a guided tour around the temple. Life skills involved the boys taking part in Friday morning Rock Climbing sessions at Arncliff Indoor Rock Climbing Centre. The boys certainly aspired to great heights with some boys taking several weeks before finally conquering the ‘leap of faith’!

The boys have also been ‘Aspiring to Great Heights’ in the classroom with a large focus on literacy and numeracy. This saw them tackling some tough and challenging subjects including poetry, social skills, map reading and PowerPoint presentations and research tasks. The boys should also be congratulated on completing the alphabet mural for the local kindergarten which both staff and boys worked tirelessly on. Well done Dunlea!

By embarking on a journey through the ‘cycle of life’, the boys explored life cycles of their chosen animals and took a trip to Fairfield City Farm where they learnt a whole heap of interesting facts about where our food comes from and how things work on the farm! This went hand in hand with our garden project. The boys have designed and built their very own veggie garden on site. After planting an array of herbs and veggies the unit is starting to reap the rewards of the hard yakka. The boys have been able to use a number of the gardens produce in their cooking both in food tech and in resi!

Food Tech this semester has been a journey around the world which has seen the boys cooking up a range of dishes from all around the world including Spanish, Thai, Italian, German, Chinese and Indian. The boys also enjoyed a cultural tour around Leichardt, the heart of Italian cooking.

Life skills saw the boys venturing out onto Cronulla beach with the surf school to work on their surf skills and gain some important advice about currents and safety in the water.

In residential the boys continued to focus on their living skills including managing the weekly budget for food and enhancing their domestic skills such as cooking, cleaning and washing of their clothes. The boys also enjoyed a stack of awesome activities including fishing, bike riding through the Royal, Go-Karting(probably the favourite), laser tag and body boarding.

The recent camp saw the boys enjoying themselves camping in tents at Lake Conjola, fishing in the lake & boating activities.