Core Skills Analysis
English
Arrie created a birthday card for her grandfather, Papa, and worked collaboratively with the support worker and her mother to complete it. She practised communicating ideas, participating in a shared writing or design task, and using language for a meaningful audience. Arrie also communicated preferences during play and appropriately stated when it was time for the support worker to leave. These experiences supported practical communication, audience awareness, and expressive language.
Mathematics
Arrie played a board game while the support worker read and explained the instructions. Through this activity, she practised listening to rules, following sequences, taking turns, and responding to game situations. Although no specific calculations were recorded, board-game participation provided opportunities for logical thinking, decision-making, and understanding order. Arrie also demonstrated independence by choosing activities and moving between them.
Science
Arrie engaged in physical activity by jumping on a trampoline and observed school children through the window during a break. These experiences encouraged attention to movement, observation, and changes in her immediate environment. She also used digital devices to create edits and play online, giving her practical experience interacting with technology. The activity showed curiosity and active engagement across physical and digital environments.
Humanities and Social Sciences
Arrie participated in family and community-related experiences by making a birthday card for her grandfather and observing people outside near the school setting. She also played Roblox with a friend and invited the support worker to join, demonstrating participation in social relationships and shared activities. These experiences helped her practise belonging, connection, cooperation, and making choices within everyday community and family life.
Tips
Tips: Extend Arrie’s learning by helping her plan and write a short message for another family member, then discuss how the wording changes for different audiences. Use a simple board-game score sheet to practise counting, comparing scores, and explaining strategies. Invite her to design a paper or digital collage showing the different activities in her session and narrate the sequence using first, next, and finally. During a future game or trampoline activity, encourage her to identify one feeling, choice, or break she needs and practise communicating it clearly.
Book Recommendations
- Bluey: Hooray It's a Birthday! by Penguin Random House Australia: A familiar Bluey story connecting with birthdays, family celebration, and shared experiences.
- The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires: A story about creativity, persistence, frustration, and taking breaks while making something.
- The Social Skills Picture Book for Kids by Jed Baker: An illustrated resource with practical scenarios for communication, boundaries, cooperation, and social participation.
Learning Standards
- English – AC9E3LY01: Arrie planned and created a meaningful card and communicated preferences during collaborative activities, connecting with creating and editing texts for a purpose.
- English – AC9E6LY01: Her invitations, choices, and clear statement about the session ending reflected developing spoken interaction skills.
- Mathematics – AC9M6N05: The board game provided an age-relevant context for following procedures, making decisions, and potentially applying counting or score-based problem solving, although specific calculations were not recorded.
- Science – AC9SPS01: Trampoline activity and observation supported noticing movement and changes in the environment.
- HASS – WAHASS31: Family, school-community observation, and shared decision-making connected with awareness of people and community participation; the activity did not specifically address local government.
Try This Next
- Create a session-sequence worksheet with boxes for: first, next, after that, and finally; Arrie can draw or label each activity.
- Make a board-game reflection card: What was the rule? How did I take turns? What choice did I make?
- Design a digital or paper birthday-card template with spaces for a greeting, message, picture, and sign-off.
- Write or record a short prompt: “I chose…, I enjoyed…, and I needed a break when…”