CLP Resources

It is recommended that Home School Liaison Teachers visit the following websites:

The intention is that they are to be accessed by liaisons in order to create realistic, manageable student owned CLP projects - the ruMAD site has the 8 keys to madness which is of particular help. In order to access the 8 keys to madness, teachers or facilitators need to register and then access TOOLKIT.
Community Learning Projects
CLP Projects - Term 4, 2009 Print E-mail

Mortlake College
The big picture is to design and build a BBQ area complete with built-in BBQ for our school. We are hoping that this will benefit our school and local community by creating a space and means for various fundraisers to be organised. It will also be a great place for school lunches at Mortlake College. To involve not just the school community we decided we will also hold fundraising events for the local clubs, e.g. The money from our open day will go to The Abbeyfield House (aged care home) as they are trying to raise money for building a new wing.

Fitzroy High School
We want to install a rain garden at our school so less storm water is going into Merri Creek. We also hope that some of these ideas are then utilised in peoples own homes.

Melbourne Girls College
– to break down barriers held between adolescents and parents. To build and create ties that bring families together. To achieve this goal we are preparing an evening seminar focussed on workshopping common trust issues between adolescent and parents.

Melbourne High School (Two CLP teams) –
MHS 1
- plan to help prepare Warburton Valley for the bushfire season by raising awareness and checking with the CFA and SES about what we can do to help. AS a backup plan we wish to help fundraise or prepare for the aftermath if a bushfire did indeed strike.
MHS 2
- We are going to explore the ideas of water health and lack of food under the main heading of World Poverty by creating an organisation that will ultimately attempt to galvanise communities to help themselves and other impoverished communities. We will raise awareness about poverty through a variety of forms of media.
From this point we hope to find sponsorship and backing for our organisation, and then raise awareness in more potent forms; by running trips and expeditions to educate world communities, starting with Australia.
Once we have made an impact, hopefully we will have created a movement and legacy that will be heard in as many corners of the globe as possible.

Warrnambool College
– our two ideas so far are to help our students (mainly Year 4) participate in recreational and healthy living activities through older students that will be mentors; or to develop a bushfire awareness program through knowledge of the history of the Framlingham bushfires.

Barwon South West Region
– our project will allow all of us to take something back to our schools. We will make a booklet about our journey here incorporating an indigenous mural that we will create at Gnurad Gundidj. The booklet will have tips for preparing for, and coping with, an extended stay away from home.

Matthew Flinders Girls Secondary College
– we are going to write proposals to Vic Roads and the local council to change the speed limit around our multi campus school so that all day the speed limit is lower, hence, safer. We want to include better signage, lower speed limit and greater public awareness.
 
CLPs ... An overview Print E-mail

All school teams are selected to the School for Student Learning based on, amongst other things, a project related to their home communities.

Community Learning Projects (CLP) are chosen for their valuable contribution to the communities to which students belong. They address real and pertinent issues such as environmental concerns, social injustice, community safety, positive youth engagement and the like.

If youth are to be valued they must be participants of the society to which they belong. They need to be given active roles in making decisions and improving their communities. Community Learning Projects allow students to choose issues which they are passionate about and which the community values. They place students in an adult role and give them adult responsibilities and thereby assist in this transition from childhood to adulthood.

Community Learning Projects may be proposed by students or be an existing project. Students spend time in the first few weeks planning their project and doing any preliminary work to get these under way. The latter half of their time at Gnurad-Gundidj Campus is devoted more intensively to completing these.

Students are expected to have the planning and promotion of their project completed on leaving the Gnurad-Gundidj Campus but may not practically implement this project until they return to their communities. The implementation phase of their projects is often undertaken once they return and may involve the rest of their home school community or year level. Students are required to develop a comprehensive action plan prior to leaving Gnurad-Gundidj Campus.

A major focus for projects is on the process and students are required to regularly reflect on this and plan to implement necessary changes.

Example Projects

Students and teachers can view past examples of CLP projects completed by school teams attending Schools for Student Leadership campuses at the following links: