Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

Year 11 CAFS

Year 11 Community and Family Studies have been learning about personal management skills such as planning and organisation, communication, decision making and problem solving. Students learnt that communication can be verbal or non-verbal, aggressive, assertive or passive and that there are various characteristics that make communication effective.

Students were challenged to put their knowledge into practice by engaging in a back to back drawing activity. An image was placed on the TV screen and students had to describe to their partner as accurately and clearly as possible what they saw. This proved to be challenging, successful and funny.

We then explored the challenges that individuals are faced with when a message is sent and not received properly due to interruptions such as noise or not clearly understood, which is what resulted in some of our drawings looking nothing like the original stimulus.

Students were challenged to describe and communicate to their partner images of:

• A dancing hippo
• A dog doing yoga
• A rabbit driving a car full of Easter eggs

It was great to see the looks on their faces once they compared what they had drawn to the actual image!