Year 9 Child Studies Antenatal Incursion

A better start to life creates a better future for the child. As such the significance of the Child Studies course enables young people of St Andrews College to understand the interrelated factors that influence the early years. The learning that happens in this course empowers students to impact the next generation of successful, creative and confident learners and citizens in our community. To support this important learning, members of Mrs Borg’s Year 9 Child Studies class had the opportunity to welcome a guest speaker from NSW Health to their class. During the visit Mrs Tara Greczek shared her real life experience working as a midwife and her professional knowledge about the stages of pregnancy. 

Student feedback from the day included:

My classmates and I had the opportunity to speak with Tara, a midwife, on Tuesday. We were given the chance to learn about labor and to ask questions about it. I learned a lot of things that I didn't know previously, such as assisted instrumental birth and cesarean delivery. I'm grateful that I was told about these things that I'll need for careers and jobs I’m looking into. This topic surprised, amazed, and piqued my interest because there was so much to learn about giving birth, and there was so much more to labor than just delivering a baby. This has greatly aided my understanding of the topic of birth perception, and I am looking forward to participating in further incursions and excursions as part of this new subject at St. Andrews College.

- Patricia Tuazon 

Today for class we were able to learn through a lot of demonstrations, real life experiences and Q&A in guidance by Tara the midwife. She professionally explained and demonstrated the stage of birth and types of delivery options as well as factors which affected birth. Props were used to enhance our understanding of child birth and how complications in birth are dealt with. Her being in this field of labor care allowed her to use her experiences at work as well as personal experiences as a mother to answer and educate us more. We appreciated the incursion as we took a lot from it and iof was a very memorable experience. We look forward to future child studies incursion and excursions.

- Akshita and Ella 

A massive thank you needs to be extended to Mrs Borg for the many hours of hard work that went in to design this learning experience for the Child Studies students without her initiative none of this would have been possible. I would also like to acknowledge Mrs Tara Greczek is a former student of St Andrews College and offer my gratitude for giving up her time and coming back to St Andrews to share her valuable insights with students of our College.    

Mr Nathan Weaver

Leader of Learning 7 - 10 PDHPE