Specialist Programs
Physical Education Program
The Physical Education Program caters for students of all ages and abilities.
Students can expect to participate in activities designed to:
Develop and consolidate Fundamental Motor Skills
Explore spatial awareness, rotation, balance and locomotion
Improve overall fitness levels
Encourage fair play, teamwork and allow for leadership opportunities and
Teach the skills and rules associated with different sports and minor games.
Some of the features of the program are the Gymnastics Unit, Perceptual Motor Program, Jump Rope for Heart, Athletics Unit, Friday Sports Program and whole school sports mornings including ‘Footy Day’, Special School’s Swimming, X-Country and Athletics Carnivals. Students can get involved in several performance-based activities, including the Main Campus ‘Rope Rocketeers’ skipping team or the Senior Campus ‘Vaulting Heartz’ team. Both teams visit local schools to perform a variety of routines. The Aero-base team competes in competitions throughout the year, and won the State Championship in 2018.
Marnebek has an abundance of Physical Education equipment, allowing us to provide a challenging, stimulating and varying program for all students.
Visual Arts
Visual Arts is a weekly hour-long session. Students explore the art elements of colour, shape, line, form, texture, space, tone and value through a variety of two-dimensional and three-dimensional activities. In addition, principles of design such as pattern & repetition, contrast, emphasis, proportion, variety, balance, rhythm & movement, and harmony & unity are informally discussed and attempted in artworks.
All students create a visual art diary to provide ongoing visual records of the processes, designs, photos and reflections of their art journey.
To complement the Visual Arts Program, Art Club is offered once a week during lunchtime for interested artists.
Performing Arts
In Performing Arts, students have the opportunity to express themselves creatively via drama, dance, music, games and song.
Outside structured classroom lessons, there are numerous other opportunities for Marnebek students to participate in the performing arts. These include:
The all-school concert, held annually in Term Three. Each class performs an item.
The Southern Special Schools’ Music Festival. The festival showcases the dance talents of numerous special schools in our region and alternates each year between junior and senior students. Selected classes are chosen to perform.
Guitar lessons
Rock Band
Performances for peers and younger students
Performing Arts lunchtime activities
Excursions and incursions
Food Technology
Marnebek offers an engaging life skills study program. Over one semester, students from Prep to Year 8 participate in weekly Food Technology lessons. These lessons aim to engage and challenge each student to learn new skills and develop knowledge that will contribute to their ongoing learning and independence in the kitchen. Students prepare and cook food items from all around the world, an activity they all love largely due to the ‘hands-on’ approach to learning.
Students learn skills such as safe use of equipment and how to follow procedures. Each student has their own recipe book, complete with visuals to ensure all students are actively involved in the cooking process. We encourage students to take their recipe books home at the end of the semester to practise with their family.
Throughout the year, students explore topics such as hygiene in the kitchen, nutritional value of food items, food cultural influence and catering and servicing within the industry, gathering information from a variety of sources.
Our goal is to develop our students’ confidence in the kitchen to where they can prepare and produce food independently or with minimal supervision. These skills may assist students in the future, should they seek employment in the hospitality industry. We endeavour to make our life skills program cross-curricular, incorporating literacy, numeracy, ICT and inquiry activities.
