OKKA WIKKA       Day Structure Proposal: for 150 students

 

Morning Session: Grade 6 & 7 Peer tutor training   30 students

Here we will teach them some basic patterns to teach the rest of the school:

Headband and 2 types of fish in coconut leaf + string from banana fibre + anything else we have time for.

 

Mid Morning Break

 

Until Lunch: Grade 5 & 4 & 3     30 peer tutors + 60 students

We divide these classes into small cluster groups and place 2-3 tutors to each group depending on the class size.

Stuart conducts the main lesson for everyone and then the tutors take on their own group and teach them.

Stuart and I circulate with the help of teachers and their teacher’s aides keeping an eye on the tutors and helping the students who need individual assistance.

 

Lunchtime Break

 

Afternoon Session: Grade 2 & 1 & preschool   30 peer tutors + 60 students

The same cluster groups created with 2-3 tutors to a cluster.

We teach a very simple fish and make a simple headband with coconut leaf

 

Peer Tutors

The 30 students from Grade 6&7 stay on with us all day as the peer tutors in small groups. The ratio of teaching tutors to a group depends on how many students in the class altogether. We usually put 2 -3 tutors to a cluster of 10 students. Using Peer teaching we effectively reach 120 students

 

Access and Site

We will arrive after 8am and we prefer to work in an open under cover area sitting on our ground mats

It’s great if the car can come through a gate to access the area where we can unload and prepare the fibre.

 

Outcomes

Each student walks away with their own string bangles, headbands, woven coconut leaf patterns etc

These patterns represent primary kinaesthetic building blocks of simple form; hence powerful left right brain exercises  

 

 

Day Structure Proposal: for 60 students

 

Morning Session 30 /40 minutes: Grade 6 & 7 Peer tutor training   15 students.      Here we will teach them some basic patterns to teach the rest of the school:

For the rest of the morning bring in the rest of the School

Headband and 2 types of fish in coconut leaf + string from banana fibre + anything else we have time for.

 

Mid Morning Break

 

Until Lunch: 15 peer tutors + 45 students

Headband and 2 types of fish in coconut leaf + string from banana fibre + anything else we have time for.

 

Lunchtime Break

 

Afternoon Session:

Weaving  & “World’s Smallest Kite”

 

Okka Wikka                                  

ABN: 17792687237

Stuart and Catherine Campbell-Lloyd                                

PO Mena Creek 4871

07 40655182

info@okkawikka.com

www.okkawikka.com

 September 2009                               Mission Statement “Our Crafts are National Living Treasures”