Dec
2011
MEGT Institute visit Sydney Children’s Hospital
- Keira from MEGT Marketing, Jenny from the Children’s Hospital and Carmel from MEGT Children’s Services
MEGT Institute staff members Carmel and Keira visited Sydney’s Children’s Hospital on Tuesday to give gifts to the children for Christmas. Every Christmas is an extremely hard time for families in hospital and often they don’t have the money to provide gifts for their children. MEGT Institute initiated asking staff members to donate to this worthy cause by purchasing a gift for a child at the Sydney Children’s Hospital.
- Keira from MEGT Marketing, Jenny from the Children’s Hospital and Carmel from MEGT Children’s Services
MEGT Institute’s initiative was very well received by staff members with a full load of toys being delivered to the Hospital. Carmel and Keira met with Jenny the Community Services Manager for the Sydney Children’s Hospital who graciously accepted our gifts for all the sick children. It was an eye opening experience and a project MEGT Institute hopes to continue in the future. If you’d like to give a gift to the children it is not too late, contact the hospital directly to organise a time to drop off your gifts. Every toy counts and a little gift can make a world of difference to the children and their families!
No commentsJul
2011
Orientation Session
On July 4th 2011, the MEGT Institute team welcomed the new intake to the Term 3 “O” Week Program
consisted of three days being:
Monday: Orientation Session
Tuesday and Wednesday: Employable skills courses such as RSA, RGC, First Aid and Anaphylaxis
Day one (Monday) was planned to provide the new students with a feel of the “campus way of life” through an interactive Orientation Session.
The day started early where they received a warm welcome from Tony Patterson – Campus Manager followed by a “meet and greet”
introduction to each member of the MEGT administrative, academic and marketing team.
Following the staff members introduction, the new students were able to get to know a bit more about the MEGT Student Council.
Represented by Patricia Nathan, they were talked through the Student Council vision, mission and values.
Upon returning from the morning break, the students were invited to play an ice breaker where they had to introduce themselves
and perform timed tasks such as going to reception and bringing the Campus Manager to the room to recite a funny poem together!
Services available for students, campus facilities and Policies and Procedures sessions were delivered throughout the day by Luci Vicente – Students Services Officer.
After a well deserved lunch break, the students were divided into two teams and surprised by the announcement of a fun team building “Policies and Procedures Quiz Session” where the winner team would be presented by a mystery prize.
The quiz session was interactive and educational; the students demonstrated commitment and team work to answer the questions and both teams had close results but unfortunately only one could be the winner of a $20 academic voucher.
To conclude the Orientation Session, the students were then divided into two faculty groups:
The Business & Hospitality group; represented by the Academic Program Coordinator Marike Janavicus and the Children Services group; represented by the Work Placement Coordinator Carmel Williams.
During the academic breakdown the students were able to know a bit more about their course of choice and each student received a complimentary Starter Pack consisting of one pencil case, one MEGT personalised hoddie which will definitely be very useful during Sydney’s chilli winter!
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Jun
2011
Market Stall – Advanced Diploma of Children Services
Monday 9/5/11. Ten students in the Advanced Diploma of Children Services class have worked together to present a Market Stall event as part of their class project.
Coordinated by Barbara Galati, the Market Stall Project aims to give the students the opportunity to learn about and take part in a “real” Market Stall event.
The students were divided into 3 groups and each group was given the hard work yet fun task of create, organise and present their own Child Care Centre Stall to promote to their fellow students and staff members of MEGT Institute.
Aiko Shiga, Eva Andilova, Hoon Sook Park, Hyo Jin Park, Julia Koefender, Laurene Okumu, Naomi Sato, Surapa Pookkarat, Tatyana Grinkevich and Wassana Udomsuk were all assessed in the unit “Provide leadership in community service delivery” which includes the demonstration of their knowledge of providing an effective leadership role while promoting community work and maintaining quality performance.
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“We enjoyed the process of this project. We had to prepare everything from the centre description, information, flyers etc. We then had to display the centre information to other students and staff members.
On the day, we felt very confident. Our activities and demonstrations went well and we understood what we were presenting, like in real life!
We received many positive feedbacks and we felt successful in this task!”
“We put a lot of planning and thought to this task before finalising this task. By the time we put all together, we knew that we were doing everything at our best knowledge! The process was really interesting, challenging and involving.
We had a great “feel” for the “team work” principles and how to share our ideas to make it happen.
Overall our presentation was effective and eye-catching.
We would like to thank our school (MEGT Institute) for this opportunity!”
Laurene, Milly and HoonSook’s testimonial:
“The day was really good and the feeling of becoming the Director, Supervisor and Room Leader was a great experience.
We put a lot of hard work in creating our Day Care Centre – Sunrise and making it real for one day.
Before the presentation day, we had to have regular catch ups, or better – meetings – to discuss strategies and the future implementation of Sunrise.
We understood well the concept of “team work” and the co-operation as well as the diligence in everything we do!
May
2011
Children Services Music class
At the end of Stage 1 in the Diploma of Children’s Services (early childhood education & care) students study the unit ‘Use music to enhance children’s experiences and development’ .
Part of the assessment task for this unit is to make a music resource kit for students to use with the young children during their Diploma practicum. The purpose of creating a music resource kit is to develop an understanding of the music concepts of beat, tempo, rhythm, pitch & dynamics through singing, dancing, playing percussion instruments and listening to music.
During our music class we make drums with various sized terracotta clays pots & eight layers of brown papier-mâché. These drums create a very rich sound to use to accompany songs, music, dances & other instruments.
Here are some fabulous examples of the beautiful resources the Diploma students made in Term 1 2011 to share with the children and enhance their development & their music experiences. The students make other resources such as movement flash card, tapping sticks, wrist bells, maracas, ribbon sticks which are presented in a aesthetically pleasing container.
A great resource to share the universal language of music!
Sep
2010
MEGT Institute Sydney Children Services – Trainer’s Day
While the students at Sydney Campus are on term break, the team took advantage of this time to enhance their knowledge and improve their skills by attending professional development sessions.
Last week the Children’s Services team took part in a professional development workshop about the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF). The session was delivered by Carolyn McGuinness from Children’s Services Central on site at our Sydney campus.
As trainers we will be incorporating EYLF into all the units from the CHC08 training packages to our students. The students will be working with the EYLF to link it to their observations of children when on practicum and then planning appropriate learning experiences for the children in their care.
Thank you Carolyn for a fabulous workshop! ”
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Sep
2010
Expect-a-Star
- Katie Maxwell, representative from Expect-a-Star recruitment agency
A representative from Expect-a-Star recruitment agency, Katie Maxwell, did a great presentation for all MEGT Institute Sydney Campus’ Students in the Children’s Services department today. Katie gave our students valuable information on casual and permanent job opportunities in child care centres in the Sydney region (as well as Canberra, Perth and Brisbane).
The students gained knowledge on writing a resume, applying for a job, what to expect at an interview, the processes involved in gaining casual and permanent work, the support they will receive when working at a childcare centre and most importantly the pay rates!
All in all a fabulous session which was well attended by students and staff.
Special thank you to Adelaide Chan – International Marketing – for organising this presentation.
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