Start Jan 28th 2025. Entry age 15+
Start Jan 28th 2025. Entry age 15+
Young people at risk of dropout can be safely held in school with Aerie College Adventure challenge learning, cared for and returned to positive living and learning by Aerie College's skilled young teachers and elders.
Distressed, depressed, older teens will benefit from complete change
to change their behavior and thoughts. A change of school, and sometimes from family home, to a residential college can give them the time needed for their change from angry or depressed child to competent, good living adult. Aerie residential college provides different learning, new thinking, a safe home, good food and adventure challenge learning spaces.
Aerie College provides safe shelter for sleeping, good food, building new friendships, the help of experienced older teachers to guide them, and young teachers to reactivate the healthy adventure in them.
A complete change and mental reset is of great value to a young person.
Aerie provides the places, the teachers and "Time Out" for change that can satisfy their needs, AND the legal requirements to attend school to age 17.
The beautiful places we use encourages happy thoughts. Wellness and enthusiasm returns, and good learning can occur.
We use the SACE curriculum, the essentials,
and many good learning options selected with a progression of good living skills from both SACE levels.
All this leads into a further 3 years of Vocational Training to VET Diploma. Staying on with Aerie offers new learning adventures challenging them with mental and physical work including music to excite and hold the young traveler's interest and generate income. The older Aerie Students will become team leaders for the younger students as part of their outdoor adventure leadership skills training.
Does your child need change? Perhaps different subject selections to keep them in education? - - - Cut the Branch - - - CHANGE SCHOOL
At Aerie residential school, our total immersion learning targets are; wellness, confidence building, practical competencies and supportive friendship skills. When hitting those targets, anything is possible for the child. We offer total care in a small, friendly home school with family/team groups of target size 16, each managed by a Mentor/teacher couple. (The large family home group model.)
Aerie College provides total support for children who need "Time out" from their school or home. Sometimes this is important just to give everyone in the family a break, perhaps just time to cut the apron strings. Aerie Residential College relieves the busy family of grumpy teenager stress and provides the kids with a safe sleeping space, good food and understanding care. It holds them in education and helps them to find learning success, maintain wellness, and keeps them out of trouble. It sets them on a positive adventure path to a good future. We expect them to return to family as responsible young adults. We help them all to keep in touch.
Living together as partners and teams, all sharing the same swag sleeping spaces, is a skill not often taught. We believe these social skills of shared safe living and sleeping are an essential part of older teen learning. We teach and manage these skills throughout their time with Aerie. It is likely the lack of teaching these essential social and safe living skills is the cause of unwanted pregnancies, child and partner abuse, and family breakup.
The Aerie College change starts with "Time Out" a ten week river cruise school camp between Mannum and Renmark, designed to provide time away from their past life. They will carry no baggage except their immediate needs in their backpack and swag. Our discussion program will stimulate their thinking, with their young team leaders providing care, leadership and opportunities to chat of many things, with a few oldies willing to tag along and share the chat experience.
Aerie "Time out" is a one term "Come and try" river cruise.
Then a meeting with Aerie Principal for stay or leave decision.
Student: YES/NO - - - Family: YES/NO - - - Aerie Principal: YES/NO
Families will always be welcome at Aerie House, Mannum to talk about Aerie College expectations, the purpose of their first school term Time Out cruise and the benefits of the Aerie Learning approach for their child. At this meeting, families can decide to enroll their child in the Time Out cruise as a come and try. This program is presented as a school camp service. The child continues their required school attendance during the cruise.
After the "Time out" Cruise: Family and child meets with the principal for family conference. If the decision is Stay, they enroll in Aerie and purchase the essentials for living with Aerie teams, a set of suitable clothes, shoes, laptop computer, backpack and swag. Students are issued with their Aerie student ID card and a small Eagle pin to be displayed on their clothes at all times to identify them as Earie College students. There is no school uniform, only recommended fit for lifestyle clothing. They either wear their clothes or pack them in their Swag or backpack. Aerie students travel light.
The Aerie tribal learning-living lifestyle is followed throughout their time with Aerie College. They move camp with their team leader, according to their learning needs and interests. Changing teams is an option if needed.
Aerie Tribe will learn how to help AND they will help where they can.
Aerie essential safe living skills learning:- All Aerie students learn indoor and outdoor Cookery, Housekeeping skills and healthy living as part of their SACE studies They are all rostered to provide peer meal service and hospitality cleaning services in our shelter houses and spaces.
Aerie safe shelter spaces - safe houses:- swag sleeping is the Aerie student style in our members only sleeping spaces, in houses close to a business learning opportunity. All Aerie students share our sleeping spaces following the YHA accepted youth behavior standard. Aerie displays a Safe House sign.
Work teams and partners:- We create work teams and encourage close male/female partnerships for all living and learning tasks. We discuss likes and dislikes. Students learn how to take great care of each other to ensure everyone is safe, happy and well. We talk about good shared living, keeping clean, eating well, working and sleeping behaviors, and personal privacy when needed, asking and giving permission, providing personal help when asked and close living by the rules.
Making babies is outside of the rules at this time in their life. We talk about that. It is an adventure for later when the time is right.
Aerie student discipline:- Aerie teachers manage student behavior. If other college staff have student behavior matters to discuss they must chat with the group teacher. It is expected that all discipline matter will be resolved through discussion. (Teachers will keep private email notes of essential discussions with copy to main students records when appropriate. Teacher and Principal access only.)
Aerie College Emulates the White bellied Sea Eagle of the Lower Murray.
A Master of the Skies - excellent at education and caring for young.
The White-bellied Sea Eagle is a majestic bird of prey renowned for its powerful build and impressive wingspan. It is a coastal and river dweller, typically found near bodies of water. Several have made permanent nests high in the river redgums along the Murray River. These magnificent birds are at risk from environmental degradation of the food source and habitat. Aerie college will make special focus on conservation education and assistance to prevent further environmental degradation in the Murray Darling basin.
Diet and Hunting - for opportunities
In essence, the White-bellied Sea Eagle is a formidable predator adapted to a coastal lifestyle. Its ability to thrive in diverse environments, coupled with its impressive hunting skills, makes it a captivating species to observe.
Young people, Live like the Eagles and you will be OK.
This magnificent house overlooking Mary Anne reserve, Mannum, is built of solid poured concrete, totally fire proof and bomb proof. It is a 5 star, take your shoes off house, and we will keep it like that, a very different experience for our students. There are a large public lawns and wharf front reserve with parking for visitors opposite. Student motor vehicles are not permitted. Cycling is encouraged for student distance travelling, swags and backpacks are included if shifting camp. All Aerie Houses will have service vehicles if needed.
Aerie curriculum focus:- SACE Essentials, Maintaining safe partnerships, shared swag sleeping spaces, Hospitality, Cookery, Housekeeping, Music (Instruments & Choir), Know and be part of your Community, Adventure tour guiding (kayak, cycle, sites of interest.)
Aerie Living:- Presents high quality living and learning at minimum cost.
The ground floor has a small entrance foyer with shoe rack and school front office, providing secure entry and lift to upper floors. The rest of this floor is a very large enclosed open space with secure access, a large roller-door opening to the the reserve front with one bathroom, totally secure and soundproof when shut.
The first floor has stairs from ground to the large balcony. All doors from the balcony to the fours sleeping spaces are lockable self contained secure sleeping units with plenty of swag space. There is no access from this balcony to any other inside spaces or the top balcony. House master couple has one of the unit and the other three are for student teams swag sleeping all in together for team family safety. Sharing multi sex sleeping and ablutions space is part of essential safe adult skills learning. We work all students together as a family team of paired partnerships. This team model is established during the Time Out Cruise. Building safe partnership skills is one of our key learning areas. Any sign of violence or inappropriate behavior and the offending students are removed from the space for further discussion and possible goodbye.
There is secure internal access from this floor to the top floor.
The top floor is community living space, functions training, dining, lounge, and barbeque areas, and Principal's study.
Mary Anne Reserve, the wharf berth for Mundoo is behind Princess, and the the rowing club has a floating low level boat access for rowing boats, kayaks and dragon boats. We have membership of the rowing club. We use the river for kayaking, rowing and dragon boating.
"He who calls the tune, Pays the piper".
There is something wrong with the tune with a 24% dropout.
CHANGE to a different tune is needed.
We retired elder teachers know a very good tune that will help those children who are thinking about joining the 24% dropout. With our many years of teaching experience and managing adventures for young people, we can conduct a good tune well, and we have time in retired life to lead the pipers and direct the dancers.
Our parent charity, ANCOM on Murray Inc. has been working school camps for more than 40 years with no major injuries. We know the school camp learning model works for all children, in particular the visiting class teacher's problem children, both wild and timid. These are the ones who shine during the camps.
We use the school camp learning model as a safe residential school structure for older teens at risk of school dropout. From long experience. we see the visiting teacher's problem students, these are the potential older dropouts who will shine in the Aerie school camp style environment.
We have a 40 yr old registered environmental educational charity instrument, with a good school camp reputation, to play the tune with. We will grab some of the young graduate teachers and those who walked away from the existing schools, to help us play good music, school camp style.
Aerie houses are all "safe houses." We accept any child's call for help at any time, including the younger ones. When the stressed child is calm and in control of themselves, we make the necessary calls. If the decision is stay with Aerie, they hang out in Aerie House Mannum with staff and we arrange for them to join our teams and partner grouping at start of each term. Part of youth teams learning will be helping younger children in need of care and help. If we have younger ones in care they will attend the local community college.
We plan to establish and maintain living/learning SACE level teams of 16 students, with one or a couple of older team managers, outdoor teacher skilled, who will stay with their team for all subjects, team relocations and shared living supervision, the older brother/sister role. Each Aerie House will have youth/teacher skilled/qualified house managers in residence, the housekeeper and home skills teacher role .
ESB, and SAFA holds the key to helping these kids.
Once Aerie school is registered and marketable, our community charity can attract membership investment from family membership, corporate membership, service club donations and DGR gifts to pay out the SAFA loan over a reasonable time frame:-
We expect some families and Community Clubs will invest in a negotiable community membership Loan License to Occupy, as a continuing membership investment support once we get the school registered. We offer an option to own and occupy an Aerie space for a day or more in any of our houses or boats. Student and family license owners only pay for food and recurrent use of space costs.
($30,000 will own a license to occupy a sleeping space every day (annual occupancy) for so long as the child stays with the college. The child's capital remains intact for future use after graduation. The occupancy can be resold to an incoming student to recover the capital. This ownership V renting arrangement is common with university residences throughout the world. Loan Investment are in units of $100 and can be purchased progressively, less painful on cash flow. build up to $30,000 in 12 months, then take the capital with them when they leave college.)
The Aerie residential College for older teens uses school camp style learning and backpacker swag living skills to hold and motivate them to continue guided learning on their journey to adult.
The Aerie SACE-VET curriculum focus is on SACE essentials, and adventure tourism leadership, hospitality, cookery, care services and community participation. We keep costs as low as possible with backpack, swag camping, and peer service hospitality skills training in our homes.
Telephone, SMS, or WhatsAp to Capt. Bouc: 0418 836 137 Email Principal Bouc: bouc@aeriecollege.au
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