Thrive day program
Activities At Thrive
Present real-world experiences and allow participants to constructively explore and ask questions in a safe, encouraging environment.
Activities
Community Experiences
Present real-world experiences and allow participants to constructively explore and ask questions in a safe, encouraging environment.
Our community activities include:
Cultural Events Shows and Festivals
To provide participants with various opportunities to be exposed to different cultural experiences. To explore tasting different cultural foods.
Going to community festivals/markets, Islamic festivals, Chinese New Year festivals, Hindu festivals and food festivals
Going to community festivals/markets, Islamic festivals, Chinese New Year festivals, Hindu festivals and food festivals
Budgeting Skills
To use shopping experiences to provide participants with basic money management skills and daily living skills.
Going to local supermarket, purchasing foods and other necessities. Going to local grocery shops, butchers and seafood market to purchase groceries. Going to departments stores such Bunnings, kmart, officeworks, petbarn, and spotlight.
Going to local supermarket, purchasing foods and other necessities. Going to local grocery shops, butchers and seafood market to purchase groceries. Going to departments stores such Bunnings, kmart, officeworks, petbarn, and spotlight.
Bowling
To provide participants with opportunities to participate in physical activity experiences and improving general health and wellbeing.
Going to bowling clubs, soccer grounds, football fields, basketball/netball courts, cricket grounds
Going to bowling clubs, soccer grounds, football fields, basketball/netball courts, cricket grounds
Bush Walks
Zoo and Farm Visits
To provide enhanced mental well-being experiences and social inclusion.
Calmsley hill city farm, Sydney Zoo, Mt Annan Botanical gardens
Calmsley hill city farm, Sydney Zoo, Mt Annan Botanical gardens
Public Transport Training
To build safety awareness around public transport
Role play between support workers and participants before excursions and community visits
Role play between support workers and participants before excursions and community visits
Eating Out
To use experiences to provide participants with basic social interactions skills, confidence in ordering, purchasing and applying correct social cues. To explore tasting different cultural foods. Ordering from menus, being confident in personal choices, paying the bill. To know how to pay. To gain expressive and receptive communication social skills. To gain social skills when engaging with other people. To enhance life skills when faced with social experiences that may be triggering. To practice sensory and regulation.
Going to local cafes and restaurants.
Going to local cafes and restaurants.
Building Social Skills in the Community
To build capacity during outdoor activities in order make new connections and participate in social activities. To develop motor skills during outdoor activities in group settings. To participate in sensory experiences such as sight, smell and touch.
Wetherill Park nature reserve Emerson street reserve Treetop adventure park Greystanes aqueduct Lizard log park Plough and harrow park
Wetherill Park nature reserve Emerson street reserve Treetop adventure park Greystanes aqueduct Lizard log park Plough and harrow park
Movies
To provide participants with various opportunities to be exposed to different cultural, educational and sensory experiences.
Attending sporting events such as football games, soccer games, bowling games, netball and basketball games as spectators.
Attending sporting events such as football games, soccer games, bowling games, netball and basketball games as spectators.
Activity
Arts
To provide participants with various opportunities to be exposed to different cultural, educational and sensory experiences.
Description
Fairfield city library Whetherill park branch library Powerhouse muesums Museum of contemporary art Australia Bundanoon art museum and bridge Australian national maritime museum Powerhouse museum Australian museum Sydney living museum Museum discovery centre Rock discovery museum NSW rail museumActivities
Facility Based Activities
To build capacity by improving life skills around the home and centre. To improve physical and mental well-being through a variety of facility-based activities.
Our community activities include:
Cooking
To encourage creativity, improves mood, reduces stress and anxiety levels, enhances problem solving skills, improves social and communication skills, to improve general life skills.
Basic food preparation, baking, cake decorating, food safety lessons, following basic recipes, making simple meals e.g. sandwich, fruit salads etc., understanding how to use potential equipment, general cleanliness and food hygiene, cross contamination
Basic food preparation, baking, cake decorating, food safety lessons, following basic recipes, making simple meals e.g. sandwich, fruit salads etc., understanding how to use potential equipment, general cleanliness and food hygiene, cross contamination
Arts and Crafts
Jewellery design, painting and drawing, scrapbooking, colouring in, knitting,
https://www.northshoremums.com.au/
https://www.twinkl.com.au/
https://www.teachthis.com.au/
https://alphabettree.com.au/
https://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/p/home
https://www.abc.net.au/education/#!/home
https://www.education.com/
https://www.weareteachers.com/online-art-resources/
https://www.pinterest.com/
https://www.theottoolbox.com/fine-motor-skills/
Gardening
To teach participants to care for plants and take responsibility, increase self-confidence by achieving goals, to bid self-esteem, improve mood concentration, improves social and communication skills
Centre herbs wall, portable seedlings, caring for indoor plants, learning how to use watering cans and purpose of soil
Centre herbs wall, portable seedlings, caring for indoor plants, learning how to use watering cans and purpose of soil
Movies
Increases communication skills, reduces stress, anxiety and depression, improves mood and provides entertainment.
Watching a variety of appropriate programs and movies that are entertaining and educational
Watching a variety of appropriate programs and movies that are entertaining and educational
Laundry
Sensory Activites
To provide participants with various opportunities to be exposed to different cultural, educational and sensory experiences.
Washing dishes, using dishwasher, using washing machine, dryer, vacuuming, dusting, activities that require them to pack away after themselves, wiping down surfaces, identifying untidy and tidy environments with support worker
Washing dishes, using dishwasher, using washing machine, dryer, vacuuming, dusting, activities that require them to pack away after themselves, wiping down surfaces, identifying untidy and tidy environments with support worker
Computer Training
Music
To help participants to express emotions, increase cognitive function and improve mental health. Strengthens learning and memory.
Using speakers, microphones, karaoke machines, listening to radio, watching music videos an YouTube, planning performances, learning lyrics
Using speakers, microphones, karaoke machines, listening to radio, watching music videos an YouTube, planning performances, learning lyrics
Building Social Skills
Budgeting Skills
Therapies
Participants can utilise the education room to arrange a therapy to take place at the Day Program, please contact to explore this opiton.
Activity
Safety Guidance for Community
Objectives
To build safety awareness around public transportDescription
Role play between support workers and participants before excursions and community visitsActivity
Photography
Objectives
To improve mood and joy, to build creativity and spatial awareness, to increase motivation for outdoor activities. To encourage self-expression.Description
Learning to use cameras, polaroids, phones, iPad, appropriate use of cameras, consensual use of cameras and photos, art display of photographs, photographs of outings/nature, collages, photobooks for centre and to take home.Activities
Learning and development
To enable participants to understand, appreciate, reflect on and enjoy a variety of literacy and numeracy activities and to make meaning in ways that are imaginative, creative, interpretive, critical and powerful.
Communication and problem solving skills
To build language development, enhance listening skills, improve social development skills, enhance general confidence, increase social interaction, improves cognitive function
Drama plays, role play and play based activities
Drama plays, role play and play based activities
Numeracy Skills
Develops numeracy skills to help empower them to become inclusive community members, increases intelligence and vocabulary, prevents cognitive decline, improves imaginative skills, improves mood and general knowledge
Role play based activities such as shopping, café and restaurants, hairdresser, nail shops, board games, cut and paste, arts and craft, physical activity games, money management activities
Role play based activities such as shopping, café and restaurants, hairdresser, nail shops, board games, cut and paste, arts and craft, physical activity games, money management activities
Relationship Building
To make new friends and to improve communication with family through language development, improve social development skills, enhance general confidence, increase social interaction.
Team based and pair based activities such as board games, group exercise activities, arts and crafts e.g. Mother’s Day cards, gardening
Team based and pair based activities such as board games, group exercise activities, arts and crafts e.g. Mother’s Day cards, gardening
Money Management
Develops life skills to help empower them to become inclusive community members.
Going to local supermarket, purchasing foods and other necessities. Going to local grocery shops, butchers and seafood market to purchase groceries. Going to departments stores such Bunnings, kmart, officeworks, petbarn, and spotlight. Participating in role play based centre activities such as imaginative play experiences eg shopping
Going to local supermarket, purchasing foods and other necessities. Going to local grocery shops, butchers and seafood market to purchase groceries. Going to departments stores such Bunnings, kmart, officeworks, petbarn, and spotlight. Participating in role play based centre activities such as imaginative play experiences eg shopping
Sensory Activities
To improve mood and concentration, reduce stress, to stimulate the brain and to improve teamwork abilities, develop fine and gross motor skills, reduce anxiety and depression
Use of sensory room, tuff table, kinetic sand, slime making, bubbles, play dough, sensory lights, lava lamps, Soft music, smell based activities, diffusers, projector, sensory board, ball pits, bean bags, different seating pods, different texture mats
Use of sensory room, tuff table, kinetic sand, slime making, bubbles, play dough, sensory lights, lava lamps, Soft music, smell based activities, diffusers, projector, sensory board, ball pits, bean bags, different seating pods, different texture mats
Activities
Health and Fitness
To improve mood and concentration, reduce stress, to stimulate the brain and to improve teamwork abilities, develop fine and gross motor skills, reduce anxiety and depression
Yoga and Relaxation Classes
To improve health and fitness skills, reduce stress, anxiety and depression, develop gross and fine motor skills
Through YouTube tutorials, external trainers to occasionally run classes.
Through YouTube tutorials, external trainers to occasionally run classes.
Dance Classes
To improve health and fitness skills, reduce stress, anxiety and depression, develop gross and fine motor skills
Through YouTube tutorials, external trainers to occasionally run classes, Zumba classes
Through YouTube tutorials, external trainers to occasionally run classes, Zumba classes
Nutrition Classes
To encourage better eating habits and enable them to make healthy food choices
Gerald the giraffe incursions, nutrition food classes, arts and crafts classes, basic food group activities, role play activities, Diabetes prevention talks, Prevention tips for diabetes, heart disease and osteoporosis
Gerald the giraffe incursions, nutrition food classes, arts and crafts classes, basic food group activities, role play activities, Diabetes prevention talks, Prevention tips for diabetes, heart disease and osteoporosis
Falls Prevention Tips
To prevent injury and falls and build awareness of potential hazards
Use role play based activities, run safety classes, external educators to run classes
Use role play based activities, run safety classes, external educators to run classes
Sports and Fitness Lessons
To demonstrate an understanding of movement skills, concepts and strategies to respond confidently and creatively in a variety of physical activity contexts. To improve mood and have fun.
Outdoor sports, indoor sports eg soccer, basketball, circuit games, ball based sports, equipment based sports, team based sports, gross and motor games, body movement games, dance classes, locomotor based games e.g. bending, twisting, reaching, object control
Outdoor sports, indoor sports eg soccer, basketball, circuit games, ball based sports, equipment based sports, team based sports, gross and motor games, body movement games, dance classes, locomotor based games e.g. bending, twisting, reaching, object control
