Activities At Thrive
Activities
Community Experiences
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Cultural Events Shows and Festivals
To provide participants with various opportunities to be exposed to different cultural experiences. To explore tasting different cultural foods.
Description
Going to community festivals/markets, Islamic festivals, Chinese New Year festivals, Hindu festivals and food festivalsActivity
Budgeting Skills
To use shopping experiences to provide participants with basic money management skills and daily living skills.
Description
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.Activity
Bowling
To provide participants with opportunities to participate in physical activity experiences and improving general health and wellbeing.
Description
Going to bowling clubs, soccer grounds, football fields, basketball/netball courts, cricket groundsActivity
Bush Walks
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Zoo and Farm Visits
To provide enhanced mental well-being experiences and social inclusion.
Description
Calmsley hill city farm, Sydney Zoo, Mt Annan Botanical gardensActivity
Public Transport Training
To build safety awareness around public transport
Description
Role play between support workers and participants before excursions and community visitsActivity
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.
Description
Going to local cafes and restaurants.Activity
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.
Description
Wetherill Park nature reserve Emerson street reserve Treetop adventure park Greystanes aqueduct Lizard log park Plough and harrow parkActivity
Movies
To provide participants with various opportunities to be exposed to different cultural, educational and sensory experiences.
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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.
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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
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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.
Description
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 contaminationActivity
Arts and crafts
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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/Activity
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
Description
Centre herbs wall, portable seedlings, caring for indoor plants, learning how to use watering cans and purpose of soilActivity
Movies
Increases communication skills, reduces stress, anxiety and depression, improves mood and provides entertainment.
Description
Watching a variety of appropriate programs and movies that are entertaining and educationalActivity
Laundry
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Sensory Activites
To provide participants with various opportunities to be exposed to different cultural, educational and sensory experiences.
Description
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 workerActivity
Computer Training
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Music
To help participants to express emotions, increase cognitive function and improve mental health. Strengthens learning and memory.
Description
Using speakers, microphones, karaoke machines, listening to radio, watching music videos an YouTube, planning performances, learning lyricsActivity
Building Social Skills
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Budgeting Skills
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Therapies
Participants can utilise the education room to arrange a therapy to take place at the Day Program, please contact to explore this opiton.
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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
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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
Description
Drama plays, role play and play based activitiesActivity
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
Description
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 activitiesActivity
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.
Description
Team based and pair based activities such as board games, group exercise activities, arts and crafts e.g. Mother’s Day cards, gardeningActivity
Money management
Develops life skills to help empower them to become inclusive community members.
Description
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 shoppingActivity
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
Description
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 matsActivities
Health and Fitness
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Yoga and relaxation classes
To improve health and fitness skills, reduce stress, anxiety and depression, develop gross and fine motor skills
Description
Through YouTube tutorials, external trainers to occasionally run classes.Activity
Dance classes
To improve health and fitness skills, reduce stress, anxiety and depression, develop gross and fine motor skills
Description
Through YouTube tutorials, external trainers to occasionally run classes, Zumba classesActivity
Nutrition classes
To encourage better eating habits and enable them to make healthy food choices
Description
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 osteoporosisActivity
Falls prevention tips
To prevent injury and falls and build awareness of potential hazards
Description
Use role play based activities, run safety classes, external educators to run classesActivity
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.
