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2005 Showcase Awards for Excellence in Schools Submission Form ______________________________________________ Title of submission: BANCA RIDGE PROJECT School/s: STANTHORPE STATE HIGH SCHOOL District: WARWICK DISTRICT Area: SOUTH-WESTERN QUEENSLAND Key Contact Person: Name Trevor L. HICKS Phone number (07) 46 815 846 Mobile phone number via 0402 037 358 (Co-Contact. Ann Richardson). Email address thick1@eq.edu.au Please nominate ( or x) the Showcase category your project is to be entered into.

Showcase Award for Excellence in the Senior Phase of Learning

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia Showcase Award for Excellence in Leadership

The Courier- Mail Showcase Award for Excellence in Innovation

OPTIONAL multimedia items: If included, please nominate ( ) the file type PowerPoint presentation

Media Player file Signature/s of principal/s

______________________________________________________________ Date ________________ To be completed by the Executive Director (Schools) after completion of the checklist:

I support this submission and its entry in the Showcase Awards for Excellence in Schools 2005. This submission meets the requirements set out in the Executive Director’s Checklist. Signature of Executive Director (Schools) Date ________________________________ _________________

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1. - SUBMISSION OVERVIEW: The Banca Ridge Project is a partnership between Stanthorpe High and the Wine Tourism industry. It is built on the concept “An interest becomes a passion; a passion becomes a career”. With the support of local winery and tourism operators, students participate in real business activities centred on the first school-based commercial vineyard and winery in Queensland. Students build interest, knowledge, skills and qualifications to develop a career in the rapidly expanding Granite Belt and Queensland Wine and Tourism industries. 2. - DESCRIPTION: 2.1 Stanthorpe High in September 2001 secured a $30,000 EQ Strategic Initiatives

Grant to meet a request from the local Wine Tourism industry for - • The creation of direct training pathways for students. This would begin

with Certificate I and II training and be directed to a full range of careers within the Wine Tourism Industry.

• Training that is tailored to the specific needs of the wine tourism industry not only in the Granite Belt but which is transportable around the world.

• A means to combat the rural-urban drift of young people so detrimental to many small country towns.

The catchphrase of the project `an interest becomes a passion: a passion becomes a career’ encapsulates the project’s objectives. Those objectives are implemented within Stanthorpe High’s curriculum to stimulate an interest and then create opportunities for that interest to become a career. Thus -

2.2 Student interest in Wine Tourism is stimulated through the inclusion of short

course work in existing Middle Schools subjects across the curriculum. Section 3.3 (Page 4) details Middle School programs “… that maximise student engagement and achievement.” (Destination 2010 Pg 9) (Appendix C).

2.3 Opportunities are created for students to direct their interest in Wine

Tourism careers through specific courses and qualifications offered within the Senior School. Section 3.2 (Page 3) details Senior Schooling/VET programs that are part of the Banca Ridge program. In brief - • Stanthorpe High offers a range of Certificate I and II courses specific to

the Wine Tourism Industry as sought by local industry. • Individual school based Traineeships in cellar door, wine making,

business, tourism and hospitality careers are in place. • Short term Work Placement and Mentoring Programs are arranged

through the school’s Work Education Office.

3. - CONNECTION TO QSE – 2010, DESTINATION 2010 AND/OR EDUCATION AND TRAINING REFORMS FOR THE FUTURE: Although the `product’ of the Banca Ridge Project appears for many to be the wine produced, the focus remains that of student involvement in enterprise education across the curriculum. It is through `learning by doing’ in partnership with the local wine tourism industry that Banca Ridge meets a range of outcomes within the Destination 2010/ETRF Agenda. In particular it aims to give students who might otherwise leave school a training and career pathway that meets a key goal of the ETRF White Paper - namely, “…exciting and flexible pathways from school to work, training or further education’. (Pg. 4. Foreword, ETRF White Paper).

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3.1 - Establishing a Collaboration with Industry, Business and the Community. • Banca Ridge began with contacts from local winemakers to the effect that

specific Wine Tourism industry training was not available in Queensland. • From a realisation that school’s Agriculture Department’s experience of

successfully managing a commercial Stone fruit Orchard, Cattle Stud and Sheep and Poultry operations over 25 years could extend to wine tourism.

• The creation in 1999 of a Management and Advisory Committee for the Banca Ridge Wine Tourism Education Project has lead to six years of active participation of local industry, business and community in the project.

• The current Advisory Committee (Appendix A) demonstrates the diversity of industry, business and community members assisting the project.

• Over the duration of the project, assistance has included donations in both time and money from the community. Examples include $1,500 from Kopper’s Logs, $2,000 from Ballandean Estate Wines, $2,000 from Sirromet Wines, $1,375 from BP Australia, $2,500 from OneSteel and Wesfarmers/ Landmark, $4,500 from PPI Corporation, $1,250 from the Bramble Patch and Harslett’s Farm for grapes and over 2,000 free labels from Queensland Label Makers.

• Stanthorpe Shire Council has been an active supporter of the project both in liaison with the Queensland Government and through in kind donations of over $150,000 for infrastructure (sewerage, water supply and roadwork).

• The Queensland Wine Industry Association through its members have donated approximately $250,000 in wine to be called `The Foundation Series’ to raise funds for the construction of a Banca Ridge winery and cellar door at the Queensland College of Wine Tourism. To be sold under the Banca Ridge label that foundation series will be matched dollar to dollar by ANTA funding.

3.2 - Implementing the ETRF Agenda in the Senior Phase of Learning. The ETRF White Paper (page 7) states that ETRF is about giving students “… greater flexibility to achieve qualifications beyond Year 10. This could be in school, in TAFE or through other forms of training”. As this submission shows Banca Ridge combines all those elements - school, TAFE and industry based training. Specific Certificate I and II VET qualifications are offered, namely - • Certificate I in Hospitality Operations. • Certificate I and II in Horticulture. • Certificate II in Tourism Operations. • Certificate II and III in Information Technology. • Certificate II in Office Administration. • Plant Anatomy and Physiology and Introductory Oenology as embedded Wine

Studies within Senior Agricultural Science. Appendix B and other examples embedded through this submission show how the Banca Ridge Project has successfully provided greater flexibility to students. 3.3 - Years 8-10 - Implementation of the KLA’s/Middle Phase of Learning Banca Ridge has from inception been designed as a cross-curriculum KLA project in the Middle Phase of Learning as a foundation for future VET Training. Through the Years 8-10 Agricultural Education SAS syllabus implemented at Stanthorpe High as Agricultural Science and Agricultural Mechanics, students - • In 2000 helped plant the vineyard and build trellising and support infrastructure. • Help maintain the vineyard by for example pruning grapes, training the vines,

using netting to combat bird attacks, controlling disease and picking the grapes.

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• Engage in real world production of wine through crushing the grapes, storing the wine in barrels, bottling the wine and adding labels to produce a commercial quality product that is an example of industry `best practice’. (Appendix C).

Through the SOSE KLA students - • Complete a tourist brochure in Year 8 that highlights aspects of the wine

tourism industry (A sample attached as Appendix D) while Year 8 Humanities involves students devising and marketing a tourist product.

• Can select a 10 week unit on Tourism as part of the Year 10 Foundation Studies program. (A sample of work from that unit is attached as Appendix E)

Living Design (a Year 9 Enterprise Education course commenced in 2005 within the Technology and the Arts KLA) has extended the project further by students - • Designing, producing and packaging for commercial sale under the Banca

Ridge label a product of their design having first assessed market conditions, potential market, costs and possible sale prices.

• Selling those products in a real world situation. At the 2005 Food and Wine Affair Year 9 students sold 100% of their product (Gourmet Chocolates).

Class Catering, Art and Industrial Design/Technology provide other examples - • At the inception of the project Year 8 Manual Arts students constructed in wood

presentation packs for the sale of wine (single and two packs). • Year 8 Art students individually designed art work for each such case - in

designs ranging from `grapes/grape leaves’ to indigenous designs. • The`Banca Ridge’ name was devised by students Alyse Marsh (Year 8) and

Sophie Neville (Year 10) from a school wide competition of 50 entries while the Banca Ridge Logo was designed by Year 9 student Shona Steele - also as a result of a school wide competition that received 70 entries. (Appendix C)

• Hospitality through `Class Catering’ (a commercially run business) trains students in the skills necessary for the hospitality industry. 35% of all Year 9/ 10 students selected Hospitality as one of their electives in 2005. (Appendix C).

3.4 Connecting Science to the Real World • As noted, Horticulture students manage the vineyard. This incorporates a range

of skills and knowledge from business to the productive health of the vineyard. • The science involved includes - analysis of soil, disease control, monitoring vine

growth, pest control, testing and monitoring of the wine and assuring wine quality. • Students, under the guidance of `best practice’ practitioners such as contract

winemaker Mark Ravenscroft, produce wine that is commercially viable. 3.5 - Incorporating the ICT for Learning Agenda. • The Maths Department through I.T.S. sets students the task of designing a

website to meet a specific client’s needs. In 2003 that was Banca Ridge. • A competition open to all saw Year 8 to 12 entries. www.bancaridge.eq.edu.au

(designed and constructed by Tanya Negerevich, Year 11, 2003) is the result.. • This web-site was one of the motivations for Web Management Services creation

of `Special Purpose Website Authorisations. It was one of the first such sites. • The Year 10 Tourism Option is a ten week self-paced computer based

course that involves completing a selection from 25 tasks/activities. (Appendix E) • In Graphics in Year 12 students use CAD to produce a portfolio of designs for

labels, packaging and marketing for a wine product.

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• The construction of a Winery and Cellar Door in 2006 will see Banca Ridge enter its full retail phase. It is planned that sales records, profit/loss accounts, mailing lists and related business processes will be managed by students within the Business Education SAS course as an Enterprise Education initiative.

4. - OUTCOMES AND EVIDENCE: The Banca Ridge Project has been recognized within EQ as `best practice’ in school/industry links, enterprise education and VET Training. Thus - • On the initiative of Stanthorpe High, industry supported the creation of the

Queensland College of Wine Tourism (QCWT) to provide additional training in Wine Tourism to Certificate III, IV and V to Degree Courses. (Appendix F).

• ANTA funding (c. $1.2 Million) and EQ School Renewal Funds (c. $630,000) with industry donations (c $300,000 direct and in kind) and Stanthorpe Shire Council support (c $150,000 in kind) will see the QCWT constructed in 2005.

• Training at the QCWT will be a joint venture between Stanthorpe High, the Southern Queensland Institute of TAFE and the University of Southern Queensland in conjunction with Sturt University with the support of the Queensland Wine Industry Association (See Multi-Media Presentation 2).

• Principal (John Neville) is currently establishing a Gateway Schools project using Banca Ridge as a model. This will see up to seven schools adopting the Banca Ridge model and providing a link to the QCWT beginning in 2006.

• The QCWT and Gateway School Project are evidence of the establishment of education partnerships - with (among others) SQIT, Dalby Ag. College, USQ, industry bodies (e.g. the QWIA and GBWIA) and Government (e.g. DWID, ANTA, State Development and Stanthorpe Shire Council).

Since the Project commenced in 2001 the project has achieved a number of milestones most important of which are quality outcomes for students. Including -

OUTCOMES EVIDENCE STUDENT OUTCOMES (See also Appendix E) • 64 Certificate I or II completed in Tourism, Hospitality and

Horticulture. An additional 43 students have successfully completed some modules. (Appendix B).

QSA SDCS.

• In 2002-2005 85% of students in Tourism gained Certificate II in Tourism Operations.

QSA SDCS

• In Year 8 every student is introduced to the vineyard while in Years 9-10 45% of Year 9’s and 48% of Year 10’s elect agricultural subjects which include vineyard components. (2005)

Timechart

• In 2004 for example 51% of Year 10 students chose Tourism as an option study. This is an increase from 18% at inception in 2000. (In 2002-2004 a total of 197 students chose that option study).

Timechart.

• Students in Years 12, 2004 completed hundreds of VET nationally approved modules related to the Wine Tourism Industry.

QSA SDCS

• Since 2002, 28 students have gained an SA or above in OP eligible embedded wine studies in viticulture/oenology.

QSA SDCS

• Since 2001 there has been a 290% increase (10 x 2001 to 39 x 2005) in the number of students selecting Year 11 Tourism.

SSHS Timechart.

• In 2005, 8 students are currently completing school based Traineeships in Wine Tourism related businesses. That is an 88% increase in the uptake of Traineeships in Wine Tourism.

QSA SDCS and DEST Data.

• SSHS student Alexander Smithers was awarded the 2004 Gold Medla in Viticulture at the Australian Worldskills VET awards.

World Skills Results.

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• From inception to 2004, 9 school based Traineeships were completed in Wine Tourism related business on the Granite Belt (Appendix B)

QSA SDCS and DEST Data.

• In 2005 Year 11 Tourism represents 27% of all Year 11 students. The majority are non-OP eligible. Before Banca Ridge they had no access to Queensland based wine tourism training.

Timechart.

• Every school based traineeship is a job created and filled within the local industry. 77% of school based trainees in the Banca Ridge project have remained working within the industry.

Destination Survey.

PROJECT OUTCOMES • Students have produced 4 vintages of an industry standard quality

product from 2001 to 2004. Namely - 2001 Federation Red, 2003 Wooded Chardonnay, Marsanne and Cabernet Sauvignon.

Production Records. Awards.

• Three additional vintages - a 2003 Sweet Red and 2004 Marsanne and Merlot will be launched at a 2005 Winemakers Dinner on May 13th to launch Education Week.

Advisory Committee Minutes.

• Through activities such as Markets in the Mountains students have successfully been involved in the process of selling (under supervision) 100% sales of the 2001 Federation Red, 2003 Wooded Chardonnay and 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon.

Banca Ridge Sales Records.

• Through the activities of the project state education has received positive feedback and publicity for developing the first Teaching Winery in the state. Over 75% of all visitors to the monthly Markets in the Mountain are familiar with the project from media reports (such as those on `Landline’) and often remark - “If only they had projects like this when I was at school I might not have left so early.” And `Should be more of it!”.

Letters of Support, Media Coverage (e.g. Landline 2005).

• The concept of `Enterprise’ is now an integral part of the school culture. As noted elsewhere Stanthorpe High’s Agriculture Department has operated a commercial stonefruit orchard and cattle stud for over 25 years. That concept has now been extended to the Wine Tourism industry and soon, through other curriculum areas, across a broader range of school activities.

School Work Program e.g. Living Design

• The project has seen the establishment of international educational connections. For example a Thai Teachers Study Group, via perusal of the School’s web-sites, has identified Stanthorpe High and Banca Ridge as best practice pedagogy and approached the school to visit to learn of the project.

Thai Teachers Study Group

• Evidence of that `best practice’ is the Australian Small Winemakers Silver and Sheraton/Courier Mail Bronze Medals awarded in 2003 to the Banca Ridge 2003 Marsanne.

Award Certificates.

7. - OTHER DOCUMENTATION: Optional Presentations - Photo Essay (PowerPoint) and a Photo Gallery (Word). 8. - PERSONNEL INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT (NAMES AND ROLES): The Banca Ridge Wine Tourism Education Project operates at Stanthorpe State High School through the authority of the Principal. It operates under the guidance of a fifteen member BANCA RIDGE WINE TOURISM EDUCATION PROJECT ADVISORY COMMITTEE. Membership of this committee demonstrates the breadth and depth of local industry and community support for and involvement in this project. Appendix A lists members by name, industry position and by role.

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BANCA RIDGE PROJECT APPENDIX A - BANCA RIDGE ADVISORY COMMITTEE

The Banca Ridge Wine Tourism Project Advisory Committee consists of fifteen

members. School based and community based members are all volunteers representing stakeholders in the project. Members are invited to join the Advisory Committee on the basis of their interest in the project and expertise as advisors to

the Management Team and to the Principal of Stanthorpe High. The committee list demonstrates how industry in-put is a vital contributor to the program’s success.

Fran Hodgson (Acting) Principal - Stanthorpe State High School. Glenn Turner Stanthorpe Mensland.

CHAIR - Banca Ridge Advisory Committee. (Advisory role on business management and promotion).

Members in alphabetical order - Ann Richardson HOD The Arts - SSHS - Banca Ridge Co-coordinator.

(Primary Responsibilities - Tourism Development/Student Liaison/Work Education/Cross-Curricular Development.

Chris Pascoe Happy Valley Retreat and Grape Escape Tours (Advisory role on business management, promoting tourist attractions, sales and marketing).

Don Stirling The Bramble Patch. (Advisory role on sales and marketing, promoting tourist attractions and business management practices)

Grant Casley Casley Mount Hutton Winery and Representative from Granite Belt Wine Industry Association. (Advisory role on wine quality, winery management and practices including sales and marketing).

Leeanne Gangemi Ballandean Estate Wines. (Advisory role on wine quality, winery management and practices including sales and marketing).

Mally McMurtrie Immediate Past Councillor (Stanthorpe Shire Council) and Immediate Past Chair Southern Downs Tourist Association. (Advisory role on local government liaison, community networks, business management, tourist operator’s liaison).

Mark Ravenscroft Ravens Croft Wines and Chair of Granite Belt Wine Industry Association. (GBWIA). (Contract Winemaker for Banca Ridge. Advisory role on wine production and winery and vineyard management)

Peter Grant Deputy Principal - SSHS. Line Manager Banca Ridge

Peter Watters Watters Vine Management. (Advisory role on viticulture - including vineyard operations, disease control, vine management).

Robert Channon Robert Channon Wines (Advisory role on wine quality, winery management and practices including sales and marketing).

Tony Heading HOD Agriculture SSHS - Banca Ridge Co-coordinator. (Primary Responsibility - Vineyard/Wine Production/Cross Curricular Development/Student Liaison).

Trevor Cooper Stanthorpe Shire Councillor (Council Representative - local government liaison).

Trevor Hicks HOD SOSE/Business SSHS - Banca Ridge Co-coordinator. (Primary Responsibility - Sales and Marketing/Cross Curricular Development/Promotion/Student Liaison).

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BANCA RIDGE PROJECT APPENDIX B - STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS

TABLE 1 - SCHOOL BASED TRAINEESHIPS

YEAR NUMBER NAMES AND INDUSTRY 2001 1 Administrator - The Grape Escape Tour Company. 2002 1 Cellar Hand - Ricca Wines 2003 1 Cellar Hand. - Ravens Croft Wines 2004 7 Receptionist - Vines Motel

Cellar Door/Café Attendant - Ballandean Estate Wines Café/Retail Attendant - Bramble Patch Café Attendant - The Regal Café. Café Attendant - The Coffee Spot. Café/Cellar Door - Golden Grove Winery Restaurant Attendant - The Tulip House (Ballandean)

2005 8 Cellar Hand - Ravens Croft Wines Cellar Hand - Casley Mount Hutton Winery Cellar hand - Golden Grove Winery Cellar Hand - Summit Estate Wines Café/Retail - Pure Heaven (Body Shop/Café) Café/Cellar Door - Golden Grove Winery Viticulture - Ballandean Estate Wines Receptionist - Top of the Town Caravan Park.

Special Mention - Rodney Lay - Viticulture Career via Work Experience through Banca Ridge. Alex Smithers - 2004 Australian Work Skills Champion in Viticulture.

TABLE 2 - SCHOOL CURRICULUM PARTICIPATION CERTIFICATE II IN TOURISM OPERATIONS

YEAR NUMBER FULL CERTIFICATE SOME UNITS ATTAINED2002 12 7 5 2003 12 8 4 2004 10 4 6 2005

39 (Year 11) 10 (Year 12)

Current Current

CERTIFICATE I AND II IN HOSPITALITY OPERATIONS YEAR NUMBER FULL CERTIFICATE SOME UNITS ATTAINED2002 18 7 8 2003 14 11 3 2004 15 9 6 2005

21 (Year 11) 11 (Year 12)

Current Current

CERTIFICATE I AND II IN HORTICULTURE YEAR NUMBER FULL CERTIFICATE SOME UNITS ATTAINED2002 13 1 X Certificate II 9 2003 15 14 x Certificate II 1 2004 7 3 x Certificate II 2 2005

20 (Year 11) 15 (Year 12)

Current Current

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE - EMBEDDED WINE MODULES IN OP COURSE YEAR SA OR ABOVE YEAR SA OR ABOVE 2002 10 of 13 2004 13 of 17 2003 5 of 8 2005 Current

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BANCA RIDGE PROJECT APPENDIX C - STUDENT CROSS-CURRICULA INVOLVEMENT

The diagram below demonstrates in a visual form the project’s theme of “an interest becomes a passion, a passion becomes a career” and shows some of the

connections between selected cross-curricula elements within the program.

SOSE 8-10 Completing a Tourist Brochure (Yr. 8) and a 10 week Tourism Option establishes the breadth of the tourist industry.

YEAR 8-10 AGRICULTURE Students tend the vineyard, pick grapes and help bottle and label the wine as well as observing aspects of the wine making process.

YEAR 9-10 BUSINESS In 2006 when the Cellar Door becomes operational it is planned that Business students will maintain business records and manage the accounting.

LIVING DESIGN Year 9 Living Design students design, make and market a product suitable for the tourist market.

Middle Schooling - Developing an Interest Banca Ridge

AGRICULTURE SOSE LIVING

DESIGN BUSINESS

Senior Schooling - Building the Passion

HOSPITALITY The School’s `Class Catering’ business has a long history of enterprise education. It too is part of the process of training students for a role in winery cafes etc.

VET HOSPITALITY

TRAINEESHIPS/MENTORING Once identifying themselves as having a future career in Wine Tourism students can elect to complete a School Based Traineeship in their chosen aspects of that industry.

AGRICULTURE Through Senior Horticulture and Agricultural Science students can complete up to Certificate II in Horticulture or embedded modules in viticulture/oenology that are chosen specifically to reflect the needs of local industry.

TOURISM The Year 11/12 Tourism course examines a range of activities including guest speakers such as local winemakers and tourist operations and visits to a range of different local tourist venues.

TOURISM AGRICULTURE Careers in Wine Tourism

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BANCA RIDGE PROJECT APPENDIX D - YEAR 8 TOURISM BROCHURE

Incorporating ICT’s for Learning this 1 page (of 6) is an example of the process by which student interest in Wine Tourism is encouraged across the curriculum. Year 8. SOSE students were asked to design a tourist brochure highlighting the local area.

Some great places to get away and paint are: Sundown National Park, Girraween National Park, Quart Pot Creek and Wisteria Cottage. These places all have great wildlife and magnificent scenic views. The Art Gallery also is a great place to walk around and see other painters’ works.

Stanthorpe is great to see in any season. In Spring the flowers are a must see. The Winter mornings with Spider webs spangled in dew above the frosted ground would be a great subject. In Summer the afternoon sunsets are simply spectacular. The changing leaves of Stanthorpe in Autumn form a lovely combination with Quart Pot Creek.

Some History of our town: Tin was mined here in 1872. Grapes were introduced by Father Davadi in 1878 who was reminded of similar areas in Italy. Pome fruit and stonefruit was sold in 1874. The research Station in Applethorpe was built 1934. Stanthorpe’s Post Office was built in 1901 and the illuminated clock came from England and was installed in 1903.

Student Photo removed as per Showcase Entry

Guidelines i.e. no photos.

Some more History

Stanthorpe’s name comes from the two words “Stannum” meaning Tin and “Thorpe” meaning town/or village Originally the present town was called Quart Pot Creek. However, following the tin rush in early 1872, the survey of allotments and other developments, it was named Stanthorpe by A.C. Gregory the Queensland Surveyor General.

Stanthorpe in Spring

Student Photo removed as per Showcase Entry

Guidelines i.e. no photos.

Stanthorpe in Autumn

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BANCA RIDGE PROJECT APPENDIX E - INCORPORATING ICT’S IN THE CURRICULUM

This sample is the first page of a computer based Internet task of 18 progressively complex sub-tasks for Year 10 Tourism students. This brief sample aims to

demonstrate how ICTs for Learning can be applied outside Computer Studies type courses. The Tourism Unit includes 25 such computer based tasks of varying type.

ATTRACTING TOURISTS – A CASE STUDY The Coolum Caprice

INTRODUCTION 1. Providing accommodation to tourists is one of the most important aspects of

the Tourist Industry. 2. Accommodation comes in a very wide variety of types – caravan parks, home

stays, cottages, motels, resorts, hotels, backpacker lodges and so on. 3. All such places must attract tourists and do this many different ways. 4. Below is an example of how one such accommodation venue attracts tourists. 5. The example being used is the COOLUM CAPRICE at Coolum on the

Sunshine Coast. TASK 1 –

1. Pretend you are planning a week’s holiday at the Sunshine Coast. You’ve never been to Coolum but are willing to consider it as a place to stay.

2. You’ve done an Internet search and found a resort called `The Coolum Caprice’.

3. Hot-link to the following web-site – 4. http://www.coolumcaprice.com.au/

5. Use their site to complete the following table. It gets increasingly complex!

THE `COOLUM CAPRICE’ – AN EXAMPLE OF HOW RESORTS PRESENT THEMSELVES TO ATTRACT TOURISTS.

TOPIC INFORMATION PROVIDED TO TOURISTS THEIR HOME PAGE

ADDRESSES The contact addresses for the resort are –

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THE RESORT Using the Home Page only to correct the following dot points. (They are inaccurate as they are at present).

• The Resort is about five stories high. • It is absolute Beachfront – meaning there is no road

between it and the beach. • It has its own restaurant. • It has a pool but not a spa pool/bath. • It has views of the beach but other tall buildings do

block out some of the view.

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BANCA RIDGE PROJECT APPENDIX G - LETTER OF SUPPORT MARK RAVENSCROFT

Advisory Committee Member and current Chair of the Granite Belt Wine Industry Association. Contract Winemaker for Banca Ridge and owner Ravens Croft Wines.

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APPENDIX H - LETTER OF SUPPORT GLEN ROGERS Mayor -Stanthorpe Shire Council.

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APPENDIX I - LETTER OF SUPPORT ANDREW HELTON Chair - Parents and Citizens Association, Stanthorpe State High

and Member of the Stanthorpe State High School Council.

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APPENDIX J - LETTER OF SUPPORT FRAN HODGSON Acting Principal - Stanthorpe State High School.