Italian Out of School Hours Primary Program

The Co.As.It. Italian Out of School Hours program provides each student with 37 weeks of quality Italian lessons and a workbook.

Overview

Students are exposed to a fun and educational experience that allows them to explore the wonders of all things Italian. They get to:

• participate in competitions
• perform in end-of-school year Italian performances
• have the chance to win a Minister’s Award for Excellence

Co.As.It. teachers are friendly, dedicated, experienced and approved to teach by the Department of Education - Community Languages Program. Our teachers follow the K-10 Out-of-School Hours teaching program developed by Co.As.It in conjunction with the NSW K-10 Italian Syllabus. HSC students follow the Stage 6 Italian Syllabuses.

Classes

Classes at Meadowbank are open to children currently enrolled in Kindergarten to Year 6. Lessons are of 2 hours duration per week and classes may have a minimum of 10 to a maximum of 25 students. The program runs as per school year, from February to December.

Program Overview

Kindergarten

Language Content

By the end of Early Stage 1, students interact in Italian with their peers and teacher through action-related talk and play-based activities.

• Greetings Introducing self/ asking someone name
• Identify immediate family members
• Main body parts
• Identify fruits
• Telling own age
• Toys
• Objects’ position
• Pets
• Going to the park
• Commands in the classroom
• Identify emotions
• Going to the sea side
• Main Italian celebrations

Stage 1

By the end of Stage 1, students interact in Italian with their peers and teacher to exchange greetings and simple information.

Language content

• Greetings: Introducing self and others
• Describe family members
• Body parts and their functions
• Express like and dislike about food
• Birthday party and party food
• Identify and describe objects and their position
• Zoo animals
• Activities at the park
• Going to school: classroom objects
• Expressing emotions
• Activities you do at the beach or at the snow
• Italian celebrations

Stage 2

By the end of Stage 2, students interact with others in Italian to share information and participate in guided classroom activities that involve following instructions and collaborating with peers.

Language content

• Greetings and expressing preferences
• Describe their home
• Talking about own health
• Offer, accept, refuse, express preferences in regard of food
• Set the table: utensils
• Describe how objects are positioned
• How animals move
• Leisure time
• School activities
• Identify, discuss and express emotions
• Italian holidays
• Celebrations

Stage 3

By the end of Stage 3, students interact with others in Italian to exchange information and opinions. They engage in classroom activities and collaborate with peers.

Language content

• Describing themselves and others
• Talk about where someone comes from and nationalities
• Things one can do, such as dancing, swimming, singing ect.
• Food from around the world
• Organising a birthday party and inviting friends over
• Describe positions of objects in the space and their opposite position
• Animals and habitat
• Describe sports and leisure activities
• School and after school activities
• Describe their own emotions and emotions of others
• Describe and recount an holiday
• Celebrations