Secondary News 

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The VCE's new Vocational Major lets students explore their passions and talents.

The VCE Vocational Major is a 2-year applied learning program within the VCE and includes 180 hours of Vocational Education and Training (VET), so students obtain real-world skills and knowledge to one day land a job in Australia’s most in-demand industries.

Whether they’re into music production, hospitality or agriculture, VCE Vocational Major students finish school with an employability edge, ready to take on work, life and more study. Students complete a high-quality curriculum, and work toward completing a VET qualification while finishing school.

The Victorian Pathways Certificate is a new flexible Year 11 and 12 course designed for the small number of students who, for a range of reasons, are not able or ready to undertake the VCE or the VCE Vocational Major in schools.

Teachers and career counsellors are available to answer questions, and to support students as they make decisions about their final years at school.

For more information, go to www.vic.gov.au/VCE

Year 9

Recently, the year 9 students went to Goroke P-12 College to learn about what VET courses are offered at Longerenong College every Wednesday for students that are interested in doing VCE VM in their senior school years.

There were four different presentations presented by qualified teachers that were shown to the students, those being Auto Mechanics, Building and Construction, Agriculture, and Equine. After the mini presentations, the students went to their two preferred stations to get a more hands on and in depth look into a course that interests them.

Equestrian

The Edenhope Equestrian Team members Nyima Doelle, Issy Bourne, Chloe Dubois, Maggie Treglown and Jess Junor have been out and about competing at the Green Triangle Winter Series Show Jumping Competitions. On the 1st & 2nd June Edenhope Adult Riding Club hosted round 3 of the series. The equestrian team helped set up the show jumping course during their weekly lesson leading up to the competition. On Saturday there was show jumping and cross-country training rounds.  On Sunday was the competition day with heights starting from 35cm-105cm. Chloe Dubois assisted with measuring the course on Sunday. Chloe won the 35cm optimum time class on Charlie. This kind of comp is ran over one round with the winner having the time closest time to the 300m per minute and with the lowest faults. Well done team on successfully competing and with their help on making the weekend a very successful one.

Experiential Learning

Last Wednesday the Experiential Learning students spent the day at the Edenhope Flora and Fauna reserve. The students visited the reserve to revisit a project they started in Year 5 and 6 where they planned how to improve the reserve for Tourism. 

In 2022 the students worked with Mrs Burgess at Edenhope College, Miss Farran at St Malachy’s School and Mrs Turner at Apsley Primary school in a term long STEAM project. The students planned new signage, mosaic art and researched animals and plants for a website for both The Edenhope Flora and Fauna reserve and Newlands Reserve in Apsley. This project was part of $20,000 funding provided by a Parks Innovation Victoria Grant ‘We love this place and would love to volunteer here’. Their project was so successful that they were invited to present their work to the Wimmera Mallee Tourism committee and as Park of a Parks Victoria Webinar on the grant.

The student’s part in the project has been matched by many volunteer hours and has resulted in a mosaic art trail and new signage for both reserves. Last Wednesday the students went back to the reserve to install mosaic arrows they made last year, install signage alongside the mosaic art and to weed out the coastal wattle that is taking hold in the reserve. They removed over 300 coastal wattle saplings in a massive team effort. Jess Sambell, Callum Sambell, and Madric Brennan joined the students for the day to install the signage and a seat that Madric has donated to the reserve. Thank you very much to Jess and to Gloria Freeman who worked hard on the weekend before to get the reserve prepped for the student’s working bee. It was a very successful day and the student enjoyed both working hard and spending the day in the bush.