WORK EXPERIENCE

Earlier in term 2 saw year 10 students participate in the Work Experience Program. The Work Experience Program is a part of our Stage 1 Personal Learning Plan (PLP) course. The program offers and provides students with a range of opportunities, including developing employability skills, strengthening career goals and identifying pathways for Year 11 and 12 SACE. Furthermore, students in the lead up to commencing Work Experience, participated in 5-hours of Work Health and Safety Training, where they learned valuable lessons about safety in the workplace. Upon completing the training, students received a WHS Certificate and credential to add to their resumes.

The staff at Aberfoyle Park High School, made visits to make observations on how well students were progressing during their work placement. Students participated in a range of industry areas, such as mechanics, barbers, paving, design, robotics, hospitality and medicine to name a few.

Julia Mikhailova’s shared experience

During a period of time from 3 May to 7 May I had work experience at New Venture Institute (Flinders at Tonsley). During the week I had to participate in a range of meetings and a lecture. Through those meetings I have developed a better understanding of listening, communication, problem solving skills and mostly importantly developed an understanding of how New Venture Institute supports and provides opportunities for start-ups’ growth and Flinders students’ enterprises. I found this experience extremely interesting and helpful as I was able to work with a range of different people and learn about all the different components of business development. I learnt more about business management, start-ups’ issues and pathways, technologies used in product creation and students’ role in future innovations. As an assessment of my skills and understanding of business concepts I had to write a report. This task included conducting primary and secondary research about business clinics and start-ups, then interviewing three eNVIsion members about their start-ups and would they be interested in the business clinic.

THANK YOU TO THE WORKPLACE PROVIDERS

After returning from Work Experience, students were asked to write ‘Thank You Letters’ to their supervisors and workplaces, a part of the assessment task in PLP. On behalf of Aberfoyle Park High School, we would also like to acknowledge our gratitude toward the Workplace Providers who offered our students placement. These include:

99 Bikes Marion	ENT Department	Marion Primary School
Aberfoyle Campus OSHC	Envisionware pty Ltd	Megazone Noarlunga
Aberfoyle Community Centre	Estia Health Aberfoyle Park	Minisport
Aberfoyle Hub R-7 School	Flagstaff Hill Primary	Monkey Grip Automotive
Aberfoyle Hub Tavern	Flagstaff Oval Kindy	Moonglow Publishing
Aberfoyle Park Post Office and Newsagency	Flaxmill School P-7	Morphett Vale East School
Aberfoyle Park R-7 School	Flinders medical centre General Medicine	MS Wood Custom Woodwork
Aberfoyle Park Tyre and Mech (Bridgestone)	Flinders Microscopy and Microanalysis	Nortel Pty Ltd
Absolute Cooling Systems	Flinders New Venture Institute	Nu4U Opshop
Achieve Video Marketing	Flinders University, College of Medicine & Public Health	Ocker Electrical Services
Adelaide Central Physiotherapy	Flinders University, College of Medicine & Public Health	Our Saviour Primary School
Adelaide Eye and Retina Centre	Foodland Happy Valley	Phillip Bowley
Adrian Crisp Fitness @ Flagstaff	Frangipanis Cakes	PhysioXtra
AIE Adelaide	Free Flow Plumbing	PJ Lewis Electrical
Anytime Fitness	General Medicine FMC	Podiatry First Sports
Arena Internet café	Gibson EO	Podpac pty ltd
ASC PTY Ltd	Glow Heating cooling Electrical	Polyaire PTY Ltd
Australia Post	Goldilocks childcare centre	Promax Coaching
Australia Post, City delivery centre	Goodstart Aberfoyle Park	Property Presentation Plus
B Select	Goodstart Sheidow Park	Pulse Aero
Bakers Delight	Greenway Architects	Red Fox Films
Becks Bakehouse	Hackham East Primary School	Reflections Cleaning
Berri Primary	Hallett Cove school	Reynella Fasta Pasta
Bespoke Engineering	Hames Sharley	Reynella South School
Bilic Paving	Happy Valley Foodland	SA School for vision impaired
Blackwood Primary	Happy Valley Primary School	SAGE Automation
BR International	Harvey Norman	Scamps Hair and Beauty
Braeview School R-7	HMPS	School of Nativity
Brokk Australia Pty Ltd	HMPS	Seasonair
Chandlers Hill Kindergarten	Honey bee café	Southern Vales Mechanical repairs
Christopher Broadfoots Kitchen	Hub Butchers	Techit Computers
City of Onkaparinga	HubFine Foods Café	Thaxted Park Proshop
City of Onkaparinga-Hub Library	Huntfield Heights P-7	The barbers Chair
Classic Aussie Restorations	Ikea PTY Ltd	The Hub Preschool
Coffee Shop- Amy Jung	Immanuel College	The Perfect Note cafe
Colonel Light Gardens Primary School	Jessie Brown Pre-Kindergarten	Thiele Primary School
Commercial food Equip.	Kaye Automotive	Tubularian Fencing
Complete Kitchens	Kidz@woodcroft	Ultratune
Costa Enterprises	Kixo Pty Ltd	Unity retirement Village
Darlington Pharmacy	Kyle Theodoroulakes	University of Adelaide
Datacom	Laughing Dog Day Care	V+T Motors
David Speirs MP	Little Leaf and Bean	Windemere Lodge Equestrian centre
Davis Quality Constructions	Loucas Zahos Architects	Woodcroft Primary
DCM Services	MA Brown Fencing	Woolworths
Dematec Automation	Magain Real Estate	Workspace
Drakes Supermarket	Marion GP Plus Dental Clinic
Eden Hills Kindegarten	Marion Locksmiths
Dog Play Centre

ROUND TABLE PRESENTATIONS

In week 7, the final PLP Assessment Task concluded, where students reflected on their PLP journey in a Round Table Presentation forum, and presented to their PLP Teacher and families. It was evident students have made personal and professional growth since commencing the PLP program. Parents/caregivers often provided feedback about their child’s development since our last event in term 1, particularly around students developing confidence and making informed decision about their chosen career pathway.