Career Information
Career's Festival
On behalf of Duval High School I would like to extend a warm invitation to you, your Year 10, 11 and 12 students, their parents and teachers to attend our local Community Careers Festival.
Date and Venue
DATE: Wednesday 26th July 2017
TIME: 4.30pm - 7.30pm.
VENUE: Duval High School
The festival is scheduled to run from 4:30-7:30 in order to provide an opportunity for parents, carers and businesses to attend without disrupting their working day.
Objective
The Careers Festival is an engaging event aimed at providing our young people and the community with an opportunity to explore career options and identify future career pathways.
Duval High School will host over 70 representatives from various businesses/industries, training providers, government departments and educational providers to highlight some examples of what is currently available to our students beyond secondary school within our local community.
The Careers Festival will be an interactive event where students’ parents and the community can engage in activities and discuss career opportunities with local businesses in a fun and educational environment.
The Festival aims to provide students with sound career information and knowledge prior to subject selection. Students can use this experience to choose courses that reflect their career planning. The interactive Festival is specifically designed to stimulate student interest and provide an opportunity for us all to celebrate our careers, share knowledge and guide our youth towards a happy and successful life after high school.
Student Engagement
To ensure student engagement and traffic throughout the exhibit hall, a Passport Program has been initiated to encourage students to visit multiple exhibitors and gather as much information as they can so that they can make informed choices about their future. Each Exhibitor/Stall holder will be issued with an individual stamp. A student must engage with a stall holder and gain relevant information before receiving a stamp that authenticates their interaction. Completed passports will go into a draw to win prizes such as a Samsung Galaxy Tablet, 32 inch TV, iTunes vouchers, movie tickets, gift cards……………..and more.
The more stalls students visit, the more stamps they collect, the more chances they have in WINNING !!!!
We will also be running a video completion on the evening. Students will be encouraged to interview exhibitors and create a one minute careers video documentary.
Food & Entertainment
Throughout the evening there will be live entertainment, Easy As coffee, complimentary sausage sizzle and refreshments, fairy floss, PRIZES and a SPECTACULAR FIREWORKS FINALE!
Information & RSVP
Please visit www.duvalcareersfestival.com for more information and encourage your students, parents and teachers to register for catering purposes.
Please feel free to email the attached flyer to you school community and share the attached Facebook post to your school Facebook community. I will also be delivering printed invitations within the next week.
As an educational leader, you are very influential in young people’s career decisions. Could you please take the time to encourage your students, parents and carers to attend, and support our local community.
Please click on the YouTube link to view our 2012 / 2014 Video Clip.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz9VYWNkQDA&t=2s
Please don’t hesitate to call me if you have any questions.
Thank you for your support.
Helpful Hints
HSC Helpful Hints: English
Two (2) units of English MUST be counted in your ATAR. It's the single guaranteed factor in determining your ATAR, so commit yourself to its study over the coming weeks. "English is the subject where you're learning how to say what you mean and mean what you say."
1. Know your descriptors/ rubric points very well. The words used to describe the concept/module/elective may actually help you to develop your own thesis/ ideas around which you write your extended response or creative composition. Also the words or synonyms usually can be found in some way within the question being asked.
2. Structure is crucial. Key Words:organisation, clarity, development of argument, evidence and connection.
3. What's needed?
Introduction: that shows your thesis, answers the question, a summary of your ideas and references to your texts.
Body: at least 4-5 paragraphs constructed via the ideas from the introduction and loaded with detail and insightful analysis of texts.
Conclusion: with an overall statement that re-evaluates your opening statement, as well as a closing insight that recognises what you have learnt/discovered from your study of this unit.
4. Make sure your ideas move appropriately from one to the next.
Your sentences and analysis must flow and directly support your ideas. Your language connection (how you link your ideas and/or texts) should be inserted in the right places and tie together. Learn your connective words e.g. so, but, therefore, next, subsequently, finally, next etc.
5. Identify, Support And Explain.
Identify: the point you are making that relates to your thesis and question.
Support: the point with well-chosen evidence from the text that is appropriately woven into your sentence.
Explain: how the evidence (including any techniques within it) demonstrate your point, making sure its relevance to your overall argument is clear.
6. Don't just regurgitate: but you can prepare main ideas, read models although you must be able to adapt to whatever the stimulus/question is.
How: look at the question, pick out the key words and do some planning. You should have formulated an argument in your head before you start the response.
7. Practise with past papers and questions for all sections of both papers: Read unseen texts, pick out the language features and practise structuring paragraph responses within time limits and STAY RELEVANT to the question or stimulus posed.
NB in Section 1 paper 1 be guided by the marking scheme for the length of response.
Library Request
Returning Books
It is getting towards the end of term and many students still have books borrowed out earlier in the year that need to be returned. Emails have been sent out to students regarding this and the library requests that these matters be resolved. Students with outstanding loans are asked to return the book.
Students are asked to look carefully in the bedrooms, lockers and school bags to find items. Please find and return books to avoid inconvenience at the end of the year. If you think you have returned a book then please come and speak to the library staff.
READING OVER THE HOLIDAYS I encourage all students to continue to read over the holidays. Come and visit us in the Library if you need a new book!