Pathways

Good luck for your Work Experience

On behalf of everyone at Brentwood, The Pathways Team extends best wishes to all the Year 10 students that are going to complete their work placements next week. Please carry the Work Experience booklet with you and complete the tasks in it.

An Alternate program will be run at school for students who aren’t completing their work placements next week.

Work Experience - Reflection

Last week, I had the amazing opportunity to do my work experience at Healesville Sanctuary. Over the week I got to work in many of their departments including horticulture, learning experiences, visitor engagement, and with the zookeepers. I helped with the school groups, making enrichment items for some of the animals, weeding, gardening, and observing the staff in the various departments do their jobs. It was a great opportunity to experience a wide variety of different roles within the zoo and understand the work that goes on behind the scenes of this amazing organisation. Everyone was very warm and welcoming, and I am honoured to have been able to have experienced this.

Isabella Devlin

10G3

Year 10 Work Experience and Alternate Program 

All Year 10 students who are attending the work placement need to read the protocols: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x33nFZx6p5zXCzZWvOepTtb9WSU-Fg_O/view 

Students not attending the placement MUST attend an alternate program at school during 19-23 June. The alternate program timetable will be published soon. 

See Mr. Li or Mr. Kalva if you have any questions. 

Upskilling Week 19-23 June  

Earn micro credentials and win prizes worth $750! If this sounds interesting, please continue reading... 

Upskilling Week, in support of the UN's World Youth Skills Day, is a week-long chance for students to gain skills and get rewarded for it. With thanks to various industry partners, students and schools will go into multiple draws to win gift cards to help incentivise skilling and reward those that do. The prizes include: 

Level Up'er Prize | $500 - Given to the most engaged students based on participation and completion of upskilling programs. 

The Experience Hustler | $100 - Given to the student who completes the most virtual work experiences. 

Youth Sustainability Honor | $100 - Complete the 👉 Communications & Sustainability Cadet and/or 👉 Junior Environmental Planner to entered into a draw. 

State Skill'er | $50 - A draw of students in each state who have enrolled and completed programs during Upskilling Week. 

To get started, sign up as a Brentwood student using this link (https://www.grandshake.co/signup) and attempt as many modules of Skills, Mentoring, Virtual Work Experience, Sustainability and Google certificate scholarships.  

Learn more here: https://grandshake.wistia.com/medias/2l5pgvmvms 

Sign up here: https://www.grandshake.co/signup  

Mr. Kalva

Sustainability Coordinator

Vocational Education and Training (VET) – Expression of Interest 

Students currently enrolled in Year 9 and 10 can express their interest to study an external VET course for next year using this form: https://forms.office.com/r/5zLsFVqbPb  

Firstly, watch this video to learn more about VET: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lf7Ou51NlA 

Next, browse the VET providers’ websites to identify a course you would like to pursue: Mullum cluster (our main provider for courses): https://www.mullumvetcluster.com.au/

• Boxhill: https://www.boxhill.edu.au/courses/vet-delivered-to-secondary-students/
• Chisholm: https://www.chisholm.edu.au/career-fields/vet-in-schools 
• Holmesglen: https://holmesglen.edu.au/Services/Services-for-Secondary-Schools/VET-Delivered-Programs/
• Tristar Aviation: http://www.tristaraviation.com.au/vetis.html
• Swinburne: https://www.swinburne.edu.au/courses/planning-your-future/vocational-education-training-secondary-students/ 

Applications close: 14th July 2023 

Centre for Higher Education Studies (CHES) Information Session 

The Centre for Higher Education Studies (https://ches.vic.edu.au) provides high-achieving and high-ability senior students from across Victorian government schools with opportunities for extension, acceleration, and enrichment as part of their overall VCE program, while remaining enrolled at your school.

Welcome to an Information session about CHES and an opportunity to meet with the students who are currently enrolled in CHES programs. 

When: 20 June (Tuesday) lunch break 

Where: L2 classroom 

Who: Students currently enrolled in Years 10 and 11

Subject Selections 2024 

Subject Selections for 2024 will open shortly. Please check your email, Teams, student bulletin and Compass for updates in coming days.

Students should check their school email for Edval instructions and login details. 

Please refer to the Subject Guide 2024 before you select the subjects: https://brentwood.vic.edu.au/curriculum/handbooks-booklists/  

Students are strongly recommended to watch the videos from Pathways Expo before submitting their subjects: https://www.brentwoodpathways.com/news-jobs/pathways-expo  

Year 10 and 11 students can submit their Expression of Intertest for VET courses using this link: https://forms.office.com/r/5zLsFVqbPb  

If necessary, please consult your family, friends, teachers and Pathways team before submitting your subjects so you get them right and don’t have to go through subject changes later on.

Year 12 Pathways Counsellor Appointments

• All Year 12 VCE & VM students must book an appointment to see Ms. Dowling, the Pathways Counsellor to discuss their Career Action Plans and post-Brentwood pathways.
• Students can access the link to book appointments on Compass.

Brentwood Pathways Team

The Brentwood Pathways team aims to empower students and their families with all the latest information to explore a broad range of career opportunities, build skills and prepare them for the global marketplace, equipped with competitive 21st-century skills to pursue productive, sustainable careers.

The Brentwood Pathways team is located in the SLC building. We are open from 9 am to 3 pm on all working days. We appreciate students checking the availability of our team members via Teams and booking an appointment before seeing us in the Pathways Office.

Our team members:

Director of Pathways & VCE: Ms. Ann-Marie Mackay

Pathways Managers: Mr. Venkata Kalva & Mr. Timothy Li

Pathways Counsellor: Ms. Bridget Dowling

VASS, VET & VM Administrator: Ms. Jennifer Chanter

VASS Administrator (VCE) and Attendance: Ms. Janelle Pentreath

Brentwood Pathways Website

Our team has launched a brand-new website: www.brentwoodpathways.com. This will be a one-stop shop for all year-levels for subject selections and future pathways queries, including Morrisby, Work Experience, VTAC etc.

Please email your feedback and suggestions to improve the website further to pathways@ms.brentwood.vic.edu.au

Brentwood Pathways Newsletter

Don't forget to check out our weekly Brentwood Pathways Newsletter. Click here to access the latest issue: https://www.brentwoodpathways.com/news-jobs/pathways-newsletter 

It is a great way for parents and students to keep up to date with Pathways-related programs, including subject selections, work experience and many more.