Careers

Hello Parents/Guardians and Community Members,

We are over the halfway mark for term 1 and our Year 10 students should be close to finalising their work experience placements and are required to bring in all paperwork by 28th March so I can contact all host employers in time to sign off on the insurance for each student to go out on work experience. 

We have held many events this term and have many more coming up. Please see the summary of each event held in recent weeks and our upcoming event details outlined below.

Final White Card Course held on 28th February:

Our second group of students attended the White Card course last Friday 28th February, with our students fully engaged in learning the importance of Workplace safety and everyone’s responsibility in following, responding and reporting SafeWork processes in the Construction industry. Students were all well-mannered and fully engaged throughout the day. Students all successfully completed the requirements for the course and were issued with their Certificates at our morning Assembly. Students can expect to receive their SafeWork Safety White Cards in the mail in the next four weeks. 

Our next White Card course is to be confirmed later in term 2. Students can come to the careers office to have their name put on the wait list. *All students will need to obtain a Unique Student Identifier Number to participate. I can assist students to obtain this online but will require them to bring in a photo of their Medicare card to obtain this USI. Or students can obtain this themselves by accessing the following website:

https://www.usi.gov.au/providers/create-usi-student

TAFE YES Program – Construction Update:

Our group of Year 10 students are now working on their resort chairs and making great progress. Students are demonstrating great teamwork, are engaged and enthusiastically building their projects. I cannot wait to see the finished projects in a few weeks’ time. We thank their TAFE Teacher Chris and as always, we wish to also thank Fee Smith for her tireless work and advocacy for our students. 

Last week’s Guest Speakers:

Charles Sturt University Early Entry Talk – Held on Wednesday 5th March

This past week our senior students had the opportunity to speak directly with our CSU Student Liaison Officers to spoke about all things CSU, who guided students through the CSU Advantage Early Entry program and discussed accommodation options, scholarships and pathway options to uni. Students were given instructions on how to best respond to the specific criteria for the Charles Sturt Advantage program and what examples they could use in their responses. Students were able to ask any questions they had and can follow up with Mrs Ing for help in applying to CSU in the coming weeks. CSU Early Entry is now open for applications. 

Legal Aid Visit - Held on Wednesday 5th March 2025: 

Also, on Wednesday 5th March we were fortunate to have Karina visiting from Legal Aid NSW. Karina is a lawyer presented a very important and informative talk on Workplace Rights to our Year 12 and Year 7 students. Our students were able to fully engage in session and gave some great responses to the discussion and learned more about how to navigate their workplace rights as young people entering the workforce. We sincerely thank Karina for travelling down to the Riverina from Sydney to speak with us about this very important issue. Karina has a natural ability to discuss such sensitive issues with students and shared a wealth of knowledge, giving students such relevant and real-world advice that they can use in the future. Thank you, Karina! Students are welcome to speak to me in the careers office if they have any follow-up questions after this presentation.

Upcoming Events:

CSU Explore Day 18th March 2024: 

On Tuesday 18th March our Year 10 cohort will travel over to the Charles Sturt University Explore Day. This is a fantastic day for our Year 10 students to immerse themselves into interactive workshops and to explore and try out University courses and see what university life is like. Students have already registered for this event and should have the school note sent out on School Bytes. Please complete this note to ensure you can come on the day. 

YEAR 10 Work Experience – Week 11 Term 1 – 7th April – 11th April:

Please note that Year 10 Work Experience week will be held the last week of this term 7th-11th April. All students in year 10 are expected to try to source and attend work experience that week. I have spoken with most of the Year 10 students and have provided students with the information packs and forms as well as instructions on how to go about finding a placement. All forms and placements are to be finalised by Friday 28th March so that I can complete the necessary correspondence and finalisation of the forms to ensure students are prepared, covered by insurance and are set up safely for their placement. Students can come see me in the careers office for further guidance if they need support.

UOW Visit – 19th March – Senior Students: 

On the 19th March our Student Liaison officer at UOW – James Barton will be presenting to our senior students all thinks UOW, course and pathway options to Uni, what scholarships, internships, exchange programs are available to UOW students and exploring in general what Uni life is like.

Students will have the opportunity to chat to James about anything Tertiary related and James will be back in Term 2 to support our Year 12 students with their early entry applications.

Unserious Careers Visit – Wednesday 26th March – Senior Students:

Alana Kilmartin of Unserious Careers will be visiting our Senior Students to discuss how to navigate the first 5 years of your career, how to maximise your opportunities and some life lessons Alana has picked up in her career. Alana visited our school last term, while our Seniors were siting their exams, so we have asked Alana to come back to present to them her real world insights and knowledge. 

TAFE YES Program – Hair & Beauty Term 2:

We are excited to hear, that our fabulous Fee Smith of TAFE has secured a Hair & Beauty TAFE YES Course to be run up at Narrandera TAFE next term. Students who are keen to participate from Years 9 & Year 10 (who are over 15yrs of age) are welcome to come put their names on the list for this course. This will be a one day per week x 5-week course where students will attend each Friday for the five weeks. There are limited spots available. Please see Mrs Ing ASAP!

All Careers Events:

All these opportunities are always announced to students at our morning assemblies, year meetings and in our newsletters. Any student or parent who has any questions in relation to these activities are welcome to contact the careers office for further information. 

Mrs Judy Ing 

Careers Adviser