VET Delivered to Secondary Schools (VETDSS) Information and Taster Day

Current Year 9 and 10 students and parents have commenced the process of understanding the many exciting options that open to students as they move into the senior years.

For students entering Year 10 the opportunity to study vocation (VET) courses is an option, and one usually taken up by nearly half of this year cohort.  Hence all this year’s Year 9 students participated in this day to ascertain their interest and its relevancy to their educational pathway.  Students experienced hands-on classes in four vocational areas at HDSC and SW TAFE of their choice, which will enable students to make very informed decisions.  Options were very varied as shown by the photographs ranging from active volunteering, sports coaching, early childhood, automotive, engineering, horticulture, hairdressing, health services assistant and electrotechnolgy to name just some of them. Active volunteering involved constructing bird boxes to assist an environmental organisation, plant identifications in horticultural, electro motor forces in electrotechnology and play dough activities to gain an insight into early childhood.

Students considering a VCE Vocational Major should be choosing a VET course in Year 10 as an excellent preparation.  Students doing VCE can do VET subjects which count towards the ATAR and will give them a completed Unit I to Unit 4 by the end of Year 11.

Ms Anne Gough

VCE VMVET Administrator