Courses & Events

ALFABS SITE VISIT-

Next Thursday 27th June, TEN Year 10 students have an incredible opportunity to attend a worksite tour designed for those interested in the SBAT pathway. This visit will offer insights into ALFABS and the various roles they have available, as well as a chance to observe operations in a large metal fabrication workshop.

Alfabs Engineering specializes in fabricating heavy structural steel, detailed pipe ductwork, and more. Their team handles a wide range of fabrication projects supporting the infrastructure, construction, and resources industries across New South Wales and beyond.

As the largest manufacturer in the Cessnock and Kurri Kurri area, Alfabs employs over 300 staff, including school-based trainees.

If you are interested in attending, or in a SBAT, you need to email me or come see me ASAP.

TAFE-Start your future for yr 10 students - TAFE NSW’s Start Your Future helps students identify potential career pathways through vocational tasters in a wide range of industries, delivered at a local TAFE NSW campus. The Start your Future initiative gets students out of the school setting into TAFE-style learning, usually attending a TAFE NSW campus one day per week over 10 weeks in term 1,2,3 & 4 

Initiative activities include:

• Taster courses in different industries leading to a TAFE NSW Statement in Youth Engagement
• TAFE NSW support services, including career counselling, mentoring, career advice, and literacy and numeracy support
• Visits to industry sites and real workplaces 
• Local funding to help with items such as PPE and transport

Students see their canvas course or check sentral notices to fill in an EOI week 6 of each term. Students must be 15years or over and have a USI to enrol. 

* Formally known as TAFE NSW YES+

Work Experience - Work experience can be undertaken at any time, in any term. Please see your careers advisor for more information, or in this careers HUB under work experience.

Please check first if you require a whitecard to complete work experience 

UCAT 2024 Registration is Now Open

If any Year 12 students are considering a career in medicine or dentistry, they will need to sit a compulsory entry exam known as the UCAT (University Clinical Aptitude Test) before they can apply for relevant placements in the aforementioned fields of study within most universities. 

Students and parents: the important UCAT dates and deadlines as well as the upcoming UCAT Information Session on the 3rd of April. 

UCAT 2024 Registration is Now Open

Candidates taking the UCAT ANZ in 2024 for entry to universities in Australia and New Zealand in 2025 should note the following key dates. 

UCAT ANZ 2024 Key Dates 

PLEASE NOTE: UCAT registration is only via the UCAT ANZ website - ucat.edu.au

Universities and the UCAT Requirements

UCAT Format

Attention: Year 9 - 12 Students, Parents and Career Advisers

UCAT & Pathways into Medicine Information Session 

Free Webinar

3 April 2024 at 7.00pm (AEDT)

The National Institute of Education ( UCAT NIE) is proud to present the free information seminar all about UCAT and the undergraduate pathways into medicine and dentistry.

This forum is an excellent opportunity for teachers, students, and parents to find out about the UCAT and to have their questions answered by an expert who has been working in the field since 1999.The session is PACKED with loads of valuable information during which we will be covering the following topics and more. 

• What is UCAT? UCAT scores? UCAT Sub-tests?
• The Undergraduate Selection Criteria
• Application process into universities for medicine and dentistry
• When and who can sit the UCAT
• UCAT vs GAMSAT - How is UCAT different?
• Can you prepare for the UCAT?
• Undergraduate medical school interview explained and medical school interview preparation advice
• Gap Year
• Alternative degrees and career choices
• Q & A

REGISTER here

Newcastle UNI Webinars – Students and Parents/Carers  

Mid-Year Info Session 

Date: 5 June 2024 

Time: 5:00pm 

https://www.newcastle.edu.au/events/info-sessions/undergraduate/mid-year-info-session

If you have questions about studying an undergraduate with us from Semester 2, we're here to help! We're hosting an online info session and invite you to join us. If you've recently had a gap year, completed TAFE or similar or have been working and are looking to retrain or make a career change, this session provides you with a number of opportunities to learn more about studying at the University of Newcastle. 

Central Coast and Newcastle Parent and Carers Info Sessions 

We invite parents and carers of Y12 students to join us this year for our face-to-face Central Coast and Newcastle Parents and Carers Info Sessions.  

Parents and Carers will have the opportunity to hear from knowledgeable university staff and current students, covering a range of different topics to assist you in supporting your child through their transition from high school to university including entry schemes and pathways to university including our Early Entry Program.  

You’ll also have the chance to hear from current University of Newcastle Student Ambassadors about their first-hand experience transitioning from school to university, student life, support services and much more. 

Please see below dates, locations and registration links. Please share information about our Parents and Carers Info Sessions with your students and school community.  

Newcastle Parents and Carers Info Session 

 for face-to-face event 

*Our Newcastle session will also be live streamed online. Live stream details will be shared closer to event. 

Callaghan Campus  2 May 2024 

Cessnock Tafe:

 Are running several TAFE courses for next semester. They are directly run through the TAFE, not our school. Please check the flyers and if you are interested, you need to contact the details on the flyers. 

If you need support to do this, swing past and see me in the careers office..