Year 10 Work Experience

Year 10 students completed work experience last week. We had to find our own placement and ask the employer if we could work with them. 

Students worked as far away as Queensland and New South Wales. Some went to Melbourne and many worked locally.

I worked in Disability care at Mulleraterong. Some of the things I did included going to the pool, watching movies with the clients, interacting with them and helping out in the classroom. I found this work enjoyable because it is a fun and rewarding job.

I encourage all the Year 7 to 9 students to look forward to work experience in Year 10. 

I would now like to introduce Ella Dawson to present a small report on her experience. 

Chris Wormald - Year 10

For Work experience I went up to Winton Qld. to work at the Age of Dinosaurs Museum. I was working in the lab focusing more on the Palaeontology side of things. Palaeontologists study life on earth through fossil records.

The majority of my time spent there I was prepping a dinosaur which is using a small tool, kind of like an air chisel, to get rid of all the dirt and rock around the bone until you get down to the actual bone and uncover it. When I wasn’t prepping I was working on other jobs such as sorting, which is where there are tiny bits of rock and bone and you have to get all the bone pieces out. I scrubbed acetone on bones because it cleans them and gets old dirt off easily and makes it easy for puzzling, which is difficult because you’re trying to find where all these pieces of the bone have fallen off during the prepping process and where they are meant to go again. I had to do sieving which is where you have rocks and bone covered in dirt and you get some and put it on the sieve and then in water and shake it around just to get rid of all that dirt and then lay all the rocks and bone on a tray and leave it in the sun to dry then once it’s dry you start sorting it.

I also did a few little jobs like smashing big pieces of rock with pieces of bone in it and once it was smashed I took out the bone chunks that came out and put them into a bucket so they could go and make dinosaurs dust with it to put in the gift shop for the little kids. They also have these huge shipping containers everywhere and they are all filled with bones from the most completed dinosaurs which are left in there until they finish the rest of the dinosaur or it needs to come out for research. Some of the containers have over 500 little draws in them and I had a job of putting bones that were once on display back into the right draw.

It was a great experience and I would definitely recommend going there if you’re interested in that area.

 Ella Dawson - Year 10