COMMUNITY
ALUMNI NEWS
Careers that Care excursion
Year 10-11 WHC students are invited to attend a Q&A panel event exploring “Careers that Care”.
The panel will showcase a variety of careers that care for others, such as mental health work, teaching, youth work and road trauma management. They will speak about their jobs, what inspired them to work in a caring field, and how they got there.
The panellists are all public high school alumni of the Geelong schools that participate in the Ourschool alumni service. Representing WHC on the alumni panel is Nicole Scott, a mental health youth worker.
WHAT: Careers that Care panel Q&A
WHERE: Newcomb Secondary College
WHEN: Friday 1 April, leaving WHC at 10.30am. A light lunch will be served around 12.15pm
WHO: Year 10 and 11 students interested in hearing about a range of careers
Students interested in attending this excursion should contact Mr Conron, or our alumni program coordinator Jennifer Chiu at alumni@whc.vic.edu.au as soon as possible.
Jennifer Chiu | Alumni Program Coordinator
Agitating for a new school gym
Our college council is working hard to advocate to complete the stage 3 of the Western Heights College Regeneration Plan which commenced in 2006 with a Bracks led State Labor government to rebuild the school. Stage 1 and 2 is complete in 2014 but we are yet to receive funding for stage 3 and rare currently using our old dilapidated single court gym on our previous Quamby Campus of Western Heights College.
Stage 3 is the building of an on-site multi-purpose indoor sports stadium adjacent to the staff carpark off Carey St. The college is urgently requesting the Labor State Government Support funding the final stage of its masterplan to finish the school as promised. Funding sort has recently been costed by Architects at 12.5 million dollars for a double court gymnasium and strength and conditioning space.
The college is currently spending $36,000 in additional costs for buses to hire external indoor sports stadium to run its curriculum programs. In addition to this the school is also having to fund annually $60,000 in bus costs to transport students to complete sport and physical education curriculum programs. This is not sustainable or equitable.
We encourage our parent community to write an email to both our state local government member The Hon. Mr John Eren by sending him an email:
john.eren@parliament.vic.gov.au
We are also encouraging students, parents, and carers to also write to our The Hon. Education Minister, Mr. James Merlino: James.Merlino@parliament.vic.gov.au;
We encourage you to write individually to explain why we need funding to complete our school. 16 years to complete our school regeneration program is unsatisfactory. Our students deserve this new facility and have waited long enough. Your support would be gratefully appreciated. The community of Western Heights Colleges is reaching out to our politicians to finish building our school.
The values we live by at Western Heights College are Integrity, Community and Courage. We need Mr. Merlino and Mr Eren to hear the words of our students, parents, staff and alumni who have never given up hope that one day we will be heard. Show them that our government also has integrity to finish what they started.
Please support us!
The College has a Facebook page which is great for keeping up to date with details around the College.
https://www.facebook.com/westernheightscollege/
VCAL SHOP
On Thursday 17th of February the VCAL Shop is re-opened under the new name 'The Patch'. The shop is being managed by the Year 12 VCAL students, with the year VCAL 11 students making products to sell. We currently stock a range of gifts, planter boxes and outdoor furniture. Watch out for new products coming soon!
Opening Hours: Tuesday: 9.30am - 1pm
Thursday: 9.30am - 1pm
Location:Vines Road Community Centre (near the entrance to the library).
* This year the shop is running as a social enterprise and 50% of the profits will be used to purchase computers for students in need.
