Senior School
In The Know With Careers
Welcome back to a new school year! I look forward to another productive year working with the students at St Patrick’s College, Strathfield to help them find their passion.
Dr Vittoria Lavorato’s Principal’s address at the Opening Mass and High Achievers’ Ceremony on Friday 5 February summed it up beautifully when she said that you should follow your passion and not chase the wealth, because if you follow your passion you would be more likely to sustain the motivation to achieve your goals.
So, with that in mind I would like each boy to ask themselves: “What is my passion and what is required for me to get there”? Work towards this goal and keep a positive mindset while striving towards it. Remember that perseverance, determination, positivity, focus, resilience, and hard work are the essential traits required to achieve your goals.
Congratulations to the 2020 cohort on their HSC results and offers for 2021. It was a pleasure working with the students last year to assist them in deciding what post-school option they will take. Most of the students that applied for university managed to get into the first course of their choice.
Like in the previous year, I will be publishing a weekly Careers Newsletter in the Especean. I encourage parents/carers to browse through the newsletter each week as you may find something that will be of interest to your son. All students in Year 10, 11 and 12 will be emailed a copy of the newsletter.
Inside this week’s edition of In The Know With Careers you will find information on the following:
- university offers for 2020 Year 12 students
- the agenda for Careers at St Patrick’s College in 2021
- Highest ranging universities
- Medicine and the UCAT
- Western Sydney University webinars on many courses and career options and how to apply
- how to get into Oxford or Cambridge University and
- pathways into Engineering courses, especially for those students that may not be doing the required level of Mathematics.
If you have any questions please feel free to email me at joanne.cupac@spc.nsw.edu.au, or call me on 8705 9255.
Joanne Cupac
Careers Advisor