YOUR ECHUCA COLLEGE CAREERS AND PATHWAYS – BE SUCCESSFUL!

SOME RECENT CELEBRATIONS & AWESOME EFFORTS IN EC CAREERS AND PATHWAYS:

ECHUCA/MOAMA BEACON AGM AND END OF YEAR CELEBRATION:

Held at the Moama RSL, all our 2021 Beacon Leaders attended and took part in the evening. I was, and everyone should be, extremely proud of these young people, their growth, development and their commitment. Well done team! Thank you for what was an amazing year leaders, you have been a delight and a privilege – Sam Noonan, Finn Palmer, Ryder McMullan, Tegan Lenne, Lily Dalziel, Ellie Smith, Arielle Dolan and Mikayla Johnson.

IMPORTANT: I am looking for applicants for the 2022 Echuca College Beacon Leader roles and you will have received application forms in your Step Up Real Futures class this week. If you are in Year 9 in 2022 please consider applying for this wonderful leadership opportunity. Interviews will be held early next year. Talk to this year’s leaders for inspiration!

‘CHILDCARE & KINDER TEACHING’ EVENT – DEPT OF ED & EC:

Thanks to Dana Twycross and Sam McMasters from the Dept of Education, Jesse from Pink and Blue and Shirley Burrell from Shine Bright for informing our students on the careers and pathways in childcare and kinder teaching event which was being held today. We had a fantastic take up from interested students across the college. Well done to these students for checking their messages and social media posts particularly the Year 9 cohort who really want to discover what is out there beyond school. It has been wonderful to see all these students be so proactive in careers and pathways in the last few weeks, great job – Mystie Bullock, Tegan Lenne, Lily Stewart, Taleka Kinnane Chilcott, Matilda Masters, Gabbey Beveridge, Maddi Riley, Aliyah Rankin, Lauren Dobbie, Ada Bridger King, Zach Smith and Isabel Shillinglaw.

JOB SUCCESSES:

Well done to Ada Bridger King on being a positive and productive student. A visit to Careers and Pathways to discuss things ended up being a chance to talk about casual employment and Ada becoming one of the newest team members at Twisted Science! Congrats Ada. Congratulations also to Georgia Tomlinson who through some excellent active job seeking has secured a full time administrative traineeship with John Deere/Hauesler in Echuca (I think Georgia had 3 interviews at one stage!) and Ned Tomlinson who will commence an apprenticeship next year with Moama Bakery.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Great efforts by Brodie Hartford , Jett Lia, Kyle Peach, Finn Palmer, Joshua Surace, Mitch Hipwell and Gabbey Beveridge to organise their own work experience in the final weeks of school. Jett has completed his and has been offered a chance to complete an SBAT with Thomsons Electrical. Brett Thomson was the business person who interviewed Jett during the Real Futures/Beacon Mock Interviews and was very impressed with him. Jett followed up with Brett and produced a terrific outcome from a relationship built during his year.

Also, a reminder that 2022 VCAL intermediate and senior students should start to think about and organise their work placement arrangements for at least first term next year during these summer holidays – remember, intermediates, you are looking for 1 day a week, and senior students, 2 days a week.

The total number of work experience days for a student must not exceed:

40 days in a school year
10 days during any school term

A Principal can allow a student to undertake work experience for up to 15 days per term, but the total number of days must not exceed 40 days per year.

The total number of structured workplace learning days for a student must not exceed:

40 days during each school year
10 days during each school term

The total number of structured workplace learning days a student may undertake with an employer must not exceed 20 days during any school year.

Things you can do to start organising your work placement:

Check out the CCLLEN career videos on the EC careers and pathways pages – local employers talking about work experience: https://careers.echucacollege.vic.edu.au/custom-page/1
Let friends and family know that you want to do some work experience (they have the best contacts!)
Approach/speak to local employers and ask whether they would be interested in taking you (employers really like it when young people use their initiative and confidence themselves)
Speak with Lorelle in careers and pathways or contact CCLLEN and use the SWL schools portal: https://www.ccllen.com.au/

INDIGENOUS PATHWAY OPPORTUNITIES:

Congratulations and good luck to Anton Atkinson Combe and Alliyah Cooper for applying for the Department of Education’s Marrung Scholarships ($5000 over 2 years), encouraging them to complete Year 11 and 12. We will find out if they are successful in the coming weeks.

Please do not hesitate to contact me through Xuno or via my email lorelle.pearse@education.vic.gov.au to assist you to support your EC student with their career and pathways aspirations. Everyone can be successful!

SPECIAL MENTIONS:

Congratulations to Ella Birtles (Year 10) on her recent selection into the University of Melbourne Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholars Program - Class of 2023. The committee were very impressed by Ella’s academic achievement and commend her on her community involvement and also her career aspirations. Ella was chosen from 1500 applications, so she should be very proud of this accomplishment. As a Kwong Lee Dow (KLD) Young Scholar, Ella will be joining a supportive university community and getting to know other Young Scholars through a tailored program of events and activities over the next two years.

MY CAREER INSIGHTS/YEAR 9 MORRISBY COMPLETION REPORT:

This year 118 of our 150 Year 9 students completed their Morrisby profiles and were interviewed regarding their results that they received in hard copy. The report from DET showed that our Year 9’s at Echuca College had ‘ambitious and creative’ work styles; enjoyed very much an ‘active’ work environment; felt that their learning styles were predominantly ‘practical’; that their interests showed a preference for working in ‘caring for people’ and also ‘work that involved giving advice’. Specialist interest areas showed large numbers in sport and art areas.

Please remember that Morrisby is now accessible to you for life. Looking forward to ALL of next year’s Year 9’s completing their profiles in Real Futures classes.

REMINDERS FROM EC CAREERS AND PATHWAYS:

EC CAREERS AND PATHWAYS PAGES & EC WEEKLY CAREERS NEWSLETTER (FORTNIGHTLY IN 2022):

https://careers.echucacollege.vic.edu.au/

EC ONLINE JOB BOARD:

https://careers.echucacollege.vic.edu.au/custom-page/2

VERY IMPORTANT YEAR 11 & 12 VTAC DATES:

VCE results are released at 7am Thursday December 16 2021

*Please make sure you have paid your VTAC processing fee ($42) - only paid applications will be forwarded to institutions to be considered for an offer.

**(All students in Year 11 and 12 must also register/reregister (even if you registered the previous year) with the Results and ATAR service to receive their results https://resultsandatar.vic.edu.au/results/applicants.htm;)

Change of preference closes December 20 2021 (4pm) and re opens from January 14 2022 (4pm) to January 20 2022 (4pm)
First round offers released on January 14 2022

***Lorelle and representatives from La Trobe University will be available in person (from 11.30 to 1pm appointment must be made via Lorelle) at the college on Thursday and Friday December 16 & 17 for contact and appointments for students and parents. Lorelle will also be available for support with offers and change of preference on Friday January 14 and Monday 16th January at the college and then via email or MS teams.

2021 YEAR 12’S AND EARLY EXITED STUDENTS PHONE CALLS:

A reminder that all 2021 Year 12 students will be contacted early next year to collect their post school destinations. So too will any students who have exited the college prior to completing Year 12 so expect some text or calls to you or your parents. This work is very important and I would certainly appreciate any responses.

EC WORK EXPERIENCE:

Any Echuca College student 15 years or over is able (and very much encouraged) to undertake work experience at any time during the school year (not available during the summer holidays). Please see Lorelle for information and support to organise this really valuable learning opportunity.

May everyone enjoy a most wonderful, safe, happy & healthy Christmas, New Year and summer break. I look forward to supporting students, parents/guardians and staff in 2022. Thank you to all those who have accessed and utilised the careers and pathways service in 2021. I hope your experience has been a positive one. Kind regards Lorelle – Careers and Pathways Coordinator Echuca College.