Years 10 -12 Update

CAREERS UPDATE

With Term 1 coming to a close, it’s still all systems go for the Careers Department as so many students across the Goldsworthy Campus are engaged in activities directly relating to their chosen pathway.

There are 20 students currently undertaking a School Based Apprenticeship or Traineeship (SBAT) this year in industries such as Early Childhood Education and Care, Warehousing, Allied Health Services, Education Support, Commercial Biscuit Production and Business Administration  - just to name a few.   They attend independent training and a work place every week as they work towards a nationally recognised Cert II or Cert III qualification.  For more information about what SBATs are  - please visit the Geelong region SBAT website :

An upside of the COVID -19 pandemic is that organisations have had to think of new ways to get their news and messages out to people, and this has included all the Partners, Universities and TAFEs that work closely with NBC Careers Department.  As a result – there have been many webinars and information sessions offered on line and these are regularly advertised on the Compass newsfeed, and all parents and students are reminded to regularly check their compass feeds to see what is on offer.

An example of what has been available in Term 1 includes:

• Deakin University - course information sessions
• ATSI students interested in RMIT University
• The Smith Family - Career Mentor Program
• Victoria University - Have a VU student ring you to talk about life at Uni
• ACU Webinar- Entry and Pathway Options

A real focus of the Careers Department for 2021 will be getting students excited about Work Experience, and so far 2  have sourced their own employers and will be undertaking a placement very soon. Work experience Program is where students attend a real workplace, are treated as an employee, receive an income for their work, and gain a reference letter to be used in their resumes for future job applications.  

Here is Farzana, Year 10 completing her on-line Safe@Work training in preparation of her going out to work very soon.  

Good luck Farzana.

Please contact Ms Joanne Parcell : Careers Manager & Practitioner, Goldsworthy Campus  for jobs, careers and pathway queries. 

Harmony at Goldsworthy

Our outstanding community of multicultural students and staff led an inspiring assembly to launch the Northern Bay College Harmony celebrations. 

Every aspect of the ceremony highlighted the capacity of our students to show dignity, joy, peer support and overcome fear to share their cultures and stories with others. 

We must all be proud of their achievements and community leadership.

VCAL NEWS

During this Term Senior VCAL students Cooper, Bleh, Sarah and Teniesha

investigated the issue of ageism in society.  

The students decided to take action and organise a volunteer experience for their class at Baptcare Coast Haven Community. The aim of the experience was to gain a greater understanding of the needs and issues faced by the community members and to facilitate activities designed to improve wellbeing.

Here are some insightful reflections from the students:

I really enjoyed the experience it open up my eyes and really changed my perspective. I enjoyed talking to Gary he was very genuine and reminded me of a primary school teacher I had. Also it was pretty cool hearing their views, growing up and life advice. It felt like hearing from my own pops passing down his wisdom. At the start there was some pressure since it was a new environment but they were very welcoming and a few chit chats later it felt like I've been there many times. I felt like I achieved a lot today and got out of it more than I expected. It was an amazing first time experience, connecting with them and learning from them. I wonder about the others that I didn't talk to, what characteristic do they have? – Bleh Htoo

Today we walked to the baptcare aged care center to ask questions and to get to know and speak to the elderly. I enjoyed getting to see the facilities and the staff the aged care center has to offer, and also getting to meet and talk to the elderly people about their past, what they enjoyed, lessons they learnt and advice to pass down to the youth. I also enjoyed seeing how the facility was run with set timetables showing different events such as “beer (cordial) pong” and also showing a note when "nbc students" were coming to visit. Carmel was the carer at the time we were there and she ran them through a trivia question sheet, showed them exercises and stretches and made them morning tea. Cooper and I spoke to an elderly man name Forrest, from Boston America, he had told us that he had lived in Australia for 16 years, his favourite moments growing up were meeting and dating people, and his favourite place he's visited was Alaska, he said it was a beautiful place. He also had a really strong american accent. After morning tea we played a few games of bingo and I helped out a man named Joe. I achieved more out of it than I thought, by getting comfortable with the elderly and speaking with them about their lives when they were younger.

Thank you to everyone who bought a sausage or drink at Bunnings last weekend. Sunday was VCAL Fundraising and Saturday was the Early Learning Centre.  We were raising money for our Enterprise projects. 

Stay tuned for an update on their small enterprises - cafe, furniture restoration, beauty and craft products, coming soon.

VCAL Intermediate 

Harmony Day Community Projects

The Intermediate VCAL group organised a Harmony Day event, on Wednesday 17th March 2021. 

Seven VCAL Intermediate groups contributed to the day by making traditional foods from different cultures and selling them. One group managed the collection of money for the cultural/ casual dress day. Another had activities educating the students about some aspects of the Aboriginal culture. Three groups cooked traditional foods. Yet another group arranged for the viewing of the film, “Skin” showing the perspective of a young girl who was born to white parents but was dark skinned and her journey. The last group assisted with the decorations and set up for the VCAL Centre on the day. 

The Intermediate VCAL team raised $368.30 which will be donated to The Smith Family. 

We are grateful to our school community for your support. Thank you, VCAL students.

Volunteer Days

During term one the VCAL foundation class has been fortunate enough to have two volunteering opportunities to give back and learn more about our community and environment. The first excursion, took the students down to Torquay where they volunteered for the Great Ocean Road Coastal Committee. While the day was fairly warm and humid the students gave it their all, cutting out an invasive species of wattle before moving the branches to the truck where it was later mulched. It was amazing to see the drastic change from the before photos compared with what was left. The students were again given the opportunity to volunteer their time with Friends of Cowies Creek group. Students learnt about the local landscape, in particular about the oldest tree within the area, Cabbage moths and Yellow-tailed black cockatoos. The students also used their time picking up rubbish, finding some treasures amongst the trees. 

The learning from these opportunities is invaluable building student’s knowledge of different employment opportunities, the environment around them and how to care for it, as well as building community connections. The foundation class look forward to more volunteer opportunities.   

VCE Update

Recently Year 11 Ancient History students have been researching cuneiform, the first writing system developed. To understand the process we made styluses by sanding down bamboo chopsticks, then use them to create our own replica ancient stone tablets out of modelling clay. On their tablets they depicted the evolution of the writing system from simple symbols to much more complex characters, and also wrote their name in cuneiform!

Year 10 Update

Maths

Recently Year 10 General Math students have been completing a measurement unit. To understand the idea of surface area and composite shapes, students created 3d models of a Cube, Rectangular Prism, Triangular Prism, Octahedron, Square Base Pyramid, Cylinder and a Cone. Being able to identify the different shapes that make up the 3d object helped students to select the right formulas to calculate the surface area.

Bake Shop

The year 10 Bakeshop class have been busy over the last few weeks planning and producing their own muffin recipes and bread recipes. There were some amazing and unique flavours used including, green tea, beetroot, chorizo, onion, bacon, peach, pear and of course some delicious chocolate. Check out some of the finished products here.

Textiles

Over term 1 our year 10 Textiles students have designed and produced amazing original bags, created from their own tie-dyed fabric.

 Emma Horne and Ricki O'Shannessy

Goldsworthy Campus Assistant Principals