Career stories
Career stories are a useful narrative describing the process and results of implementing a program. Career stories are a great way to focus on the experience of the students and demonstrate how the program has been used successfully to enhance student career learning outcomes. It is important to recognise challenges, how these challenges were overcome and what positives came out of them. The main purpose of these career stories is to highlight and showcase successful career education and career learning practices.
In the School to Work report many careers advisers indicated they would like to share ideas, hear about the programs other schools deliver, their achievements and available careers resources.
Stories of school's career initiatives
Skills 21 is an outstanding program for Stage 5 students. Students obtain their ROSA while engaging in workplace opportunities gaining valuable transferable skills.
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Sourcing workplace learning opportunities for students. Coaching with students to gain workplace experience, skills and confidence.
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The purpose of the project was to increase student participation and engagement through explicitly designed activities which develop student awareness in career education, lifelong learning, skill development and enhanced wellbeing. We will develop sustainable activities and resources throughout K-6 which are inclusive of the appropriate phases of learning written in the K-12 Career Development Framework.
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The Aurora College career carnival would include practical career-related events, activities, workshops, incursions, excursions & interactive displays.
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We liaised with our 3 main Feeder Primary Schools to try and arrange a suitable date for our Alstonville High School (AHS) Careers Team to visit Term 4 and deliver an introductory Careers Presentation and Activity.
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An innovative careers initiative designed for students in Years 5 and 6 to interview local community members to gain insight into their career journey. The finding can be used to create career resources for primary and secondary students.
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Rural and Remote K-12 Career Education Initiative
The Rural and Remote K-12 Career Education Initiative assists schools in embedding career education into their curriculum. The aim of the initiative is to:
develop innovative and creative career education processes that will strengthen the smooth transition from primary to secondary school.
raise student expectations and pathways into further study and/or training.
provide teachers with targeted professional learning.
- establish strong relationships with the community
Barham High School is a small, rural, and remote school situated on the Murray River. Enriched by its location on the ancestral lands of the Barapa Barapa nation, the school serves students from both New South Wales and Victoria. Drawing its student body from a network of feeder schools in Koondrook, Murrabit, Moulamein, Wakool/Burraboi, and Bunaloo primary schools, Barham High School fosters a close-knit community ethos. Presently, the school hosts approximately 160 students, with projections indicating a steady increase in enrolment over the next four years.
Barham High School is well resourced with every learning space equipped with state-of-the-art technology designed to display relevant content to the students. Emphasising the significance of technology in education, the school prioritises accessibility for students, providing two fully equipped computer labs with 50 desktop computers and over 100 laptops. Our modern facilities encompass a sprawling 5-acre agricultural farm on campus for hands-on learning opportunities.
Industry Links is a multi-faceted program linking the school and students to local industries to increase their knowledge, assist businesses in selecting employees, and increase connectedness.
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The Go Getters achieved their goals of revamping the secondary cola area while exposing students to career opportunities in the construction and landscaping industry. Read how Bulahdelah staff, students, and the community transformed an unused garden area into a work of art for the use of the entire school community.
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Discover how Coffs Harbour Senior College improved the transition from year 10 to year 11.
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Building student aspirations through Stage 5-6 Transition and career exploration and improving whole school awareness of careers education.
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To develop films of alumni of Dungog High school and to teach/mentor primary students how to create films of alumni of their own school.
These films will be stored on a website which all the participating schools can access to use and embed within their teaching programs. This can be utilised across curriculum to create connection, awareness and conversations about career pathways and progression within subject areas.
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Discover how Eden Marine High School found success in a COVID restricted environment through innovation and perseverance to secure School Based Apprenticeships and Traineeships (SBATs) for their students.
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Henry Kendall High School is one of four P-TECH schools on the NSW Central Coast. IBM P-TECH Partnership is a collaboration between education, industry, and the community. The educational model offers secondary school students an industry supported pathway into Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) qualifications with workplace experiences.
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Kurri Kurri High School developed a school within a school called Studio School. Targeted at Stage 6, students are guided by their learning advisors. The curriculum delivered online allows students to work at their own pace on projects relating to their choice.
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Watch Peel High School’s fabulous Eco-fest news report of their environmental learning workshop designed for disengaged high school students, who are now leading the initiative.
Quirindi High School hosted a careers expo attended by all student’s year 7 to 12 to expose them to universities and various career pathways by connecting students to local businesses and training services.
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The Ulladulla High School Rural and Remote K-12 Career Education Initiative comprised three distinct elements. Our Year 10 students prepared engaging activities to deliver to the Year 6 students to support with the transition from Primary to Secondary School. We had a group of Year 9 and Year 10 students form a “Trade Team” to work on small construction projects over a three-day time frame. Finally, a group of Year 8 students worked in teams to deliver a fun, careers related activity to Year 5 students from partner Primary Schools.
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Year 10 Enrichment Program started as a one off program to finish Stage 5 productively after assessments. The program is a valuable week long program concluding the completion of junior years and recognising the transition into senior school. It contains three main components; YOU, YOUR SCHOOL & YOUR COMMUNITY. The program is now embedded into the school culture.
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Share your story or your school’s story
If you would like to share an area of your school’s career education program, email the Career and Workplace Learning team at careerworkplacelearning@det.nsw.edu.au
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