By Mrs Alison Porter, Program Leader Student Pathways

Noteworthy items:

• A local business is offering an interested Year 10 or 11 student a position as a school-based trainee in tyre-fitting
• Permission forms for students wanting to complete the White Card Course should have been returned
• Reminder that Year 12 students interested in university in 2020 should be attending upcoming university open days and considering early entry programs.

General Construction White Card

The College has offered Year 10, 11 & 12 students the opportunity to participate in the ‘Work Safely in the Construction Industry’ course.  Successful completion of the course is awarded with a ‘Construction White Card’.  This card & course are mandatory requirements under Queensland's Workplace Health & Safety Regulation 2008 for all persons wishing to carry out construction type work or frequenting a construction site. Therefore, any students wanting to complete work experience, obtain employment or secure a traineeship or apprenticeship in a trade involving construction or work on a construction site, will need to have successfully completed the accredited course and obtained their ‘white card’.  Such trades that would require the card could include structural steel erection, carpentry, bricklaying, concreting, plumbing, electrical, tiling and painting etc. We are offering the white card course to students on the 31^st of May at a cost of $80 per student. A letter has been provided to interested students. Final numbers will be tallied early this week so any students that have not returned the permission form will need to do so quickly. Please note the course may not go ahead if we do not meet the required number of participants for the course.

Rural and Agricultural Pathways

Students interested in rural and agricultural pathways and careers should consider attending the Ag Inspirations career awareness program currently on offer through AgForce Queensland. The program aims to raise awareness of the wide variety of career options within agriculture in areas such as biosecurity, agronomy, robotic farming, banking, purchasing, transport and logistics. It will involve students from Years 10-12 visiting multiple enterprises; spending about two hours at each location learning about the business and the skills required for the various tasks involved. The program will run over three days, 22^nd to 24^th of July. Information regarding this will be

provided to students. Those students who may be interested, should let me know as soon as possible and register their interest as places in the program are limited.

Year 12 and University

Year 12 students interested in attending university have been advised to start researching possible university courses to which they might like to apply. The QTAC (Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre) is a great place to start the research. The QTAC course guide can be found at www.qtac.edu.au (course search). Part of this research should include planning for the open days at the universities in which students are interested. Information and dates can be found at www.qtac.edu.au (courses and institutions) and www.acwcareers.com (calendar of events). Students have also been provided with an early entry guide for universities. This guide outlines many of the early entry programs universities offer that allow students to apply now for entry into university courses in 2020.

Careers Newsletter

A much more in-depth careers newsletter is emailed regularly to students. This newsletter includes details of state-wide careers events and open days, as well as providing information about tertiary institutions and careers and pathways resources. If parents would like to view the extended careers newsletter it is also available on our school careers webpage at www.acwcareers.com