Are you a shearer, a leather-maker, a tiler or a great pasta-maker with an hour or so on Tuesday, April 9 to share your passion with students?
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Tenterfield High School's careers advisor Helen Clothier is seeking input from talented community members to create interactive experiences with the children, to demonstrate the skills they may require as they pursue careers once they leave school.
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Rather than focus on particular professions (although local professionals are also encouraged to participate with maybe an allocated time to field questions), Mrs Clothier is keen instead to promote the skill sets the students will need for different careers. Those skills may be as generic as organisation, planning and persistence.
Along with the high school students, children from St Joseph's Primary School and The Sir Henry Parkes Memorial, Drake, Jennings, and Mingoola Public Schools will be immersed in a variety of activities, including interactive forensics workshops.
A Case of Discovery (for primary school-aged students) and A Case of Conspiracy (for high schoolers) will present clues from which participants will need to create scenarios and formulate conclusions as to what expired. They will then be encouraged to sit back and reflect on the exercise, to develop their critical thinking.
Outside organisations including the Rural Fire Service, Police, Fire and Rescue will also be onsite with interactive displays and Mrs Clothier is hoping to set up an indigenous section demonstrating skills and incorporating representatives of a mentoring program for indigenous students being run out of Armidale.
There will be an excursion to the school's ag plot for students interested in developing rural skills, and a rock-climbing wall to illustrate the value of determination and achieving goals.
Mrs Clothier said careers will be evolving in the future, and she's keen for the students to develop skill sets which can apply to a range of occupations. She's hopeful that engaging the children early in their school career may motivate them to develop those skill sets.
Anyone who can contribute can contact Mrs Clothier at the school on (02) 6736 1200 or email her at helen.clothier@det.nsw.edu.au.
This careers day wraps up a $20,000 Rural & Remote Career Initiatives grant that the high school received last year. Mrs Clothier has recently secured another $5000 grant, with which she hopes to arrange another excursion for years six and seven students to explore career options, similar to last year's Brisbane experience.
