Construction
Hospitality
Information Technology
Part-Time Traineeships

Shoalhaven High School has 8 keen and enthusiastic VET staff that are qualified to deliver the following framework courses.

In 2002, three Framework courses will be operating – Construction, Hospitality and Information Technology catering for over 100 students.

Shoalhaven High is innovative in its approach to VET as is evident by the following initiatives.

Construction students spend the majority of their class time “on the job”. Complete with mobile workshop, they climb aboard the 15 seater bus (owned by Peter Hill) and travel to the day’s job. Projects undertaken in 2001 were:

• Culburra Surf Club – assisting with the building & painting of the new club house.
• Shoalhaven High School – building many bench seats around the school for student use.

The number of students choosing Construction has doubled for 2002, no doubt due to the unusual approach Peter has taken in teaching this framework course.

Hospitality, always a popular course has tripled their numbers for 2002 with three classes operating in the Preliminary year. This may be due to the fully equipped commercial kitchen that was installed in 2001.

Hospitality students regularly take part in the annual Worldskills competition and have achieved considerable success.

• 2002 – Creativity Award
• 2001 – Creativity & OH&S awards
• 2000 – Ist and 2nd in regional competition

Work placement in Hospitality has seen a partnership grow between the school and 2 local businesses – Worrigee House and the Sportsman’s club. Students go out to Work Placement two at a time throughout the year, spending one week at each business. In this way, interruptions to school are kept to a minimum and both work places have a consistent approach to students. Students can also pick up extra experience and work placement hours by volunteering to work at other functions held by both work places.

Information Technology is now in its fourth year and will operate two classes in 2002. Students operate the IT “HELP” desk for the school. They are attached to faculties around the school where they gain valuable “on the job” experience solving a variety of tasks and freeing up the computer coordinator from more mundane tasks.

IT students have been involved in Worldskills for the past 2 years with the following achievements.

• 2002 – 2nd place
• 2001 – 2nd and 4th place
• 2000 – 2nd place

Shoalhaven high has 4 computer labs – Two of these are at Industry standard and each operates on a different platform – Mac and PC.

Part-Time Traineeships
2002 will see Shoalhaven High School host the first school based part-time traineeship in the Shellharbour district. Greg has worked as a sports assistant at the school for the past three years will take on Sports Administration under the guidance of Lez Freeman. Lez is one of the directors of Millennium Events that have organised many Australian events including the Olympic Marathon and Australian Triathlons.

Shoalhaven High is in a unique position to offer this traineeship as Lez Freeman brings with him a wealth of expertise that would be hard to find elsewhere.

Enquiries to Sheryle Milton Vet Coordinator 44218022 during School hours.

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