St John the Evangelist Catholic High School Nowra eNewsletter

CAREERS NEWS

INTERVIEWERS REQUIRED FOR MOCK INTERVIEWS

We are conducting a Mock Interview Day for our Year 11 students on Monday 23 September. This is a great opportunity for our students to experience the reality of preparing for and presenting themselves at an interview for potential employment.
We are currently sourcing parents and other members of the community with experience in interviewing who may be willing to donate their time to interview a series of students on this day at our school. Interviews will be 15 minutes each and the day will be in three main sessions: 8.40am to 11.10am, 12.00 to 1.45pm and 2.00pm to 2.45 pm, as we need to interview around 150 on this day any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Please contact Mrs. Carla Hill on 4423 1666 or hillc05@dow.catholic.edu.au

YEAR 10 WORK EXPERIENCE

Applications are now open for Shoalhaven City Council work experience in many interesting vocations to be conducted from 9 December to 13 December, 2019. Click here to apply.

UNIVERSITY EARLY ENTRY

UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY- Early offer Year 12 (E12) Scheme : The Early Offer Year 12 (E12) Scheme is now open via UAC's Schools Recommendations Schemes (SRS). The E12 Scheme is available to students who have experienced financial disadvantage during their time at school and demonstrate the potential to succeed at the University of Sydney. Successful applicants receive conditional early entry with lower minimum ATAR requirements, in addition to a $5950 scholarship to support their transition to University study. Click here for further details.

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND: Direct Early entry applications are now open, scholaships also available. Click here for further details.

UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG: Early admission opens 1st August. At lunchtime on Thursday 1st August a guest speaker presented information on the application process and the things that have changed since last year. For more information visit UOW website by clicking here.

ENGINEERING WORKSHOPS @ MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY

Macquarie University are holding workshops open to all Year 7-10 students interested in Engineering on Friday 27 September. Please click here for further details.

Students who are sitting their HSC in 2020 are invited to apply for a placement with the Engineering Summer School from 9 - 13 December. The Engineering Summer School has 4 reserved early bird places which can be held until booking opens to the public, so that our students can be preferenced. Click here for further information .

Students interested in these opportunities are to please see Mr Coulson-Knight.

POSITIONS VACANT

Applications for 2020 position in the following areas are available now:

Trainee air traffic controller, electrical apprenticeship, electrical mechanic apprenticeship and apprentice IT industry. Contact Mrs Hill for further details.

LOCAL CASUAL WORK AVAILABLE FOR JUNIORS

Nowra Fresh are currently seeking Junior Staff (Ages 14-17years) for customer service positions working after school, weekends and holidays.
Contact Daniel Sennitt at Nowra Fresh to register your interest.dsennitt@nowrafresh.com

YEAR 10 BUSINESS REVIEW

St John's Year 10 students thoroughly enjoyed their final days of Term 2 participating in the High School's Annual Careers Week "My Business at SJE".

During the week, students met with their teams and were given a range of activities to complete to help develop employability skills such as communication, collaboration, taking initiative and problem solving skills. This resulted in the careful planning and collaborating with peers to create a business concept based on running a cafe.

Through a visit to the University of Wollongong Career Expo, students were informed about business and employability skills, learning from guest speakers, including Kangaroo Valley Eggs and Jaffa Designworx.

Students put their learning into action, working in groups to create a company name, branding, marketing, shopfront display, pricing structure, signature dish, video resumes, job descriptions, 30 second commercials, trade displays, full business reports and oral presentations.

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The concepts and creativity presented by students were outstanding and exceptionally clever! Whilst students were drawn to the ice-cream giveaways at 'Papa Muirs Ice Cream', the concept presented by 'Young Mugs' to pose as rappers selling snoopdogs (hot dogs), Ice-T (Iced Tea), J-coke, A$AP Rocky Road, Eninem Cookies (M & M cookies) and Chris Brownies was well executed.

It was wonderful to see such variety of exhibitions, with students incorporating various cultures and lifestyles from French cuisine in the 'Bonne Journee Cafe' to classic American themed 'Joe's Diner', 'Herbal Hyppies', surf culture in 'The Shack', and a colour themed cafe, 'The Orange Tie'.

One of everyone's best loved cooks was not forgotten, with 'Nan's Kitchen' and 'Tea with Nanna' each providing a lovely selection of tea and baked goods, alongside 'Shake n Bake' and 'Rise n Grnd'.

Chocolate, Milk and sweets were plentiful with 'Milk me up!', 'Milk 'n' Co', 'Choc-a-lot' and 'Jaucks Goodness' each presenting an appetising display.

Students and staff thoroughly enjoyed the event, nominating their favourite business in a secret voting ballot. Overall the winners of the week were;

Following the success of the event, there is little doubt, St John's will be producing some of the future's finest entrepreneurs!

Ms. Carla Hill

Careers Advisor