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Our Year 12 senior students were challenged this year
to raise funds and run an awareness campaign for a
social issue that they felt impacted young people. Our
students decided to focus on building a partnership
with Ozanum House. This partnership involved
students volunteering their time to prepare and serve
meals, and ended with them raising a fantastic $1,700
to assist Ozanum House to support those in need.

Our students found this a truly worthwhile experience
and should be commended for the care and
compassion they have shown throughout the year.
Our Senior students have also shown off their skills
and talents this year in transforming the gardens
surrounding the Gatehouse.
Students have worked in Numeracy and PDS to
Jillian Davis design and landscape the gardens surrounding
Applied Learning Leader the Gatehouse Café and we know that many in our
community will enjoy the fruits of their labour in the
— coming years.

VCAL is an educational pathway with an applied Finally, in WRS our Year 12s participated in Real
learning focus, giving students the chance to Industry Interviews, which involved students applying
complete theory studies while also undertaking for jobs and participating in mock interviews with
hands-on work. Students are given the opportunity community business representatives. This was a
to learn what it is like to be in a workplace and fantastic opportunity for our students to convey just
gain qualifications to secure their chosen pathway have much they have grown during their time in VCAL.
after the completion of Senior School. The feedback they received during this process from
employers was wonderful and we were very proud to
Our Year 11s have been involved in many projects see our students shine in their local community.
including running Mother’s Day stalls, building
billycarts, working in the patch to prepare for As our students look to life after Salesian, they plan
our Rupertswood Harvest, and - perhaps most to complete further studies at TAFE or at a number
memorably - a group of our Year 11s took part in of private providers, some others will be starting
the St Vinnie’s Winter Sleepout to raise awareness employment, or have gained an apprenticeship or
of homelessness. traineeship for 2019.
Our students created a wonderful documentary All of our VCAL students should be congratulated for
throughout this project which was proudly debuted their wonderful achievements and hard work this year,
at our VCAL team building day. This group have and as we farewell our Year 12s we wish them all the
also had many wonderful experiences undertaking best in their chosen pathways, and look forward to an
work placement each term and beginning VET exciting year ahead with our 2019 Year 12 students.
courses both here at Salesian and externally at
TAFE this year, and we look forward to this group
transitioning into their Year 12 VCAL program.

VCAL/VET

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