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<strong>News</strong>letter Number 2 March 4, 2011<br />
YEAR 10 WORK EXPERIENCE<br />
A reminder to parents and students that this year’s Work Experience<br />
is from June 27th to July 1st, the last week of Term 2. Competition<br />
for quality jobs is fierce and we strongly encourage all students<br />
who have not commenced the process to decide on a type of job<br />
and put together an application as soon as possible. The early bird<br />
catches the worm and we would love every student to secure a<br />
position of employment by the end of Term 1. Contact Mrs Allison<br />
if you have any queries. Students are reminded that they also<br />
need to have completed the safe@work modules for Occupational<br />
Health and Safety. Work placement is not possible without these<br />
completed tests.<br />
MIP’S INTERVIEWS<br />
Interviews of Year 10 students have commenced and each student<br />
will hopefully have a career pathway plan mapped out by the end<br />
of Term 2. In Commerce, all students will undertake a careers focused<br />
module that will equip them to make sound choices for their<br />
VCE/VCAL studies for 2012.<br />
We warmly welcome Mr Mike Hilt a very experienced careers counsellor<br />
who will be conducting the MIP’s interviews during 2011, as<br />
well as supporting staff in other ways in the careers office.<br />
ADF Technical Scholarships<br />
Applications are now open for Year 11 or 12 students interested in<br />
a technical trade, to apply for a scholarship worth $2,000-$3,000.<br />
Conditions do apply. See Mrs Allison for details or visit the ADF<br />
website.<br />
CAREER EXPOS COMING<br />
If you want to obtain careers information from a large variety of<br />
sources at one location, Careers Expos are a great way to go. Several<br />
of these are held each year. Find out about university and TAFE<br />
courses, independent colleges, and so on. Coming up:<br />
• The National Careers & Employment Expo will run Fri 25 - Sat 26<br />
Mar at the Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre<br />
• The ‘Age’ VCE and Careers Expo 2011 will run Fri 6 - Sun 8 May at<br />
Caulfield Racecourse, Station St, Caulfield<br />
• The Eastland Future Options Careers Expo will be at 6-8pm,<br />
Tues 2 Aug at Eastland SC<br />
• Art and Design Discovery Day Thursday 21 April Swinburne Uni<br />
Prahran campus<br />
University of Melbourne Veterinary Science Open Day<br />
When: Sunday 27 March 2011<br />
Where: University of Melbourne Veterinary Hospital 250 Princes<br />
Hwy, Werribee<br />
Time: 10am - 3pm<br />
Australian International Airshow and Aerospace and Defence<br />
Exposition 2011<br />
1-6 March Geelong Victoria www.amdfa.com.au/careers.<br />
Student information day Friday March 4th at Avalon. Phone: 9889<br />
0966<br />
Page 6<br />
Engineering Careers Expo<br />
Maria Allison and Helen Doherty<br />
Careers Coordinators<br />
Lote<br />
Bitche Homestay Report 2010-2011<br />
<strong>RSC</strong> STUDENTS<br />
LYCEE TEYSSIER HOST STUDENTS<br />
Samantha Hickman Anne Schaeffer<br />
Kimberly Henley<br />
Mathilde Brunner<br />
Paige Sytema<br />
Claire Haas<br />
Cyndy Li<br />
Julia Speder<br />
Emily Treeby<br />
Jennifer Vogel<br />
Madeline Mackey<br />
Marine Hamm<br />
Verity Boyd<br />
Camille Dorscherner<br />
On the 27th December 2010, seven of the students learning French<br />
for year ten (now eleven) began an experience of a lifetime, on an<br />
exchange to our sister school, Lycée Teyssier, in Bitche, France.<br />
The students, Samantha Hickman, Kimberly Henley, Cyndy Li, Emily<br />
Treeby, Madeline Mackey, Verity Boyd and Paige Sytema, were all<br />
very lucky to be participating in a French exchange, in which we<br />
were able to live with a French family for a month, and attend<br />
school with them.<br />
We flew with Singapore Airlines, who were very helpful, and guided<br />
us the whole way to Frankfurt, also helping with our stopover in<br />
Singapore. When we finally arrived in Frankfurt airport we were<br />
very excited to meet our French families.<br />
After we landed in Frankfurt, Germany, we met our families that we<br />
would be staying with for the next month.<br />
Our host sisters, Julia Speder, Marine Hamm, Jennifer Vogel, Camille<br />
Dorscherner, Mathilde Brunner, Anne Schaeffer and Claire Haas,<br />
and their families, took us in as part of their own family, doing the<br />
things that a normal French family would do, like shopping, visiting<br />
famous places, eating French cuisine, and most importantly, speaking<br />
French.<br />
Throughout the stay, we improved our French immensely, and even<br />
attended school for four weeks.<br />
While at school, we attended normal classes with our French sisters<br />
for the first week, in many subjects, ranging from science, to English,<br />
to history, and even German and Latin.<br />
For the following three weeks, we were able to have our own timetable,<br />
and attend special classes that were scheduled just for us. In<br />
these classes we had a range of teachers, who each taught us different<br />
key parts of French, and helped us a lot. We also learnt a lot<br />
of new phrases, vocabulary and everyday French sayings that are<br />
popular amongst students our age.<br />
While many of the families did different things, every one of us<br />
managed to go to Paris, which was an amazing experience for everybody,<br />
and everyone saw “La Tour Eiffel”, and other famous landmarks.<br />
Some of the other places we were lucky enough to see were<br />
places like Germany, Strasbourg, Metz, Amsterdam and Sarreguem-
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