3a/3b - Churchlands Senior High School

SCHOOL APPRENTICESHIP LINK (SAL) AND SCHOOL BASED TRAINEESHIPS (SBT)Both West Coast Institute of Training and Polytechnic West offer SAL programs in a numberof trade areas. These programs involve the completion of one day per week at TAFE and oneday at work and generally result in the completion of a Certificate II Pre- Apprenticeship.These courses are subject to application and interview.School Based Traineeships involve students being at paid work for one to two days per weekwhile completing a Certificate program. The opportunities for SBT’s are limited and are notsourced by the school unless it is through the District VET coordinator.Please see the Careers Advisor (Mrs Slodecki) for further details and to express an interest.There are no guarantees that courses will run as they are subject to numbers, governmentfunding and availability of teaching staff.Viable courses will be determined late 2011 or at the commencement of the 2012 school year.TAFE ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTSEntrance requirementsIn order to apply for TAFE you need to meet the entrance requirements. These are either alower level qualification, or communication skills and, for some courses, math skills. The levelsof communication or math skills needed are expressed as dots: basic skills, developed skills,well developed skills and highly developed skillsSchool results in most subjects, from years 10 through 12, will be taken into account todetermine your level of communication and math skills. Even though the skills categories arelabeled “communication and math” you can demonstrate your skill levels using subjects otherthan English and Maths.For example, to enter into a Certificate II in Business you could require basic communicationskills and basic maths skills.In some cases entry to a course may require you to meet communication skills only.Moredetailed information about the benchmarks is available on the Training WA web sitehttp://www.trainingwa.wa.gov.au/trainingwa/detcms/portal/CONVERTING AVERAGE MARKS TO AN AUSTRALIAN TERTIARY ADMISSIONS RANK11