Tuesday August 10 Lilydale District School hosted a career information morning for the Years 7-13 students.  Students and staff listened to guest speakers reflect on their careers and working life, the role of education, completing courses and the various paths life can take.  After a break we headed to the PAC for an expo where industry and education groups set up booths for students to rove around and ask questions.  This proved very beneficial with many students asking direct questions about career choice and education paths to consider. We had a wide variety of industries including the armed forces, police, forestry and agriculture.  Agriculture/Horticulture was our main focus for the Year 11-13 students who are studying VET Agriculture/Horticulture certificates. The engagement of students was excellent.  Some students were interviewed by ABC radio for the rural segment and spoke really well about their education in Agriculture. Thank you to everyone who helped make the morning a wonderful event.

Here are some feedback notes from stall holders, staff, students and a parent.  Last year I took away the feedback to make 2021 even better.

Liz Stanfield
Career and Life Planning teacher

Great things

Great to see 7-8s involved
Great guest speakers
Great opportunities, experiences
Different learning environment
Chance to chat to students 1:1 and other industries
Great, well organised
Networking for exhibitors
Great student questions
Helpful students
Attentive students
Great biscuits
Great student leader helpers
Good range of booths for information on career choices
Good layout of expo
Students were engaged
Lots of items and information
I had fun
So many apprentice opportunities
Very good, well presented at every stand, a lot of info at each station
It was great
The way they set it all up was good, they were all really nice
Thank you for making time for us, to come down and we see the new things we can learn
It was helping to know what I want to do
Friendly workshop holders
UTAS
Informational  
It was a good experience
Well thought out brochures
Friendly people
The Police
Educational
Very informative
Telling us what we can do in the future, showing us our options
Further education, college, uni, alternative education
The trades, getting into trades info
Learning about the colleges, the people
Lots of engaging activities
Everything
Cool stories
Action stalls : Airforce Cadets
Rural Youth, Forestry
Videos on screens
Little books
Fun choices
Radio interview
Parent : both my boys came home so excited and found everything great and informative

Improvements

Demonstrations
Less give aways
Needs to be bigger
9/10s go first as they have less time to think about their future