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Community Partnership Directory
Find over 150 youth related services that support young people and the work of schools across the Blue Mnts, Hawkesbury and Penrith region including employment, training, counselling, crisis accomodation, and more.
Job Testing for Students
Do you want to prepare your engineering and metals students, in years 10 to12, for the world of work?
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Apprenticeship Clubs
The development of Apprenticeship Clubs in schools represents one part of the Western Sydney Apprenticeships Strategy.
What is a Partnership?
Many students learn better by doing. By partnering with industry schools can make projects a fun way students and business can work and learn together. It could be fixing a car, or researching a business challenge... Our role is to form partnerships between schools, parents and the the business community.
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Work Placement Online with Pathways Connect
Pathways Connect is an online system to manage Work Placements. Teachers can view the calendar and request a week for Work Placements. New Students can register and give us preferences and information so we can seek out the best opportunities for you, and create the legal paperwork you will need before you meet up with your Host Employer.
Free driving lessons for learner drivers
The Australian Government has committed $17 million over five years to develop the Keys 2 Drive program on a national basis.
2012 WorldSkills Australia National Competition, Sydney
The nation’s biggest skills showcase is coming to Sydney!
Improving the transition of school leavers with a disability
An invitation to a networking afternoon tea and NDCO resource kit launch
Master Chefs at RAAF Base
Blaxland High School year 12 VET hospitality students, Sally Rozema and Amber Holmes are two of many students, who are lucky enough to complete their mandatory hospitality ‘work placements’ in such a supportive and instructive setting as the officers mess kitchen at Glenbrook RAAF Base.
WOW Comes To Western Sydney Students
The Department of Education and Communities Western Sydney Region have partnered with Foundation for Young Australians (FYA), Penrith PCYC, Penrith Panthers, Penrith City Council and Mul-T-Security Penrith to deliver an initiative of FYA, Worlds of Work – WOW.
School to Work
A good friend of ours here at Schools Industry Partnership Michelle Baillie has recently taken up a new position with the National Rugby League as Manager of the School to Work Program, a program developed to create pathways to successful careers for Aboriginal students in years 11 and 12 in participating schools across Western Sydney.
ANZ Young Entrepreneurs in Western Sydney Schools
ANZ Young Entrepreneurs partnership was brokered by The Smith Family Partnership Broker team and successfully piloted by ANZ Managers and Youth Connections in the Illawarra region in 2011. Schools Industry Partnership in alliance with BREED see great potential for expanding the model across Western Sydney with the goal of assisting young people attain Year 12 or equivalent qualifications and reach their full educational and social potential.
