20 Sep 2019
Last Friday, 20th September 2019 we celebrated Aspirations Day in the primary. The day focused around what job our students want to do when they leave school. They all dressed up as the occupation they want be when they leave school.
What is Aspirations Day?
Once a year we are going to expose our students to a variety of jobs so that they can create a pathway into employment. We will have people from a variety of jobs speak to our students about what skills are needed to do their job, what steps they have to take to attain employment in that field and what their job entails.
Our purpose is to inspire our students to work hard in school in order to attain their dream occupation.
How? This year we arranged a representative to talk to our students from a variety of agencies such as the NSW Ambulance, NBN News, Hart Rural, Doctors Surgery, Assets Management, Fire Brigade and Police.
We would like to thank Trish who is a Paramedic from the NSW Ambulance, Constable Andrew Wainwright from Manilla Police Station, Jacob Hawley from Hart Rural, Alison Brand who is our Assets Manager from the NSW Department of Education, Dr John Kelly, Manilla Farmer Angus Faulks, Isobella Evans from NBN and John Martin and Paul Gray from the NSW Fire Brigade.
Why? In our experience, we have found students work well in class when they have a purpose / goal to work towards. When our children have a clear picture of what occupation they want to pursue, it provides them with an incentive to work harder, a guideline of what subjects they need to study, what marks are needed and a work ethic that will make them attractive to an employer.
Why K-6? We link our secondary students to outside agencies and businesses regularly throughout the year. Our aim is to ‘plant the seed for employment’ much earlier in the primary years.
Our students also enjoyed a canteen meal deal (thank you to our volunteers for your cooking), costume Parade and a Daytime Disco.