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Year 11 & 12 VCAL

On Tuesday 9th of August our Year 11 and 12 VCAL students were lucky enough to take part in the Sharp Group’s Hospitality Immersion Day. 

The day involved mini golf, quizzes, the great wait race, facility tours and lots of treats! 

It was great to hear pathways stories that showed how varied career journeys can be and the opportunities that already exist on our door step. 

A big thankyou to Lyndsay and all the crew at The Sharp Group; @flyingbrickciderco @leuraparkestate and @therangeatcurlewis who provided us with this awesome experience!

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VCAL Salvos City Youth Homelessness Excursion

On Friday August 12, Year 11 VCAL students travelled to Melbourne CBD to participate in the City Youth Homelessness Tour with the Salvation Army.

After they managed to navigate their way from Geelong Station to Bourke Street (and survive the extremely steep Parliament escalator!), they participated in a classroom based workshop where the instructor from the Salvation Army, Grace, spoke about some stifling statistics regarding homelessness and the issues faced by people experiencing homelessness. Students then participated in an activity where they had a scenario and had to explore the issues faced by the person that led to that situation by asking ‘but why?’ to get to the route of the cause.

Students then took part in an hour long walking tour around different points in the CBD where Grace shared stories of people who had experienced homelessness who the Salvos had assisted in some way. She spoke about the importance of people being linked in with services and being supported in either financially, medically or from a wellbeing perspective, to help them access their fundamental human right of safe, long term accommodation.

On conclusion, she encouraged students to understand that homelessness can happen to anyone and is often out of people’s control so reserve judgement but instead use their voice to help call out stereotypes and promote people to seek support. She reiterated that if students are going through homelessness that there are various supports available to them and to seek out a trusted adult as their first port of call.

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81 Science

Students of 81 Science creating their mad molecule models! Chemistry fun.