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“They are so fired up by the proposal; it’s been amazing,” she said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, students have also started training to act as digital mentors for older residents at the local library in a partnership with The Laurels.<\/p>\n
Everitt said the idea sprang from some older library users mentioning that they often struggled with technology.<\/p>\n
“They (The Laurels) want to teach all of our students how to help them when that happens,” she said.<\/p>\n
“So they can be in the library and when people come in they can … show them how to do these things, because obviously our students are very tech savvy and some of our older population less so.”<\/p>\n
Students will be present at the library during term 3.<\/p>\n
Finally, the school’s second annual careers expo is set for 1 June and dovetails with their Work Related Skills subject, which is Everitt’s specialty.<\/p>\n
She said while students will attend official expos in Melton and the Victorian Careers Expo in Melbourne, the school-based event will be more personal and will feature local people actually working in featured careers being present to talk to them.<\/p>\n
Builders, police, electricians, healthcare workers, automotive mechanics and others were involved last year and will be present once again.<\/p>\n
“It’s a smaller setting and these are real people, so instead of recruiters that they’re speaking to … they can ask real questions,” Everitt said.<\/p>\n
“It’s just a really successful way of those students getting to meet those people locally that do these real jobs.<\/p>\n
“Last year a couple of our students ended up with work experience off the back of it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
INDIE School Bacchus Marsh year 11 students are leading the way in revitalising a community garden at the local neighbourhood house. And that’s only one of the activities they are involved in during term 2 and the remainder of this school year. They’ll also be acting as digital mentors at the local library to help […]<\/p>\n