RSC News - Ringwood Secondary College

Newsletter Number 2 March 4, 2011
YEAR 10 WORK EXPERIENCE
A reminder to parents and students that this year’s Work Experience
is from June 27th to July 1st, the last week of Term 2. Competition
for quality jobs is fierce and we strongly encourage all students
who have not commenced the process to decide on a type of job
and put together an application as soon as possible. The early bird
catches the worm and we would love every student to secure a
position of employment by the end of Term 1. Contact Mrs Allison
if you have any queries. Students are reminded that they also
need to have completed the safe@work modules for Occupational
Health and Safety. Work placement is not possible without these
completed tests.
MIP’S INTERVIEWS
Interviews of Year 10 students have commenced and each student
will hopefully have a career pathway plan mapped out by the end
of Term 2. In Commerce, all students will undertake a careers focused
module that will equip them to make sound choices for their
VCE/VCAL studies for 2012.
We warmly welcome Mr Mike Hilt a very experienced careers counsellor
who will be conducting the MIP’s interviews during 2011, as
well as supporting staff in other ways in the careers office.
ADF Technical Scholarships
Applications are now open for Year 11 or 12 students interested in
a technical trade, to apply for a scholarship worth $2,000-$3,000.
Conditions do apply. See Mrs Allison for details or visit the ADF
website.
CAREER EXPOS COMING
If you want to obtain careers information from a large variety of
sources at one location, Careers Expos are a great way to go. Several
of these are held each year. Find out about university and TAFE
courses, independent colleges, and so on. Coming up:
• The National Careers & Employment Expo will run Fri 25 - Sat 26
Mar at the Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre
• The ‘Age’ VCE and Careers Expo 2011 will run Fri 6 - Sun 8 May at
Caulfield Racecourse, Station St, Caulfield
• The Eastland Future Options Careers Expo will be at 6-8pm,
Tues 2 Aug at Eastland SC
• Art and Design Discovery Day Thursday 21 April Swinburne Uni
Prahran campus
University of Melbourne Veterinary Science Open Day
When: Sunday 27 March 2011
Where: University of Melbourne Veterinary Hospital 250 Princes
Hwy, Werribee
Time: 10am - 3pm
Australian International Airshow and Aerospace and Defence
Exposition 2011
1-6 March Geelong Victoria www.amdfa.com.au/careers.
Student information day Friday March 4th at Avalon. Phone: 9889
0966
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Engineering Careers Expo
Maria Allison and Helen Doherty
Careers Coordinators
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Bitche Homestay Report 2010-2011
RSC STUDENTS
LYCEE TEYSSIER HOST STUDENTS
Samantha Hickman Anne Schaeffer
Kimberly Henley
Mathilde Brunner
Paige Sytema
Claire Haas
Cyndy Li
Julia Speder
Emily Treeby
Jennifer Vogel
Madeline Mackey
Marine Hamm
Verity Boyd
Camille Dorscherner
On the 27th December 2010, seven of the students learning French
for year ten (now eleven) began an experience of a lifetime, on an
exchange to our sister school, Lycée Teyssier, in Bitche, France.
The students, Samantha Hickman, Kimberly Henley, Cyndy Li, Emily
Treeby, Madeline Mackey, Verity Boyd and Paige Sytema, were all
very lucky to be participating in a French exchange, in which we
were able to live with a French family for a month, and attend
school with them.
We flew with Singapore Airlines, who were very helpful, and guided
us the whole way to Frankfurt, also helping with our stopover in
Singapore. When we finally arrived in Frankfurt airport we were
very excited to meet our French families.
After we landed in Frankfurt, Germany, we met our families that we
would be staying with for the next month.
Our host sisters, Julia Speder, Marine Hamm, Jennifer Vogel, Camille
Dorscherner, Mathilde Brunner, Anne Schaeffer and Claire Haas,
and their families, took us in as part of their own family, doing the
things that a normal French family would do, like shopping, visiting
famous places, eating French cuisine, and most importantly, speaking
French.
Throughout the stay, we improved our French immensely, and even
attended school for four weeks.
While at school, we attended normal classes with our French sisters
for the first week, in many subjects, ranging from science, to English,
to history, and even German and Latin.
For the following three weeks, we were able to have our own timetable,
and attend special classes that were scheduled just for us. In
these classes we had a range of teachers, who each taught us different
key parts of French, and helped us a lot. We also learnt a lot
of new phrases, vocabulary and everyday French sayings that are
popular amongst students our age.
While many of the families did different things, every one of us
managed to go to Paris, which was an amazing experience for everybody,
and everyone saw “La Tour Eiffel”, and other famous landmarks.
Some of the other places we were lucky enough to see were
places like Germany, Strasbourg, Metz, Amsterdam and Sarreguem-