Gateway at Whakatāne High School 2021 Gateway has continued to provide great opportunities for our senior students to experience a possible career pathway that involves hands-on, practical learning in the workplace. This year, we have had a wide range of placements including plumbing, construction, hospitality, health services, early childhood, farming, automotive and many others. Students are also involved in courses such as Leadership, Health and Safety in the Workplace and First Aid. Whakatāne High School would like to acknowledge all the businesses/organisations and the wonderful people of this community who give up their time and knowledge to help our students have a realistic work placement. It has been extremely rewarding to see students gain new skills, confidence and some have even gained employment and/or apprenticeships from their hard work and commitment.
Student Voice: “I enjoyed having a day during the week for my work placement as I could start to understand whether this was a job I wanted to do in the future. After my placement I definitely knew it was and I am going to follow this up with applying to Toi Ohomai next year”.
“At first, I was quite nervous about my placement, but the experience of being out in the community and helping others, made me feel really good and I wanted to continue on at my placement for longer”.
Bay of Plenty Futures Academy (Formerly Trades) 2021 Senior students at Whakatāne High School have the opportunity to enrol in the Futures Academy to combine their school learning experience with tertiary trades training. This year has seen a record number of students engage in this programme and experience both theory and practical work associated with their chosen course. It has been exciting to see more training partners come on board and provide courses such as Boat Building, Hospitality and Driving Training. There are more partners coming onboard to add to the many options students can select too! Many of these courses are run in Whakatāne and, if they are not, then full transport is provided to and from courses. Courses are delivered either once or twice a week over 30 weeks, or through a noho style course which takes place in intensive one-week blocks. The school has been proud of how students have conducted themselves whilst on their courses and wish to thank all the tutors for their input. It has been greatly appreciated.
Student Voice: The skills I have learnt from my course will help me build something in future - maybe even my own house. I like the environment as it makes me want to do well, and I like visiting the different farms and making connections.
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