Humanities

CAREERS

UWA VISIT

During Term 1, students participated in The University of Western Australia (UWA) Exploring Engineering Showcase. The took part in various engineering-related activities encompassing the seven disciplines offered at UWA. The event was a great success and our students were able to use the wonderful UWA facilities and engage with engineering from a student perspective.

ENGINEERING PRESENTATION

Mr Matt Fitzgibbon (’05) visited Trinity in June to give students an idea about the variety of roles available in the mining industry. Since graduating from Trinity College, Matt has worked in a variety of engineering roles in mining and is currently the Underground Manager at Saracen Gold Mines Pty Ltd. The boys loved hearing about the life a mine worker and were lucky enough to hold a nugget worth $15,000!

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT & WELLBEING

All Year 10 students spent four weeks examining career possibilities and developing skills in the Personal Development & Wellbeing (PDW) classes. Students spent time examining the factors and the attributes they will need to consider in developing their future careers. UWA presented to all students and discussed what the future of work would look like for our current students and the skills they should be developing.

The students used Career Voyager; a psychometric assessment tool designed to help match their interests to possible career paths. This then led to students researching potential careers of interest. Across the PDW classes students completed the Smart Move WHS Certificate and produced a portfolio aimed at assisting in securing part-time employment or Vocational Education Training.

CERTIFICATE IV BUSINESS

In 2018, 31 Year 12 students enrol in the Certificate IV pathway. Key competencies included Workplace Occupational Health & Safety, Leadership in the Workplace and the Promotion of Products and Service. Completion of the course and a pass in English ATAR allows students direct entry into many university courses. Curtin and ECU were both popular destinations for students with Commerce being the most popular Bachelor course.

YEAR 12

From the beginning of the year students were presented with information and advice regarding life after Year 12. In Terms 1 and 2, the students heard presentations from Curtin, Notre Dame and UWA. These talks proved to be invaluable as many students asked questions and then visited some of the campuses for Open Days in the July school holidays. Staff from the Tertiary Institutions Service Centre (TISC), also visited Trinity to guide the university bound students through the ins and outs of applying for university and present information on marks adjustments and scaling for certain subjects.

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION & TRAINING

Mr Russell Hinks

day a week spent off campus studying the following different courses:

• Cert II Sport & Recreation • Cert II Information Technology • Cert II Outdoor Education • Cert II Business • Cert II Visual Arts (Wood) • Cert II Data & Voice Communications (Dream Factory)

WORKPLACE LEARNING

The following certificates were available outside of school through Workplace Learning and Indigenous Traineeships: • Cert II Business Qantas • Cert II Business BHP • Cert II Business Australia Post • Cert II Business NAB • Cert II Automotive Servicing Technology (Extra Auto) • Cert II Cybersecurity

Mr Russell Hinks

Careers Coordinator

TCEC

Laudato Si – On the Care for Our Common Home

“A true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.” Pope Francis.

Pope Francis calls for nothing less than a revolution of our hearts and minds, for a transformation of our societies and individual lifestyles, to live in harmony with God’s creation. He challenges ‘the modern myth of unlimited material progress’. He asks us to redefine our notion of progress and rethink our current public values which put financial and economic growth before ecology and the needs of the most vulnerable communities and people.

It is with this thought in mind that the Trinity College Environmental Committee (TCEC) has been working tirelessly to improve the environmental footprint of the Trinity College community through a variety of projects.

Greenbatch – working in conjunction with this WA start up, the TCEC has been collecting #1 PET plastic bottles and containers at the College, from the canteen and from the College community to be repurposed into filament for 3D printers or made into furniture for the College. This ongoing project hopes to reclaim as much plastic from the College community and prevent it going into either landfill or our waterways. So far, we have been successful in our collections, but there is always room for even more plastic being recycled at the first and only plastic reprocessing plant in Western Australia.

Paper Recycling – as a place of education, Trinity College understandably uses a substantial amount of paper and cardboard and the TCEC has set up a dedicated program of collection and recycling of this as much as is possible.

Ms Alison Mackenzie Ms Amanda Marocchi

Staff Coffee Cups – in order to reduce College use of non-recyclable coffee cups, each staff member was gifted a personalised Trinity College mugs and disposable coffee cups removed from the staff room. This has had a massive impact on reducing landfill with one simple change.

Keep Cups – for the first time, Trinity College has designed and produced their very own, unique reusable ‘keep cups’ in another move towards a more sustainable College community. These keep cups are non-toxic, BPA/BPS free and dishwasher safe. They are sustainably manufactured in Australia and go towards reducing disposable coffee cup use.

In 2019, the TCEC goal is to continue and grow the plastic bottle recycling program; improve the paper and card recycling around the College; and introduce new initiatives including sustainable packaging (reducing single use plastic) and a composting program. Trinity College is now a registered participant in Sustainable Schools WA due to the work of the TCEC.

Ms Alison Mackenzie

Head of Library Services

Ms Amanda Marocchi

Head of Year 8