Year 10 Careers Day
Our Year 10 students participated in their careers day on Tuesday 17 June. They started the day with a Guess the Guest event. Students engaged in a Q+A session to try and guess the occupations of the panelists before listening to more detailed talks from each.
A Carmel Challenge activity followed where they competed in teams to complete a range of challenges that indicated their skill and subject strengths. They also completed research tasks looking at the new Careers NZ website Tahatu Navigator, Careers Central and then a subject selection task looking into our Year 11 – 13 subject options.
Pictured below is one of our guest panels and a group of students at the completion of one of the Carmel Challenge activities
Year 11 Careers Day
Our Year 11 Careers Day was held on Thursday, 29th June. In the morning students attended 2 sessions on employability skills and CV writing. In the afternoon students attended the North Shore Careers Expo.
Year 12 Career Day and Work Experience
Our Year 12 Careers Day was held on Tuesday, June 3rd. Students listened to 2 of our alumni, Ms Bridget Pyc and Ms Jenny Zhang speak about their career journeys. Students also listened to an ex-student panel and were involved in 2 tertiary workshops.
Below is Bridget Pyc with 3 Year 12 students; Matilda Grice, Bridget Mihaljevich and Polly Walker, and our ex- student panel; Ruby Armiger, Kayla Proctor, Olivia Martin, Monet O’Connor, Hannah McDonald and Rosaline Son
Our Year 12 students work experience took place on 4th – 5th June. All students were successful in gaining placements. The range of placements is vast, including;
- 28 in ECE or Primary Schools
- 24 in Clinical Health
- 17 in Medical
- 13 in Business and
- 12 in Design/IT
Other placements included;
- Veterinary practices
- Sport
- Law
- Architecture
- Performing Arts
- Engineering
- Boat Building
- Construction
- Beauty Therapy, and
- Real Estate
Overwhelmingly, these students have returned to school having experienced very rewarding learning opportunities. Thank you to our community for supporting this event.
Below is a photo of Rhianna Balingit at her University of Auckland placement
“For my work experience, I had the amazing opportunity to shadow Dr. Haruna Suzuki-Kerr, a research fellow at the University of Auckland. She works on research projects exploring the pathological mechanisms behind hearing loss and the development of new therapies for inner ear diseases. This experience took me out of the normal classroom setting and into a professional research environment where I met other researchers and performed hands-on experiments in the lab that I typically wouldn’t be able to do in high school. I really enjoyed learning from the team, asking questions, and seeing how science is applied in real life. It opened my eyes to the possibilities of a career in biomedical research.
A huge thank you to Dr. Suzuki-Kerr for making it such an exciting and informative experience. An opportunity that I will never forget.”
Rhianna Balingit, Year 12
