8850 Form Vocational 2016-2024

I'm Jill Burbidge. I'm the vice principal here for teaching and learning and student achievement. We're very lucky here to be able to offer a really wide curriculum range of subjects across a number of different disciplines and at different levels. We have courses that will enable you to go either straight into the workplace within that field or to university to study further before entering that field. Some of our courses are very much hands-on and practically oriented. They will give you an experience of what it's like to work in that industry. If you are somebody who finds exams daunting and you want to be assessed in a different way, then doing the vocational qualifications is probably a better route because that's continuous assessment. The other opportunity that vocational courses provide you with is the chance to do work experience. Some of our courses require you to do work experience regularly in placement every week. For example, if you're interested in one of the healthcare professions or interested in childcare, then you would be in placement very regularly. Other vocational courses offer block placements, where you are going into an intensive period over a few weeks' time. My name is Abby and I'm studying childcare level 3. I find studying childcare quite fun and I get to have practical and non-practical parts of working with children. It's made me more aware of what the job is like and when I want to go out and work. I get a lot of opportunities to gain experience with different age groups. My name is Christy and I'm studying travel tourism level 1. My course at the moment is quite good. You learn new skills in the travel and tourism industry. My name is Nicholas Vockowski. I'm studying IT and extended...