RMIT Visit!

Hello again, and welcome to Week 3 of this term. Let's start by recapping the last few days of our Careers and Work Pathways unit: as you read in our last entry, the group were out at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) last Wednesday with Mrs Ip, Ms Coombs and Mr Shanahan. They caught the train from Mordialloc to Melbourne Central, and met out the front of the campus (near the State Library) for their tour.

First of all, the group was taken to one of the lecture theatres and were told about the many courses and opportunities that RMIT has to offer its students. Following this session, the students were then broken into groups and were given the Campus Challenge, whereby they had to follow a series of cryptic clues to negotiate their way around the campus and find a set of answers.

Hopefully, after that visit, some students who may have been thinking about furthering their education at RMIT are now better equipped to grasp those opportunities.

NATIONAL TREE PLANTING DAY

In addition to completing their normal Careers work, the group had the opportunity to participate in this year's National Tree Planting Day. They were lead down to the bank of Mordialloc Creek and, after some information was provided by local rangers on-site, the planting operation began in earnest (well, for some, anyway!).

Others were a little too earnest . . .

Overall, though, everyone had a lot of fun doing their bit for our local environment. Our thanks to Mr Palfrey for his work in setting up this opportunity, to Mr Palfrey's Year 8 students for their assistance, and to the City of Kingston rangers who were very helpful in showing the group what was expected.