Western Student Connections

Shaping young careers	2/12 Blueridge Drive Dubbo NSW 2830 PO Box 4939 Dubbo EAST NSW 2830	Phone: 02 6885 6144 Fax: 02 6885 6199 Email: reception@wsc.edu.au
	1a Wentworth Street Broken Hill NSW 2880	Phone: 08 8082 5725
	120 Bentinck Street Bathurst NSW 2795	Phone: 02 6332 3656

Work Placement Service Provider	Links to Learning Provider	Creative Kids Provider	Duke of Edinburgh Award Unit	NESA Registered Training

Work placement is a planned opportunity in a quality host workplace that enables senior school students studying particular industry-based courses to practise and develop their industry competencies and their employability skills in a vibrant real work context. As a Work Placement Service Provider, we are at the cutting edge of the changing economic and social conditions in our regions. We have developed long term relationships with local businesses, schools, service providers, governments and communities. We work with local schools (government, independent and Catholic), TAFE NSW, Registered Training Organisations and employers, to coordinate HSC VET work placements for all eligible students within service region J & K, which cover the Central West, Orana and Far West of NSW.	WSC is funded by the NSW Department of Education for three Links to Learning projects: Knowing Me Pathways Gateways Projects target government school students who are at risk of disengaging from education. We work closely with the school's Learning Support Team to ensure participants in our projects gain the resilience and skills to complete their education to Year 12.	As a Creative Kids Provider with Service NSW, we offer 6-hour workshops for young people aged 6 years to 15 years. Parents can register for the $100 Creative Kids Voucher, so their young person can attend a workshop with us Workshops are available using a variety of robots including Bee-bots, Blue-bots, Ozobots, Sphero, Dash & Dot. Participants can learn to code using Scratch, Ozoblockly and Javascript.	We can coordinate the Bronze Award for groups of students for the four activities: Service: Volunteering time to assist others or your community Physical Recreation: Improving fitness and discovering new sports or active recreational activity Skills: Undertaken a new interest or hobby or extending on a current one Adventurous Journey: Undertaking a journey in an unfamiliar environment is about creating opportunities for team building through shared planning, role allocation, problem solving and accommodating physical and personality differences	Completing Work Readiness: Preparing Students for Workplace Learning, will contribute 6 hours of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Registered PD addressing 1.3.2, 2.3.2, 3.5.2, 5.1.2, 5.5.2, 6.2.2, 7.2.2, 7.3.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW. Western Student Connections is endorsed to provide the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Registered Professional Development for teachers accredited at Proficient Teacher level.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: The coordination of work placements is funded by the State of New South Wales through the Department of Education under the Work Placement Service Provider Program