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Careers Update – October 6, 2016
Work experience Over the holiday period 16 boys used the break to undertake work experience. Well done to them. As a consequence two boys have been successful in securing apprenticeships, and another part time work. – – Weekly Career News Tuesday 4 October 2016 items: -·– – – – – – – – Preparing for…
Careers Update – September 8, 2016
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Careers Update – August 25, 2016
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Careers Update – August 11, 2016
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VCAL to be introduced in 2017
St Patrick’s College will welcome a new era of hands-on learning when it introduces the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) to its curriculum offerings in 2017. The College has employed the 2014 VCAL Teacher of the Year Lyn Maniz to oversee the development and introduction of the program which will complement the school’s already…
Student Diary – Day One. James Duffy’s account of day one.
Day 1 (As written and experienced by James Duffy) Inevitably, I arrived safe, sound and sleepy on the runway of Osaka airport. The first thing that grabbed my attention was the predominance of English words appearing on signs all around my vehicle. Was it a conspiracy all along? Was Japan just one huge lie conjured…
Student Diary – Day Two. James strikes again, this time with an account of Kyoto’s shrines.
Day 2 (As written and experienced by James Duffy) I awoke at 7am to a strange beeping sound coming from the other side of the room. As I puzzled out my surroundings I realised that I was indeed laying on a futon in a ryokan in the eastern nation of Japan. After that properly set…
Student Diary – Day Three. James Duffy’s account of our day at Nara.
Day 3 (As written and experienced by James Duffy) My third day began again at 7am. Just like yesterday, I went to breakfast and ate toast with jam as well as oranges and orange juice. A slight deviation from my previous breakfast was the addition of two small pork sausages. Small though they were, it…
Day Three – Nara. Wild deer and a giant Buddha.
Day three saw us depart Kyoto for the countryside. Our first stop was the picturesque Fushimi Inari Shrine. This important Shinto shrine is famous for the thousands of torii gates that trail paths through the sacred mountain. The site is dedicated to the god of rice, whose messenger is the fox whose emblem could be…
Day Two – Osaka. Exploring Kyoto
O what a day. Already it seems like we’ve been here for much longer than a day, with the boys making the most of every minute. Today was a day of old Japan, in one of it’s oldest cities – temples, castles, winding streets and narrow stairs. We started with breakfast at the guest house,…