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CCLLEN Bulletin
Campaspe Cohuna Local Learning and Employment Network Inc.
2015, Issue 20, August 2015
2015 Dates
10 September - Murray
River Culinary Challenge
Grand Final
11 September - Echuca
Moama Youth Expo
23 & 26 October - VET
Awards Student Finalists
Interviews
17 November - VET
Awards Night
CCLLEN is ready for new contract ...
Thank you to everyone for your support of our Annual
General Meeting. If you would like a copy of our
Annual Report you can download it from our website
under the Resources tab, or request a hardcopy from
our office.
At this stage we are still waiting for information from
the Department of Education and Training on the
scope of our new contract for the next four years.
Once we have that we will be talking to our members
and stakeholders as we prepare our strategic plan for
2016-2019.
The Workplace Learning Coordinator program will
cease at the end of this year. At this stage there is no
indication that anything will take its place.
Although we are operating in a period of uncertainty
all of the CCLLEN team are continuing to work
enthusiastically on the projects we have ahead of us
for the rest of this year. There is much ahead with the
Murray River Culinary Challenge, Echuca Moama Youth
Expo, School Friendly Business, Information and
Communication Technology careers day, LEAP into
Health, VET in School Excellence Awards and further
roll out of Let’s Read Campaspe.
We are proud of the number of solid partnerships
developed with schools, businesses and community
organisations that will be good foundations for our
future work, whatever our contract scope requires.
Anne Trickey, Executive Officer
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School Friendly Business
May and June saw the continuation of our successful
School Friendly Business events in Cohuna, Rochester,
Kyabram and Echuca Moama. The theme for these
events was ‘Inspiring Workplace Learning’ with the
focus on enabling young people’s first taste of work to
be meaningful and stimulating.
At the Echuca lunch Brendan Caffery from Claas
Harvest Centre and Jodie Watson from Echuca
Regional Health presented.
Kerrie Siderow and Glenda Groves from Gannawarra
Library Services, along with Tonie Kelly from AWMA,
spoke at the Cohuna breakfast.
At Rochester, Anne McEvoy from Rochester Elmore
and District Health Services, Rochester Secondary
College student James Bolitho and Careers Teacher
Colin Huddy spoke.
Cassia Colbeck and Bayden Fallon from Goulburn
Murray Water and St Augustine’s and Kyabram P-12
students, Bonnie Simpson and Jaykie Lowe, were guest
presenters at the Kyabram breakfast.
All the presenters spoke about their positive
experiences and passed on advice about having
students in the workplace. CCLLEN’s Workplace
Learning Coordinator Jacq Campbell spoke at each
event on the ‘Work Inspiration’ program, the objective
of which is to introduce students to a particular
workplace and the opportunities within that
organisation.
All events revealed a similar message that when
workplace learning is inspirational, realistic,
undertaken enthusiastically and well supported with
inductions, feedback processes, mentoring and is
inclusive of all staff it is of enormous benefit to both
students and employers alike. These School Friendly
Business events enable valuable networking
opportunities between businesses and school
communities.
New School Friendly Businesses…..
Casalare P/L, Hurley’s Bar & Bistro, All Vintages Bazaar, Ash Hall Cycles, CLAAS
Harvest Centre, Echuca Metaland, Echuca Moama Physiotherapy, Echuca
Printers, GoodYear AutoCare Moama, Latenean P/L, Rayzor Roofing, Santilla
Homes, The Nook on High and Twisted Science Group.
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Murray River Culinary Challenge
Hotel) and Barry Moyle (Moama RSL).
The students that will go through to the Campaspe
Well done to all the students who participated in the
Regional Final Competition are Lauren Kelly and Luke
Murray River Culinary Challenge Campaspe School
Competitions. The competition was held over 2 weeks Dusina from Echuca College, Chelsea Smith and Gideon
at the Kickham’s Mill training kitchens at Bendigo TAFE, Taylor from St Joseph's College, Angelica Dipasupil and
Echuca campus. Students practiced the three dishes in April Crouch from Rochester Secondary College.
class with their trainers, Rick Smollenaars and Brendan Mitchell Oats from Kyabram P-12 College will team up
Leathlen over a couple of weeks. Each student had just with Hannah Hocking from Rochester Secondary
College.
2.5 hours to present three dishes designed to display
knife skills and basic methods of cookery. The industry
judges were looking for consistency, flavor and were
certainly impressed with the creative presentation
from the students.
A big thank you to our Industry judges Paul Cohen (Rich
River Golf Club), Dave Hollamby (Cock’N’Bull Boutique
School Competition
Regional Final
The Campaspe Regional Final took place at the Bendigo
TAFE, Echuca campus. The 3 course menu of chicken &
mushroom crepes with julienne salad, pork tenderloin
roulade with Lyonnaise potatoes & pea puree, flourless
chocolate cake with poached winter fruits was served
against the clock in 2.5 hours. This menu had a number
of skills sets and cookery components which made it
very challenging.
Well done to all the students that cooked and a big
congratulations to Angelica Dipasupil and April Crouch
from Rochester Secondary College who will move onto
cook in the Grand Final!
VET Awards
The CCLLEN annual VET Awards is on again!
Nomination packs have been distributed out to
schools. All nominations will close at the end of Term
3 and no late nominations will be accepted.
If you would like more nomination packs or have any
The Murray River Culinary Challenge trophy, a piece of
polished river red gum sourced from the Koondrook
forest, is on display at last years’ winners school, Mary
Mackillop College, and the right to keep it or have it will
be hotly contested. Thank you to our local industry
professionals for volunteering their time to judge the
competition George Santos, Moama Bowling Club and
Nikki Cohen, Rich River Golf Club.
We are looking forward to hosting the Grand Final at
Kickham Mill’s training restaurant at Bendigo TAFE,
Echuca campus on the 10 September 2015.
questions please contact Jacq Campbell, Workplace
Learning Coordinator on: 5482 6055 or email
[email protected]
The Awards night will be held
at the Moama Bowling Club
on the 24 November 2015.
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Kyabram ICT Event
Students from Kyabram and Rushworth P-12 Colleges
came together for an exciting interactive event to learn
about and experience first-hand the many career and
study options in the ever expanding field of
Information Communication Technology (ICT).
The CCLLEN facilitated and hosted the event which
featured workshops presented by higher education and
industry representatives. Technology in areas ranging
from games, robotics, applications, what drives a
computer, graphic design and CSIRO bushfire research
was featured. The presenters were from Goulburn
Ovens TAFE, Advance Computing Kyabram, La Trobe
University Bendigo & Bundoora campuses, Splatoon
Cartoons Beechworth and the CSIRO.
Feedback from the students on the day included
comments such as: I liked how there was a range of
activities to engage everyone; People with experience
explained their work; We learnt different things that I
never thought would have so many options in ICT; ICT
can be a gateway to an infinite number of careers.
All up – a great day.
Dookie Agriculture/Horticulture Career Days
On 14 & 15 May over 150 students from Rushworth
P-12 College, Kyabram P-12 College, Rochester
Secondary College, Echuca College and Moama
Anglican Grammar Schools attended the Dookie
Agriculture & Horticulture Careers Day. The days were
organized in partnership with the University of
Melbourne, GMLLEN, NE TRACKS LLEN and CCLLEN.
The workshops gave students an insight to a particular
section of farming, the educational requirements of
that particular area and the job opportunities within
that field. The day was very successful and planning has
already commenced on next year’s event where it is
hoped to offer students even more workshops.
The students associated with these particular
LLENs were given the opportunity to participate in
four out of nine workshops. The nine workshops
were Beef/Dairy; Wool/Sheep; Amenity
Horticulture/Conservation Land management;
Horticulture/Wine Production; Get Into Genes;
Veterinary Technology; Animal Science; Plant
Science; and Urban Horticulture: Green Roofs.
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Rochester Apprentice Info Night
Rochester Secondary College held a Careers
Information Night for those interested in a trade or
traineeship. It was a very valuable evening, with
presentations from MEGT on apprenticeships and
the CCLLEN on advice for students seeking
employment or work experience.
There was also a panel of employers that talked
about their industry and how they came to choose
their current profession. They provided very
practical advice to students on how to best prepare
for a career in a trade. Ex students talked about their
experiences in moving into Traineeships and
Apprenticeships and the challenges they face.
Echuca Moama Beacon Foundation News
The Beacon Foundation held their biggest event of the
year at Rich River Golf Club in June, where our local
young people had the opportunity to engage with local
community and business people to gain an insight into
different career options.
More than 350 Year 10 students from Echuca College,
Moama Anglican Grammar School and St Joseph’s
College chose five workshops at the Beacon Careers
Expo. The workshops included trades, accounting, law,
graphic design, sciences, journalism, allied health and
nursing, sports and fitness, dance, arts and theatre,
engineering, computers & game design, forensics,
childcare, beauty and hairdressing, massage and
defence forces plus more.
Moama Grammar Charter Signing Ceremony
Moama Grammar’s Year 9 & 10 students were inspired
by the guest speaker Russell Jarrett who highlighted
the importance of education & life-long learning, gave
Guest speaker Scott Beattie started the day with
advice on how to follow their dreams and strategies on
relevant messages to make the most of the day and the how to cope with the setbacks along the way, at the
students took on board the advice, with high levels of recent Charter Signing ceremony. Eighty Year 10
engagement and a real buzz in the room. We received students signed the pledge boards to pledge their
feedback from the students, that the day was valuable commitment to the Beacon program and to explore
to get a realistic picture of the career from someone
career options and applying themselves to their studies
who is actually in the industry and to gain information with the aim of moving on to further education,
of the career pathways and training involved.
training or employment when they finish school. The
We appreciate the support we received from our local Principal, teachers and guests signed the board as a
public commitment to support the students with their
business community and thank the presenters for
future pathways. The event was hosted confidently by
volunteering their time for the benefit of our young
the Beacon Leaders.
people’s future.
Beacon Coordinator, Cheryl Sweeney
Anne Trickey - Executive Officer
Bev Werner - Partnership Broker
Alison Dunstan - Workplace Learning Coordinator
Jacq Campbell - Workplace Learning Coordinator
Brian Wilkinson - Project Worker
Cheryl Sweeney - Project Worker
Emily Jones - Office Administration
Address: 47-49 Heygarth St, Echuca VIC 3564
Postal Address: PO Box 273, Echuca VIC 3564
Phone: (03) 5482 6055
Fax: (03) 5482 6588
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.ccllen.com.au
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