Josh has just signed up his apprenticeship with The Big Orange Cafe, it’s great to see business signing up apprentices and securing the future of the industry.
Congratulations Josh and The Big Orange Cafe we look forward to hearing more about your success in the future.
Just
a reminder to anyone who is looking for an apprenticeship, or business
looking to employ an apprentice, we are here to assist you with the
process.
In Schools Trade Promotion
From l to r: Richard Cooke. Laura Terry Pene, Alesha Prujean, Lee Bush
Meet our four young enthusiastic presenters who are currently promoting Trades to our year 10 Students in Wanganui.
When
the students leave the session they will have an understanding on what a
Trade is, pathway into trades and who to contact if they are
interested.
Once again a big thank you to our organising committee
for all your hard work and support, without all your hard work this
would not have been possible.
The night for parents and
supporters to hear the message we are giving students will be August 26
at 7.30 pm at the Wanganui City College Hall (gold coin donation).
What’s happening next:
Calling all business: From the 15th –
19th of November we are looking at running a series of Industry Days for
our students. Businesses this is where we will be calling on you to
assist us, by showing a group of students around your business from
there we can show them the pathways into your trade.
Apprentices and Employers
Hinera ORouke
After much discussion with business in Wanganui we realise the need to
support Employers and Apprentices. We are looking at holding a session
with apprentices from a cross section to help us understand where we
could support apprentices go get through their apprenticeship.
Trades Facilitator – forgin connections with Industry - July 2010
I would like to start by saying what an amazing community we have here in Wanganui, and how much support the community are giving to this initiative. The hours of volunteer input and support from the community is heartwarming.
First of all congratulations to Cody Lawton who has just signed up with Apex Electronic as a Electronic Technician. Any business looking at employing apprentices it would be great to hear from you, to discuss how we can work with you to ensure the process of employing an apprentice is as smooth as possible.
A successful Day was held during the school holidays when a group of 18 students from Wanganui High School, City College, Cullinane College and Colligate School attended an Industry Day at INTRANZ. It was fantastic to see these students take time out of their school holidays to look at their future.
Our Schools operation group members,Bob Wilson (City College), Craig Adams (Wanganui High School), Reece Adam (Cullinane College), Dallas Hair and Cadena Tuwhangai (Work and Income), Katarina Hina (UCOL), Ellen Titter (Training for You), Claire Cowley (YMCA) are working hard preparing for our In Schools Trades Promotion in August we have four fabulous presenters from Training For You who will be presenting to the schools. Watch this space Wanganui....
In November there will be Industry visits during the week of the 15-19 of November we are looking at taster days for our year 10 students. We will be approaching business for our students to visit if any business out there would like to be a part of this you can contact the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce.
Once again thank you Wanganui for your support
Trades Facilitator – working with schools - 17 May 2010
On Monday 17th May 16 Students from City College and Cullinane College attended a brainstorming session, the session kicked off with a golfing session to ensure students felt relaxed with each other before settling into the session which included Pizza as the ‘bribe’. Click here to view photos .
Outcomes from this session were as follows:
Understanding students knowledge of trades
Understanding of pathways into trades, and where they thought each year group should be receiving information on trades.
How students would like to receive information on Trades
Role Models delivering the information
Forming a student group to assist with the Trades Days
We are in the process of setting up an operations group to run Trade and Industry Days in schools, we will be meeting with a large group of people from various areas of Schools, Independent training organisations, private training educators , Independent training providers and Trades representatives on 2nd June. This meeting will be to discuss how we can work with students in Wanganui Schools and how trades can be promoted as a career over the next 12-18 months and ongoing.
Anyone in the community who would like to have input into this meeting we would love to hear from you, just give us a call at the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce. We are also looking for Role Models who can present at our Trade Days so once again any ideas are welcome, for this initiative to be successful community input and support is vital.
I am now three weeks into my role as Trades Facilitator and
what an exciting three weeks it has been.
The support I have received from everyone in the office, the
board and the Wanganui Community has been overwhelming.
The last three weeks I have spent my time learning about the
role what has already been acheived and how we can move forward with this
amazing initiative.
So far we have meet and had a very constructive meeting with
the Wanganui Tertiary Education Steering Group, meet with various Trades and
Schools.
We are currently in the process of setting up an Advisory
Group and also an operations group to get the message across to our Students
and parent about what Trades are all about what pathways are available to
students.
The next 12 months are going to be really exciting and I
look forward to working with the community to get our young people back into
Trades.
New Trades Facilitator appointed -
29 March 2010
Susan Crawshaw has accepted the position of Trades facilitator with the Wanganui Chamber and takes up the position on March 29th.
We are delighted to have Susan join the Chamber Team and look forward to her picking up the reins on the project to take it to the next level.
rades Facilitator appointed - 
