Young People / 03.04.2018
School… The best years of your life?
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Young People / 20.03.2018
Real men DO cry
When boys are told not to cry it causes a natural emotional response to be shut down. Whilst working with groups of boys over the past 4 years I have discovered that this is unhealthy. They seem to lose touch with many of their feelings...
Southern Region BEC have been pairing senior high school students with local employers under the Structured Workplace Learning Program for over 17 years. In 2017 alone, we have coordinated more than 800 placements throughout Queanbeyan, Braidwood, Cooma, Yass, Goulburn and Crookwell. In 2018 we hope that you...
Schools, Young People / 04.12.2017
Qupcakes: The Video
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“Don’t they realise that we are people too?” I am sitting in class with a group of Year 8 boys, discussing why it is that school is such a hard place for many students to reside in, and exploring why there are so many instances...
Schools, Young People / 28.09.2017
How to save and manage your money
In recent years I have spent most of my life travelling, living overseas, going on holidays, buying most things I want/need and having the money up front to pay for it. People always ask, how can you afford to do that? Especially those that know...
Schools, Young People / 31.07.2017
QUPCAKES: updates 6 and 7
Update 6 At this week’s session, we got back to basics. Each student was given a folder in which there were handouts covering what we had covered so far in QUPCAKES. It was good to go back and have a look at all the different topics,...
Schools, Young People / 14.07.2017
QUPCAKES: updates 4 and 5
Update 4 This week’s Session 4 turned out to be very interesting. We had a guest speaker, Germaine Muller, who is the Marketing Officer at SRBEC. Germaine talked to the students about marketing QUPCAKES. After over an hours discussion about logos, taglines, colours, social media and...
Young People / 01.07.2017
QUPCAKES: the second and third updates
Update 2 The second session of QUPCAKES was interesting and informative for everyone – the first thing the students asked when they arrived for the session was “When can we cook some QUPCAKES?” and when I replied “Right now!” there were smiles all around. The kids...
Schools, Video, Young People / 16.06.2017
Working with Bega High students to paint a mural
The Far South Coast Links to Learning Bega High students have been very busy. Putting their creative forces to great use they are working in collaboration with Bega Valley Shire Council to create a wonderful mural to give life to the soon to be Bega...