An Outstanding Careers and Students Pathways EXPO
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Tena Koutou Katoa Friday 14 May 2021 — Issue 12
An Outstanding Careers and Students Pathways EXPO
On Wednesday this week, our senior students had the privilege to spend most of their day attending our
in-school Careers and Student Pathways Expo organised by staff Michele Zackey-Meek and Amanda Blakey in
our Student Pathways Area. Around 60 organisations and institutions participated and their representatives
made almost one hundred presentations about pathway choices students can consider. The following photos
provide a glimpse of what was on offer. We are proud and pleased to be able to put on such a magnificent
event for our senior students. Our Year 9 Student Ambassadors also deserve huge praise too for their cheerful
assistance, which helped the day go so smoothly.
We have had a huge amount of feedback – verbal and written. Examples include:
‘Thank you for such a well organised Expo today, we had great engagement with students and a great turn
out (100) in our AUT presentation’.
This from Otago University: ‘Your careers day was a roaring success – congratulations!’
And Auckland University: ‘I want to pass on our thanks for a wonderful event on Wednesday. The
organisation and communication was excellent.
Thank you for allowing us the opportunity to have both a stand and presentations to offer our SPO team and
faculties the opportunity to connect with your students. We were very busy at the stand with great questions
from the Selwyn College students and I know the opportunity to present was greatly appreciated by our
faculty team members and all were very positive about the day.
Thank you also to your extended team on the day. From the welcome at the door at check in, the helpers
directing us to our rooms, and the lovely hospitality team who kept us well fed and watered during the day,
we were incredibly well looked after’.
On Thursday evening, we also put on an inaugural event for parents/caregivers with speakers from ten
different universities and institutions. It was great to see so many parents/caregivers keen to support their
student’s future choices. Again, we received some wonderful feedback as well as some suggestions for how we
can build on this in the future.
Selwyn at the World Vision
Youth Conference
Four students represented Selwyn at the World
Vision Youth Conference this week.
They heard from many amazing speakers, including
Yoseph Ayele and Lydia Hollister-Jones, about the
changes they have made in the wider world, as
well as in their local community.
Alex Robinson reports that, ‘One of the take-away
messages was that even the actions we make as
individuals can still help contribute to change!
Their inspirational speeches reminded us all that
we all need to make informed choices. Something
as little as buying fair trade food or wearing
clothing from an ethical brand can make a massive
difference in someone’s life, and even small actions
go a long way in this world’.
LtoR: Poppy Jones, Ella Craske, Alex Robinson and Cameron George
Our Social Council delivers Easter Cheer!
Although not quite timed for Easter, the Selwyn Students’ Social Council
brightened some people’s lives at the start of this term through a Bunny
Bundles initiative. Students delivered 90 chocolate nests and 160 Bunny
cookies to various students, mentor groups and staff.
Their next event is Rose Day.
Wonderful Voluntary Work by Our Cause Corp Students Earns a Lovely Thank you
Thank you to our Year 13 student Amy Holder who through her excellent leadership of Cause Corps has
motivated a group of wonderful student volunteers to put in many hours of voluntary work to support
important causes in our community. This includes knitting beanies for the Auckland City Mission. Here is a
letter we received in response:
‘I wanted to get in touch to thank you for the knitted beanies we received last week. Going into winter, warm
clothing such as your beanies are invaluable to those who reach out to the Mission for support. As you can
imagine, more people than ever have turned to the Mission over the past year while our community continues
to deal with the long-lasting effects of COVID-19. The bigger beanies will be distributed to some of our street
whanau, while the smaller ones will be handed out at the Calder Medical Centre.
Once again, thank you very much for the time and effort you have put into these beanies, and for your support
over the years.
Daniel Payne, Auckland City Mission
Our wonderful voluntary Cause Corp students
Selwyn Student Oliver Holden Hears from the PM
Our senior Totara Learning Centre student Oliver Holden recently wrote to our Prime Minister. He is delighted
to have received a reply – which even has a hand-written note from Jacinda herself. Oliver is hugely proud of
this and we are proud of him for his initiative and really well written letter.
Selwyn Community Education Courses
Courses This Weekend Start Date
Basic Car Maintenance 22 May
Block Printing on Fabric and Paper 22 May
Landing your Ideal Job in a Post-COVID Market 22 May
Microsoft Excel Advanced: Power Query or Data Transformation 22 May
English IELTS Intensive Weekend 22 May
English Improve Your Pronunciation Skills—Part 2 22 May
Spanish—Master Your Prepositions 22 May
Architecture of the Central City 22 May
Beethoven and Berlioz 22 May
Embroidery for Beginners 22 May
French Travellers Weekend Course (Beginners) 22 May
Introduction to Organic Gardening and Permaculture 22 May
Make a Kimono-Style Robe 22 May
Making Delicious Healthy Break 22 May
Pebble Mosaics 22 May
Plant-Based Cooking with Aaron Brunet 22 may
Portrait Painting 22 May
Walking the Camino de Santiago 22 May
Interior Design Basics—Working with Colour 22 May
Soft Stone Sculpture with Gillian Elmslie 22 May
Human Social Behaviour 22 May
Lampshade Making 22 May
Korean Kimchi 23 May
Living a Zero Waste Life 23 May
Painting with Acrylics Workshop—Beginners 23 May
Producing Vegetables and Fruit from Small Gardens 23 May
Landscape Photography 23 May
Think Talk: Virtual Reality in Healthcare with Dr Lisa Reynolds—a Health 1 June
Psychologist and Director of the University of Auckland’s Health psychology
Practitioner Programme
See our website www.selwyncomed.school.nz for details and enrolling or phone 521 9623
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