From the Futures Team
Celebrating National Careers Week
We’re excited to launch our new series of podcasts produced by the Futures@Pymble team and hosted by our own Pymble students. We will be releasing an episode a week via our Futures@Pymble Youtube channel. Check out our first episode here with Georgia Lovell, Pymble ex-student who went onto study at Harvard University in the US hosted by Samadhi (2022). These episodes are hosted by current and past students to research potential post school pathways to share with the Pymble community.
New NSW Portfolio Entrance Scheme
UNSW have introduced a new Portfolio Early Conditional Entrance Scheme. This is open for a number of their Art, Design and Architecture Degrees and Engineering Courses. All details about the dates and the requirements for entrance can be found by clicking here.
Key dates:
- Opens 15th May 2023
- Closes 21st July 2023
We had Codie Wem, Undergraduate Student Recruitment Manager, from UNSW to discuss the new portfolio entrance scheme to specific university courses. You can view the video here.
Year 12 Futures Updates
The Futures@Pymble team have introduced a new series of weekly videos to keep our Year 12 students and their families informed about updates related to university and other post school pathways. It is important for students to note deadlines and events in regards to the application processes for early entry and UAC university as well as scholarships. View the Week 3 Update here.
You can view past updates at the Futures@Pymble Youtube account
Year 10 Futures Interviews start next week
Students will begin meeting with the Futures@Pymble team to discuss their Cliftons Strength Profiles and understand how they can turn their strengths into talents. This information will be handy to help them with subject selection and for looking for future opportunities for service learning, leadership and overall growth.
How to book a session
All of Year 10 have been emailed information on how to book their session for this term. Interview opportunities will also continue into Term 3. Prior to the session, students are required to complete a pre-meeting survey to provide information on their current understanding of their profile and other areas of interest they may want to pursue. We encourage families to help students to fill in this survey as it addresses the following questions:
- What activities are you naturally drawn to?
- What activities do you seem to pick up quickly?
- In what activities did you seem to automatically know the steps to be taken/what to do?
- During what activities have you had moments of subconscious excellence when you thought ‘How did I do that?’ or “I’m good at that!”
- What activities give you energy, either while doing them or immediately after finishing them, and you think, “When can I do that again?” or “I really enjoyed that”.
Our team look forward to meeting with the students to understand their exciting ideas for the future.
Kim Maksimovic
Director of Futures and Partnership (K-12)