Category Archives: Careers

Take more Risks…Like our Young Smithfield SHS Newsreaders

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Mt Sheridan Plaza/ Win News Cairns Young Newsreader Competition

Five very commendable senior students and their families drove to Mt Sheridan on Sat March 18 to participate in the Young Newsreader heats. All five shone beside their competitors. They experienced so many new and strange things: sitting behind a news desk in front of a live audience, speaking into a television camera, using a teleprompter and reading the news confidently and fluently. I might be biased but Smithfield impressed! Louise wrote,” It was an exceptionally amazing opportunity and I learned a lot in those few moments.  I know what I can do better about my public speaking, and can work on improving beyond my current ability.” A gift bag including a retail voucher and certificate was a bonus. If you are in Yr 10 or 11 and considering nominating next year, ask Sorami O, Jack G, Louise M, Alex C or Tegan M what it felt like to be a “splendid sun” on television for five whole minutes?  [Pictured Sorami O]

Skyrail Competition Closes soon

So, how about taking a risk?  You could win the $200 family return pass on Skyrail.  All you need to do, is compose a 300 word (minimum) newspaper article and email/hand to Mrs Robins. More information @ Your Library

Social Media and Job Searching

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We’ve waved farewell to our Year 10’s, 11’s and 12’s this month. Permanently in the case of Year 12’s.  Now’s the time to consider how your social media profile can count when searching for a job. A digital footprint of which you can be proud, is one quite important aspect of your global citizenship – one of our 6 C’s of education in the 21st Century.

These snapshots remind us to consider how a prospective employer will screen you online before deciding to hire you. Check out the full infographic on globalcitizen.org   Clicking on the link takes you to the most common mistakes to make online and how to correct them.

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Altruism in the form of donating or volunteering is obviously highly valued by everyone in our community – not just employers.

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Literature – the goal of Literacy

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This week, Kate Parker shared an interesting quote about classic literature.  It’s from a new ebook called Canon Reloaded by Jacqueline Grassmayr (2013) and reinforces the importance of holding a good number of worthy young adult books in our fiction collection. She wrote, “Readers should be able to relate to their ideas regardless at when they are written. In this way, through reading a selection of texts considered worthy, we can share common human experiences regardless of time.”  So check out our latest purchases and donations on our Red Hot reading review blog & get reading and growing – You are what you read!

Spotlight 5 Min Short Play Competition

Last days to enter. Email your short play and Spotlight 2013 Entry Form  to Mrs Robins by August 16th to be in the running to win an ipad mini, courtesy of Calanna Pharmacies. Download an entry form or collect one from the library.

A Career in the Creative & Performing Arts?

The new ADERG Channel, an extension of the Art & Design Education Resource Guide (ADERG)  offers additional and more frequent opportunities to explore what to study and where to study. Essentially, the ADERG Channel is internet-based contact through newsletters, newsfeeds, articles about current events at universities and colleges, a feast of images, social networking and the provision of various digital versions of the content in the print edition of ADERG.

To search for a creative course of study, simply sign up for the ADERG Channel newsletter. This will ensure you receive all you need to stay in touch and keep up-to-date. What will you see? Newsfeeds, newsletters, Gallery Packs of graduate work, items of interest from the universities and colleges, lists of Open Days and Graduate Exhibitions, social network contact plus more. Sign up for the ADERG Channel newsletter here.

Donation of Aviation Reference Books

Gavin Broadbent donated some very valuable aviation reference books to our library last week. Gavin was a student here from 1984-86 and went on to become a commercial pilot for both Qantas and Virgin airlines. Future aviators will be looking for these covers on our new book display. Many thanks Gavin, we hope they inspire some of our students to follow in your footsteps.

International Women’s Day March 8

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March 8th this year was a girl’s only zone in the library at first break. To celebrate International Women’s Day, we hosted a chat with Danette McLean, a Environmental Engineer and Lawyer. Danette shared slides of some of the projects she has been involved with and gave us insight into being a woman working in a hard hat industry. You can learn more about working in a hard hat by visiting the government website and viewing the video clips and other material.

We were very interested in Danette’s sustainability projects and learning about how Environmental Engineers solve practical problems. Our event attracted over 20 girls and we are thankful to Danette for helping us to celebrate the achievements of women and girls by sharing her own career with us.

Mrs Andersen and Mrs Robins made muffins and we drew two lucky door prizes – hand powerered dynamo torches. Danette handed out free rulers to promote the Engineer’s Association and encourage students to consider a career in this field. More information can be found on the International Women’s Day website, but so you don’t feel left out fellows, we are planning on finding a guest speaker to interest you.  So look forward to a “Boys Only” day in the near future. 

 

Science Week and JCU Open Day

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Last week the library combined two events; National Science Week and a promotion of the James Cook University Open Day  Aug 21.  The JCU Medical & Health Sciences Faculty Marketing Department  kindly supplied anatomical models and the Minister, Hon Cameron Dick,  visited the library on Wednesday while paying his respects to our own award-winning HOD Science, Mr Callin.  

Lots of students expressed interest in the JCU Course book for 2012 as well as our own title, “Careers in IT”.  We have two contests running until the end of August. The first is an anatomy quiz and the second involves writing a Nano Story (50 word story) mentioning one of the health science careers listed on the competition.  All our competitions this week and next week, which is book week, close at the end of August.  Snapshots of the Science Week/JCU display are sprinkled through the blog today.

Inspecting the Medical realia on loan from JCU

Sites to help you study & read

This week, we’ve added heaps of good research sites to our Library Bookmarks  like the Creative Commons website.  Search by tags or look down the lists to check if a list has been created for your assignment.  A very cool Study webpage for 13-17yr olds has just been launched by the Western Australian Government. Spend some time at STUDY VIBE and watch your grades improve.  The WA government has always been innovative, they have been running a journal featuring reviews of adolescent fiction for many years. You can  read the reviews online. Search the CMIS website for Book Reviews (search by title or author) You can even search for information pathfinders (search by topic) and be rewarded with a hotlist of websites.  This is one example of a book review which appears in the Fiction Focus quarterly journal and also in their online database. Here’s the review of “Lean on Pete”, a new novel on the shelves.

Steampunk

“Lean on Pete” is great for those of us who like realism, but hold onto your hats fantasy lovers, there’s a new genre to describe the speculative yet historical stories that are increasing in number. It’s “Steampunk”.  Explore these bookmarks from the Marcellin Library to learn more about Steampunk novels.

More visitors arrived from Hong Kong and were partnered up with eager Smithfield  students. Teachers, Ann, Petula & Ray spent some time with us in the library, while the students were off with their buddies.

Visiting students from Hong Kong using a library laptop