Year 10 Industry Day

On Friday 1 December, we had our inaugural Year 10 Industry Day. The students started the day at school doing an exercise looking at themselves and what kind of work they might like based on their personality. We then boarded buses and headed out to visit local employers and education providers. Each class got to visit The Timaru District Council, ARA Institute and DB Breweries and then we broke into smaller groups and they visited one of the following businesses: 100% Pure New Zealand Honey, Heartland Chips, Thompson Engineering and Timaru Container Terminal. The students were shown around businesses and student’s got to see first hand what it would be like to work in that particular industry.

It was a busy day moving between the businesses but the student’s enjoyed the variety of the businesses they visited and asked lots of really good questions. We are incredibly grateful to all of the above mentioned businesses for opening up their businesses for the day and showing the student’s what our local industries have to offer. Our thanks also to Aoraki Development Trust who were instrumental in getting all the businesses involved in this day.