Year 10 Pre-Trades

LENGTH OF COURSE: Semester Only
ASSUMED BACKGROUND: Nil
SUBJECT CHARGES: $120

CONTENT
Get your hands dirty and kickstart your career! This course is your passport to the trades, providing a solid foundation for a successful future. Learn essential skills in tiling, framing, concreting, bricking, plumbing, and general construction, all while gaining valuable on-the-job experience through real-world projects around the school.

This course combines classroom learning with practical, hands-on experience, preparing you for further study or direct entry into the workforce.

Course content will be a selection of the following:

Process and production skills:
Develop knowledge and skills that are from a range of trades including tiling, framing, concreting, bricking, plumbing and general construction techniques. Students will at times take on projects around the school to gather real world experiences.

Collaborating and managing:
develop understandings of how to safely manage projects and use materials responsibly. Students learn how to work independently and on collaborative projects.

ASSESSMENT TYPES

Production and process skills:
Ability to independently and safely construct products using trade techniques.
Knowledge and Understanding:
Design, produce and evaluate your own product. The product developed can be chosen by the student in collaboration withtheir teacher as cost, space, time and capacity need to be considered.