Continuing our career exploration facilitated by the Neil Porter Legacy, several of our female students in Years 9 - 12 recently attended an open day at the Iona Gas Plant. Originally perceived as a male career pathway, our students explored the site and learnt about the variety of career opportunities available in this innovative and interesting workplace. The Iona Gas Storage Facility, operated by Lochard Energy, opened its doors to 70 female Year 9 – 12 students from 5 schools. Many Lochard staff were on hand to speak to the students about their careers, the roles they do, their education, career pathways and answered any questions. Students heard from operators, a reservoir engineer, the chief executive officer, planning and execution manager, head of operations, shift supervisor, production technician, thermographer and many other interesting employees! Ricky Leonard, Steve van der Starre, and the Lochard team put so much planning and preparation into the day with staff travelling from Melbourne to attend, several employees attending on their day off, speakers with animations to show the gas storage process, and many other brilliant initiatives that made the day so valuable for the students and teachers in attendance. On top of that, they provided lunch for everyone! The students toured the facility and learnt how the gas is stored underground in rocks. They also and saw compressors with 6,500 horsepower which keeps the gas underground, or are used to ship the gas around Australia. Thank-you to the Iona staff for putting on such a great day! Further open days for all students will be hosted in the future to let students know more about the various career options in our area. Year 5/6B’s show chooks have started to lay eggs! We have been given the opportunity to care for five chooks as part of the Royal Melbourne Show’s School Poultry Competition. The chooks will be judged on their size, appearance and the eggs they lay. The chooks are on a very strict diet as the food must be weighed as part of the competition and we are recording the weekly weight gain of the poultry. We have been learning what we can feed them and what can just be a treat so please do not feed the birds before talking to us. Our friendly, but shy birds have different coloured bands on their legs to help identify them and, once used to their names, we are training them to come when they are called, how cool is that! So we welcome Queen Pecksalot, Little Jonny, KFC, Chirp,and T-Rex to our School community. |
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