Careers / GATEWAY

Careers Centre - Nga Umanga

There is always a lot happening - details are on our Careers Events Calendar (2012 available shortly).

Career education and guidance at Lynfield College develops students' ideas from Yr 9 through to Year 13 with programmes specific to each level, to prepare students to make decisions at a succession of key transition stages in life. Each student has their own Career Pathway folder which they add to from Year 9 onwards.

The ultimate aim of career education and guidance is to equip students to develop their careers throughout their lives and what they learn at school is a crucial start. Students need to learn to make considered decisions and act accordingly. They must learn how to become resilient career managers, gaining competencies that will enable them to live full and satisfying lives, while contributing to a sustainable future for Aotearoa New Zealand.

Lynfield College takes an integrated approach with all curriculum areas linking their courses with careers, so that content and context are inherently real and future-focused for our students, as well as form teachers working on career management competencies through the pastoral care system.

The NZ Curriculum’s vision and values relate closely to the key career competencies:

Developing self awareness - young people understand themselves and the influences on them.
Exploring opportunities - young people investigate opportunities in learning and work
Deciding and acting - young people make and adjust their plans, manage change and transition and take appropriate action

The connections with learning pathways provided through funding such as STAR and Gateway programmes are available to senior students.

A dedicated Careers Centre Nga Umanga (A1) is available for students to access career resources. In addition to year level programmes, individual career advice is available to help students & their family with planning. Advice on career assessment tools is available to assist students to set goals for the future. To make family appointments see contact details below.