Student Life
Helpful Links
Career links
While in Year 10, all students will have the opportunity to attend an interview with a member of staff. This interview is a career counseling session to help students choose courses for senior school to help them find a pathway towards further education or employment.
Parents are encouraged to attend with their child as the amount of information can be overwhelming to students.
You and your child could look at job opportunities, job descriptions, salaries, and qualifications needed, etc in preparation for finding direction during their schooling years.
The following websites could be helpful in getting an idea of areas of interest for your student.
www.ecu.edu.au
www.curtin.edu.au
www.centrelink.gov.au
www.myfuture.edu.au
www.tisc.edu.au
TISC is an online service regarding all things tertiary.
http://www.tisc.edu.au/static/home.tisc
It is a wealth of information about Western Australian universities and how to get there.
Entry into the public universities in Western Australia is a matching process of the people who want to go to university and the number of places that are available. To assist in this process, Year 12 students are ranked and places offered on the basis of this ranking.
Your TEA will be calculated and then converted to an ATAR, which tells you where you’re ranked relative to other students. This will be the same position as a ranking based on your TEA, but the TEA isn’t able to convey this information directly to you. If you have an ATAR of 70.00, for example, it indicates that you’ve achieved as well as or better than 70% of the Year 12 school leaver age population.
Current year WACE students can access results online up to 1 March of the following year.
You can obtain your ATAR and scaled scores from a past year by completing and submitting the Application for Record of Results with the appropriate fee to TISC.
Health links
Centrecare: www.centrecare.com.au A service for young people and thier families. Counselling for everyday problems, family re connection, day and evenings. Joondalup 08 9300 7300
General Practitioner Services: General practitioners (GPs) are the foundation of primary care. It is the first point of health care delivered to people outside of hospitals. GPs are medical experts, trained to deal with all types of problems including mental illness.
State-Wide Youth-Friendly Gps: http://www.amawa.com.au/public-community-health/in-the-community (GPs who have undertaken specific Youth Friendly GP training by the AMA)
Private Psychiatric Services: Young people and their families are able to be referred by their GP to private psychiatrists and clinical psychologists through Access to Allied Psychological Services (ATAPS).
School Psychologists: There are more than 300 school psychologists working in Western Australia’s public and non-government school system. Parents and students are able to engage with these services directly through their school.
If you or someone you know needs help with a drug or alcohol related problem, please contact one of these centres for professional support.
Alcohol and Drug Support Line Ph. (08) 9442 5000 or Meth Helpline Ph. 1800 874 878 alcoholdrugsupport@mhc.wa.gov.au
Parent and Family Drug Support Line Ph. (08) 9442 5050 alcoholdrugsupport@mhc.wa.gov.au
A directory of alcohol & other drugs services and mental health services in WA
Aboriginal Alcohol and Drug Service: www.aads.org.au/
SDERA: www.sdera.wa.edu.au/
Alcohol And Drug Information Service (ADIS) WA Ph. (08) 9442 5000
Parent Drug Information Service Ph. (08) 9442 5050
Alcohol Rehab: https://www.alcoholrehabguide.org/resources/dual-diagnosis/alcohol-and-depression/
Crisis Care is a telephone information and counselling service for people in crisis needing urgent help. Telephone Crisis Care when:
- You need someone to help sort out a serious problem
- You are concerned about the wellbeing of a child
- You are escaping domestic violence and need help
- Arguments are causing unhappiness and problems in your family
- You are alone or afraid and urgently need to talk to someone
- You are homeless
- You need counselling, information or other supportPh.
- (08) 9223 1111 or free call 1800 199 008