Grade 9
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From Kits school
e-news 2009 Nov. 2
ATTENTION GRADE
9’s: TAKE OUR KIDS TO WORK DAY 2009 - Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Take Our Kids to
Work™ Day is an annual national program in which grade 9 students are
hosted by parents, relatives and volunteers at workplaces across the
country. The program supports career development by helping students
connect school, the world of work and their own futures. To arrange to
pick up a permission form, email edorsemain@vsb.bc.ca or see your
counsellor Ms. Pitman. Permission forms can also be found and printed
out by visiting http://www.thelearningpartnership.ca
Return your permission form ASAP.
National Take our Grade 9
Students To Work Day, November 7, 2007
National Take our Grade 9
Students To Work Day, November 1, 2006
http://www.takeourkidstowork.ca
Nov. 14, 2006
Submitted by:
Suzie McArthur, Grade 9 Counsellor
'Take Our Kids to Work Day' was a great success. At least 50% of the
Grade
9 class participated in a wide variety of occupations. Just to give you
an
idea of the diversity of work places that our students visited, I have
compiled
a list of some of the parents' occupations/work places:
- Graphic Design
- Financial Planning
- Hairdressing
- Teacher
- Film Technician
- City TV
- Jewellery
- Real Estate
- Architecture
- Waste Management
- Bakery
- Vancouver Aquarium
- Landscape Gardening
- Nursing
- Pharmacist
- Dental Hygiene
- Auto Body Technician
- Set Design
- Meteorology
- Lawyer
- Personal Fitness Instructor -
Physiotherapist
- Accountant
- Massage Therapy
- Computer Technician
- Librarian
- UBC - Dept. of Justice, Biology, Institute of
Aging,
Chemistry Dept.
Forestry Dept., Math Dept. and Geography Dept.
The parents seemed to really enjoy having their sons/daughters with
them
for the day. Some of the comments from their evaluation forms were:
- “This is a great idea - it was fun having my son at
work
for a day”
- “Highly recommend this program - good for the kids
to
see how
parents actually spend their day”
- “It gave my daughter very good appreciation of my
work
day and also
the length of time at work”
- “They should have a take our kids to work day every
year.
Grade
9,10, 11 & 12
- “ Make sure students get to do this every year,
it's
a great
learning experience”
- “Their experiences could become part of a public
speaking
program”
The students also seemed to enjoy the day as indicated by their
comments
on the Student Evaluation forms: I particularly enjoyed reading their
comments
as to whether the experience had been useful to them in their future
career
planning:
- “ Yes, because now I've seen what a registered
nurse
has to do
working with technology and keeping the patients in stable condition”
- “Yes, because now I know how unbearable an office
job
is”
- “Yes, because I want to be an architect when I grow
up.
It gave me a
goal in life”
- “Yes, because I've realized that whatever job I
choose,
communication and diplomacy skills are key”
- “Yes, because now I can make a better decision on
whether
I want to
go into sciences, using mainly my experiences in the lab today”
- “Yes, because you have to choose a job you enjoy
and
also work is
work and not horsing around. Once you have a job it becomes serious”
“Probably, because now I have an idea how to work in the 'real world' “
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