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We know that the world of work for students these days is going to be completely different to the world of work for us.

That's why we've developed our curriculum around these entrepreneurial capabilities and mindsets.

We group students based on their areas of passion and purpose, whether that's in the sporting industry, the performing arts, or wanting to find a voice in modern media.

There's programs for all students based on what they want to achieve.

We just want students to feel like they have a sense of belonging and ownership over their learning and having agency on their own learning is the first step to that.

We co-develop and co-deliver the curriculum with industry.

So oftentimes we have industry in the classroom where students can have a real sense of what it's like in that industry and in that community.

The Changemakers Voices in Modern Media Program gives our 10, 11 and 12 students the opportunity to work with collaborators in media from social media to journalists to filmmakers, and to learn about the ways that we can use those different types of media to speak up about issues that students are passionate about.

Having it as like a direct requirement feels like it feels strange.

It's it's kind of like radical in a way. So as part of this program, the students got to go to the podcasting studio pod-booth, they got to observe each other as part of that, so, using each other as resources in their learning, and it was such a fantastic experience.

Welcome to The End, the podcast that covers the ending of the most famous TV shows, and we talk about whether they're good or not.

It's a really good opportunity to explore all those mediums of media and kind of find which one’s a fit for you.

The Changemakers Program has really helped with the realities of literacy by seeing the way that literacy is used in these real world scenarios it's given that value to students.

It gives our students the opportunity to see what it's like in a workplace where you do get to have a say in what you do and what you achieve. That is real life.

Why should school be any different?

And of course, that has a significant impact on their achievement because they have ownership of what they get to learn about how they get to present their learning and who they get to work with.

We find that all students in high school can find success regardless of their background or what they're coming into the class with.

With our applied environmental science subject where students are gardening and looking after the community garden at the school.

I think this is going to be a really useful skill in the future, being able to grow my own food and sustain myself.

We get to nurture things, grow plants, it's very fulfilling to see something that you've cared for, trying to grow into something that you can eat on your plate.

Absolutely love it.

So they have a real understanding of the sorts of things that they might want to do post school.

They can identify pathways, opportunities in areas that they've already identified they have a passion for learning in.

If you get students connected, they feel like they're engaged and they're learning.

The trade off, apart from it being more meaningful learning, is that they achieve better results.

The best part about my job is getting to engage with students and encouraging them to talk about what they are passionate about.

Teaching kids to read effectively, teaching kids to think critically about the issues that they are facing and to speak up is something that's so powerful for our young people.

They are going to be the ones to fix the world.

So I'm really excited to have been part of that.

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