English

Vocational education and training pathways are supported through NCEA. We visited some schools to find out how their work programmes are preparing students for work or further training.

Well, what our children are doing came about from an idea amongst the farms in Ruatoki valley, and it's a programme that our children are really interested in, because the farms they're working on are their own, firstly. And secondly, they're on their own land, so their efforts benefit their relatives and their sub-tribes.  And we saw the wisdom in that idea.

It's more in line with how we learn naturally. When you're teaching our children to work together at the marae, we don't say, ‘Here’s the manual. Go sit over there and learn how to set the tables, and all that.’ Everything is hands-on, everything, and this ITO, and all these programmes are more relevant to our children in that way.

So we have a group doing ITO farming, pest control, work experience. We also have a radio station.

Good morning, everyone! Mōrena, tātau, e te kura. Some of the skills I've learnt are how to lift my spirits, and lift others' spirits, and strengthen my broadcasting language. I might pursue this path in this field later in my life, but that's in time. I'll think about it.

So all our water-blasting, our cleaning of our tanker loop.

So last year was our first year of starting. 2020, 2021 season is when we took the students on. So we had decided we’d take on 12 students, have a tutor from Primary ITO, Monday, Tuesday, we just pretty much come here on farm, do a health and safety training, and then plan our day.

I can do work on the farm but I can't do the work in school. 

So at the end of the year we found with the students they got very confident, a pleasure to teach, and to have on farm, and the opportunities that we could see them going into. So some of the students already had plans, and so we thought for ourselves - we've achieved something and off they were going.

So we were like, the programme we thought was successful and worked for us. I’d recommend it to those who are keen to learn, and those who don't like being locked away in classes. If you come to the farm, you want to come to the farm.
Like if it keeps you in school then yeah, I recommend you go on this course.

Here, however, while they're working, behind them they are supported by their school, by their teachers, by their families and by their tribe. That's important. 

The importance of the skills that they learn actually makes them become more independent and more confident in anything.
So for me, that’s the main importance of vocational guidance - to bring out those potentials that they have within them, make them aware of it, and use them. Use them for a better future for themselves. Yes, and for us as a community.

Te Reo Māori

Mā te NCEA e tautoko ngā huarahi ahumahi me ngā huarahi whakangungu. I toro atu mātau ki ētahi kura kia whai mārama ka pēhea ā rātau hōtaka ahumahi e takatū ai ngā ākonga mō te mahi me te ako ki tua o te kura.

Nō reira ko ngā mahi kai te mahia e ā mātau tamariki i tipu mai i roto i te whakairo i waenganui i ngā pāmu i roto i tō mātau whārua o Ruatoki, ā, he kaupapa tēnei ka ngākau nuihia e ā mātau tamariki nō te mea nō rātau ake ngā pāmu e mahi nei rātau i runga, ka tahi.

Tuarua, i runga tonu i ō rātau whenua, nō reira ko ō rātau hekenga werawera ka hoki atu ki ō rātau ake uri, ō rātau hapū.

Nō reira, i kite mātau i te māramatanga i roto i tērā whakaaro.  E hāngai pū ana ki te āhua o tā mātau ako.

I te wā e whakaakona ana ngā tamariki ki te mahi tahi i te marae kāore e pēnei: 'Anei te puka. Haere ki kō, noho ai, ka ako ki te hora i te tēpu, me ērā āhuatanga.' He ako ā-ringa te mahi - katoa he pēnā, ka mutu, e hāngai ake ana tēnei ITO me ēnei hōtaka ki ā mātau tamariki i tērā āhuatanga.

Ana, he rōpū e mahi ana i tā te ITO mō te mahi pāmu, mō te here kīrea me te whai wheako i te ahumahi. He reo irirangi hoki tō mātau. 

Mōrena, tātau, e te kura. Ko ētahi o ngā pūkenga kua akongia e au ko te whakahiki i taku wairua, te whakahiki i ngā wairua a ētahi atu te whakakaha ake i taku reo pāpāho.

Tēnā pea ka whai ahau i tētahi huarahi i runga i tēnei momo mahi mō taku ao anamata, engari mā te wā ka whakaarohia e au.

Nā, ko tā tātau horoi mā te pū wai, tā tātau horoi i te ara porohita.

Ana, i tīmata ēnei mahi i tērā tau. I tīmata ā mātau ākonga i te tau 2020-2021.

I puta tā mātau whakatau kia 12 ngā ākonga, i raro i tētahi kaiako nō te Ahumahi Mātāmua o ITO, I ngā Mane me ngā Tūrei ka haere noa mai mātau ki konei ki te mahi pāmu, ka whakangungua ki ngā mahi hauora me te noho haumaru kātahi ka whakarite i tō mātau rā. tahi - rua

Ka taea e au te mahi ngā mahi i runga i te pāmu, ā, kāre au e taea te mahi i roto i te kura.

I te mutunga o te tau i kite ake mātau  i te tino māia o ngā ākonga, ka mutu, i rawe rātau hai ākonga i runga i te pāmu, i rawe hoki ngā huarahi i wātea ake rā ki a rātau.

He whakaritenga kē ā ētahi o ngā ākonga, nā rēira, i mahara ake mātau kua tutuki tā mātau i whai ai, ā, kua haere rātau.
Nā reira i mahara rā mātau, he angitu te kaupapa, ka mutu i whaihua ki a mātau.

E tautoko ana au i tā ētahi atu whai i tēnei huarahi ako, i te whai a te hunga kāre e pai kia herea ki te karaehe.

Ki te haramai koe ki te pāmu, ka pīrangi haramai ki te pāmu,

Nā, mēnā mā konei koe e noho tonu ai  ki te kura, kāti, e akiaki ana au i  a koutou kia whāia tēnei akoranga.

Engari i konei, i a rātau e mahi ana i muri i a rātau e tautokohia ana rātau e te kura, e ō rātau kaiako, e ō rātau whānau, e ō rātau hapū. He mea nui tērā.

Nā te hiranga o ngā pūkenga e ākona ana ka tū pakari rātau i te ao ka māia hoki te tū, ahakoa te mahi.

Nō reira ki a au nei, koinā te hiranga o te ārahi ā-rehe nei - e puāwai ai ērā pūmanawa kai roto tonu i a rātau, me te whai kia mārama rātau ki tērā taha, me te huarahi hai whakaputa i ērā mea.

Hai whakaputa i ērā pūmanawa hai painga mō rātau i ngā tau kai te heke mai, mō mātau hoki, mō te hapori.
 

English

Vocational education and training pathways are supported through NCEA. We visited a few schools and kura to look at how their vocational programmes are preparing students for work, further training, or study.

At Palmerston North Boys’ High School, we developed the vocational pathways and programmes because what we found was that 10 years ago we had 183 boys, and 140 of them were going to university. But over the last few years, those numbers have changed significantly. So now we'll have 300 Year 13 boys, and so we needed to develop something to make a meaningful programme for those young men who didn't see tertiary education at university as a pathway.

Obviously with the world of work in the way it is and the demand for trades, etc., we needed to change with those times and that's why these programmes have come on board.

We've got boys down at UCOL who are doing things from mechanical engineering, to construction, to barbering, and then we've also got our Gateway students here who are also doing a range of different areas as well.

We offer a wide variety of different trades academy places for students while they're at school, including equine, agriculture, horticulture, fish farming, beekeeping. Yeah, a whole range. The students that come with us are highly sought after in the industry. Potential employers know they have the basic skills and the understanding of what is required in the industry.

It's real good for the people that don't want to go to uni because it gives you a bit of exposure to your working life if you want to go down that pathway. Yeah, it gives you a bit of a first-hand encounter before you do decide to leave school.

So we've had a longstanding relationship with Palmerston North Boys' High. We use the Gateway programme initially with either Year 12 or 13 students. They come on out one day a week and spend some time in the factory, and then that creates an opportunity for us to bring them in initially as laborers, and then offer them apprenticeship opportunities.

I started in Gateway at school, and then got offered an apprenticeship. It gives you that sort of stepping stone into it because it can seem quite daunting to walk into a big company like this, and you're just this small, and just having that little stepping stone to sort of bridge the gap makes a huge difference.

Yeah, I absolutely believe the vocational pathways programme is going to be massive for New Zealand going forward.

Our role as a school is not just to train people through exams to go to university. It's for life after school, and if something we've been able to offer our young men has been successful in getting them into something that they really want to do, then to me, that's a success.

Te Reo Māori

E tautokona ana ngā ara o te mātauranga me te whakangungu ā-rehe mā te NCEA.

I toro atu mātou ki ētahi kura kia tirohia te āhua o tā ā rātou hōtaka ā-rehe whakarite i ngā ākonga kia uru ki te ao mahi rānei, ki ngā ara whakangungu i tua atu rānei, ki te whai mātauranga rānei.

I Te Kura Tuarua o Te Papaioea mō ngā Tama, i waihangahia ngā ara me ngā hōtaka ā-rehe inā hoki i kitea e mātou i te 10 tau ki muri 183 katoa ā mātou tama, ā, ko te 140 o aua tama i haere ki te whare wānanga.

Engari i ngā tau torutoru kua hori, e tāpua ana te panonitanga o aua nama. Nā, ināianei ka 300 ngā tama Tau 13, nā konā me waihanga mātou i tētahi hōtaka whaihua mā aua taitama kāore i kite atu i te mātauranga kura tuatoru i te whare wānanga hei ara mō rātou

Nā, e ariari ana nā te āhua o te ao me te pīrangitia o ngā mahi ā-rehe, arā noa atu, kua tika tā mātou urutau ki aua wā, koia hoki i whai wāhi mai ai ēnei hōtaka.

Kei Te Pae Mātauranga ki te Ao ētahi o ā mātou tama e mahi ana i ngā mahi pēnei i te mātai pūkaha, i te whakatūtū whare, i te kutikuti makawe, tae noa atu ki ā mātou ākonga Gateway e mahi ana  i roto i ngā kaupapa whānui anō hoki Whakarato ai mātou i ngā tūranga kura mahi ā-rehe mō ngā ākonga i a rātou i te kura tonu, tae noa atu ki te tiaki hōiho, ki te ahuwhenua, ki te ahumāra, ki te whakatipu ika, ki te tiaki pī anō hoki.

Āe, e whānui ana. Ko ngā ākonga e whai mai ana i a mātou ērā e tino pīrangitia ana i te ahumahi.

E mōhio ana ngā kaiwhakawhiwhi mahi kei a rātou ngā pūkenga matua me te māramatanga ki ngā mahi e tika ana i te ahumahi.

E tino whaihua ana ki te hunga kāore i te pīrangi haere ki te whare wānanga i te mea ka paku whai wāhi atu ki te ao mahi mēnā koe e pīrangi ana ki te whai i taua ara.

Āe, ka whai wāhi kia motuhenga te paku whakamātau atu i mua i tō whakatau kia wehe i te kura.

Nā, kua mauroa tō mātou hononga  ki Te Kura Tuarua o Te Papaioea mō ngā Tama.

Ka whakamahi i te hōtaka Gateway mō ngā ākonga Tau 12, Tau 13 rānei hei tīmatanga.

Ka puta rātou i te kotahi rā i ia wiki, ā, ka noho atu mō tahi wā ki te wheketere me te whakatakoto i te ara kia tōia atu rātou ki roto nāwai, hei kaimahi, kātahi ka tukuna ngā tūranga pia ki a rātou.

I tīmata au i te Gateway i te kura, kātahi ka tukuna mai he tūranga pia ki a au. I noho hei ara kia paku whakamātauria atu inā hoki ka āhua whakawehiwehi te kuhu i tētahi kamupene nui pēnei i tēnei, ā, he pēnei tō paku ka mutu, mā te whai ara pēnā hei arawhiti i te āputa ka tino whaihua.

Āe, e whakapono katoa ana ahau ki te hōtaka ara ā-rehe hei kaupapa nui whakaharahara i Aotearoa haere ake nei. Ehara i te mea ko tā mātou mahi hei kura he whakangungu noa i te tangata mā te whakamātautau kia haere ki te whare wānanga.

Mō te ao ā muri i te kura, ā, mēnā rānei ko tētahi o ngā mea kua tukuna e mātou ki ā mātou taitama kua whaihua i tā rātou whai I tētahi mahi e tino kaingākautia ana, ki a au, koia ko te angitu.
 

English

Vocational education and training pathways are supported through NCEA. We visited a few schools and kura to look at how their vocational programmes are preparing students for work, further training, or study.

Geraldine High School Primary Industry Academy is able to offer students the chance to have a go at a wide range of primary sectors. So, for example, dairy farming, arable, contracting, sheep and beef, and also the service industries that sit alongside those.

So the Primary Industry Academy has been going for 10 years and we have about 40 students this year in it, which is our largest number that we've had. The main benefit for vocational training is you're actually working with a business organisation and actually becoming familiar with what that lifestyle looks like, what that job or that possible career could be.

I really think this class that we do at Geraldine is really beneficial because I myself learn better from practical, hands-on stuff. So it's definitely so good to be able to do agriculture as a subject in class and then do this and it's outside of class stuff.

So I take great pride in seeing people progress through this industry, and seeing the next generation come and get into farming. That's one thing that we really struggle with - is to entice people into this industry, so to have young people on the farm, doing what they do is, is really exciting.

They certainly enjoy it, and you get them in there and you're building their confidence. So they know that that, yes I can do this, basically. It's great for their self-esteem and it just gives them total confidence.

When the students head out onto farm, and they make a good impression, and they show good work ethic, we're finding that a lot of the farms are creating a job for the student that they've got.

Oh, we were in the truck one day and Kelly said, he's like, You realise you've got a job here? And I said no, but now I do.

He's keen. He's very practical. We can set him a task and you know he's going to do it to the best of his ability.

Education has changed a lot in the last few years in terms of we used to predominantly be offering a university kind of styled curriculum, and across the whole country, most schools now are actually looking at the ranges of other opportunities that exist. It's important because it's actually about meeting the needs of our individual students and what their passions are.

It's so amazing in that it keeps students that potentially would have dropped out. They'll stay at school for that little bit longer. They'll grow up mature. And so then by the time they come out, they can cope with the big wide world, and it's actually the vocational pathway that has done that for them. And that's where a lot of our students, for the first time ever, will succeed, and that's so awesome.
 

Te Reo Māori

E tautokona ana ngā ara o te mātauranga me te whakangungu ā-rehe mā te NCEA. I toro mātou ki ētahi kura kia tirohia te āhua o tā ā rātou hōtaka ā-rehe whakarite i ngā ākonga kia uru ki te ao mahi rānei, ki ngā ara whakangungu i tua atu rānei, ki te whai mātauranga rānei.

E kaha ana te Kura Ahumahi Mātāmua o te Kura Tuarua o Geraldine ki te whakawātea i ētahi ara ki ngā ākonga e whakamātauria ai ētahi momo rāngai ahumahi mātāmua e whānui ana.

Hei tauira, ko te pāmu kau, ko te ngakinga, ko te huanga ahuwhenua, ko te hipi me te kau, tae atu ki ngā ahumahi ratonga i te taha o ērā.

Kua 10 tau ngā mahi o te Kura Ahumahi Mātāmua e rere ana, ā, tōna 40 ā mātou ākonga kei roto i taua kura i tēnei tau, otirā, koirā te tokomaha nui katoa ā mohoa. 

Ko te painga matua o te whakangungu ā-rehe, ko te mahi ki tētahi whakahaere ā-pakihi tonu me te taunga haere ki te āhua o tērā ao, ki te āhua rānei o taua mahi, o taua umanga rānei e wātea ana.

E tino whakapono ana au e tino whai painga ana te karaehe nei e tū nei ki Geraldine nā te mea ka pai ake tāku nei ako i ngā kaupapa whai wheako me ngā mahi ā-ringa.

Nō reira, e pai mārika ana te kaha ki te mahi ahuwhenua hei kaupapa i roto i te karaehe kātahi ka puta ki te mahi pēnei, ka mutu, he mahi ka mahia ki waho i te karaehe.

E ngākau whakapuke ana ki te kite ake i te tangata e koke ana mā tēnei ahumahi, me te kite i te reanga o muri e whai ana i ngā mahi pāmu.

Koirā tētahi o ngā uauatanga ki a mātou - ko te poapoa i te tangata ki tēnei ahumahi, nō reira, e tino whakaihiihi ana i te taenga mai o te taiohi ki te pāmu ki te mahi i ā rātou mahi.

E tino pārekareka ana te mahi ki a rātou, ka whakakuhungia atu, ka whakapakarihia hoki tō rātou māia, e mōhio ai rātou,  'āe - ka taea e au tēnei mahi'.

E rawe ana hei whakatupu i te kiritau, ā, ka tino māia tā rātou tū. Ka haere ana ngā ākonga ki ngā pāmu, ka whakaatu ana hoki rātou i ō rātou painga me tō rātou pukumahi, e kite ana mātou, he maha ngā pāmu e whakatū tūranga mahi ana mō te ākonga kei a rātou. 

Nā, i te taraka māua i tētahi rā, ka kī a Kelly, hei tāna, E mōhio ana koe he mahi tāu i konei?

Ka mea atu au, 'kāo', engari e mōhio ana ināianei. E ārita ana. E kaha ana te taha wheako. Ka tukuna he mahi hei mahi māna, ā, ka mōhio mātou ka tutuki i a ia ki te taumata pai katoa ka taea e ia.

Kua kaha te huri o te mātauranga i ngā tau torutoru kua taha ake nei otirā, ko te marautanga i kaha whakatakotohia rā i mua, i hāngai kē ki te whare wānanga, ā, puta noa i te motu, ko te nuinga o ngā kura ināianei kei te titiro kē ki te whānuitanga o ngā momo huarahi e wātea ana.

E whakahirahira ana, nā te mea e whakahāngai kē ana mātou i ngā mahi ki ngā hiahia o ā mātou ākonga takitahi nei me ngā kaupapa e kohara ana ki a rātou. Whakamīharo ana tēnei, i te mea, ka noho tonu mai ngā ākonga kua wehe kē pea i te kura i te korenga o te kaupapa nei.

Kua noho tonu rātou ki te kura mō tahi wā paku roa ake. Ka tupu, ka pakeke ngā whakaaro. Ā puta rawa ake ō rātou ihu, kua kaha ki te tū ki te ao whānui, ka mutu, nā te ara mahi ā-rehe i pērā ai te pakari o te tū.

Nā konei, ko te wā tuatahi tēnei e angitu ai te tokomaha tonu o ā mātou ākonga, ā, ka mau te wehi o tērā.