Teacher in Charge: Mrs B. Burnett.
Recommended Prior LearningOpen
Course Description: This course is designed to allow students the opportunity to explore future pathways and develop skills for future employment and learning. Students work on their own individual plan to suit their needs. This can be a mix of study skills, life skills, employment skills, completing Internal assessments, catching up on work missed due to Trades Academy and exploring future pathways. Level 2 VSP involves self-directed learning where students will have flexibility around unit standard choices. There is also an opportunity for students to work alongside a junior student or class as a way of developing employability skills.
Note: Students who are enrolled in a Top of the South Trades Academy course at either NMIT, ETCO, or WIO need to select VSP as their 6th subject.
Assessments: Students complete Learner Guides and then complete the appropriate Unit Standard Assessment.
Prerequisites: Open.
Limitations: Students who are enrolled in Gateway cannot take VSP without the permission of the HOD of Careers.
Those students who are in VSP as they are enrolled in a Top of the South Trades Academy course with NMIT or Whenua Iti Outdoors will use this class to catch up on missed class work. Therefore, the following standards are optional.
Courses offered will be subject to sufficient students taking them up and are not necessarily guaranteed to run.