Hi my name is Shiriya Barnes; I am a year 11 student at Kununurra District High School in the KEFL program. KEFL stands for Kimberly Education for life. This program is only available to year 11 and 12 students at Kununurra District High School. In KEFL we spend one day in the first term and 2 the next 3 terms at a school based traineeship at Business in our community, we attend school for 2-3 days a week and 1 day at TAFE doing a Certificate II in either community service, business, engineering or automotive.
For outdoor education this year we will be going out canoeing, kayaking and mountain bike riding. We will be attending a series of camps, some at the Gibb station and others canoeing and mountain biking. As a part of the program we will be doing our bronze medallion, our skippers’ ticket, senior first aid and our end of year WACE.
Our Certificate II in Agriculture we will be doing a welding course at TAFE to get our welding tickets. We will be going out to the Gibb Station to do fencing, castrating, branding cattle, cutting their horns and lots of other activities.
I was born in South Africa on the 18th of June 1998. I grew up speak English but mostly Afrikaans. I was at a Afrikaans school till I was 8, and then got home schooled English for a year and a half, before moving to Australia. I moved to Australia in 2009 with my Mum, Dad and younger sister. We first lived in Dunsborough for half a year then to Kununurra in 2010, were I started year 6 at Kununurra District High School.
I chose to do the KEFL program because of the variety and for the experience. It’s a once in a life time experience and I honestly feel so lucky that I got to be a part of this program, because I know that this program will give me a lot of experience and confidence that’s going to pay a huge part to my future.
The things that most interested me most about this program is the experience we get from our traineeship and camps, helping us become more confident in certain situations.
I chose Business as my field of employment because it is connected to what I might want to do as part of my future career.
My long term education goal is to ace my maths and English, get good grades in my end of year report and get the right amount of points to get my WACE certificate at the end of year 12. My long term career gaol at the moment is to get into the police academy in Perth and become part of WA’s law enforcement.
I don’t think there will be anything too difficult for me in KEFL. I love challenges and trying new things. I also feel very confident in the school work set out for me and I know if I put in a hundred precent effort I will get good results.
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