Aidan Pascoe Signing In

Hi, my name is Aidan Pascoe, this is my first year in the KEFL Program and it’s already been great! Just hearing about all the cool stuff we get up to including the camps we are going on is exciting. That’s just one of the many reasons why I want to be in KEFL. Other reasons are the paid school based traineeship, less classes and great people in the program to work with.

I am the second oldest in my family of 4 brothers and 1 sister and I live with my dad, step mum and my younger brother since my mum and step dad have moved to Queensland with my baby brother.

Career goals for me would have to be finishing school and my traineeship, then moving on to a full time apprenticeship and getting a trade. I also want to get some certificates from the KEFL program at TAFE, the course I am doing at TAFE is engineering, this allows me to get more hands on work, rather than loads of paperwork and making a few projects, while also getting good at different types of welding projects.

In school I’m going to be aiming to get good grades in maths, English and outdoor education over the next 2 years. With so little time at school I am going to make sure I hand in all work on time and work to the best I can without distraction. I am looking forward to the next 2 years of camps and being with a good group of people, getting a trade and having great friends to do everything with, there’s not much I’m not looking forward to in the future just getting past any problems that may be happening in life.

See you over the next two years!- Pascoe.

Dillan Kuiper Checking In!

Hi, my name is Dillan Kuiper, I’ve just started year 11 & my first year in the KEFL program. I wanted to be in KEFL because it opened up a much more enjoyable way for myself to complete my final schooling years, largely as I enjoy a more hands on approach to learning, plenty of physical activity & hands on work, which I know there will be plenty of in these next two years.

My family consists of myself, my mother, Fiona, my father, Colin, and my older sister, Laura. My parents manage a local hotel together, the Kununurra Country Club.  My older sister, Laura, is currently starting her second year at university, undertaking a Bachelor in Commerce double majoring in Tourism and Hospitality management and Public Relations, she has never been one to do things by halves if you can’t tell from that degree.

I was born in Perth, and moved to Kununurra when I was only two years old, so this is the only place I have ever really known. I have schooled at Kununurra District High School for all of my schooling years, so since kindy, up to present day.

I like playing a lot of sport, i.e. soccer, rugby and occasionally AFL, basically any sport that’s offered, I’ll play at the time. My other interests largely consist of playing with lighting and sound gear, as I have been doing it since I was about 9 years old and have a bit of a knack for theatrical lighting and most technology in general.

My traineeship has been organised to be undertaken at C&S Jolly Electrics over the next two years. My chosen TAFE course is Engineering as it has some electrical components that will go well with my chosen traineeship, also because I enjoy building/making things.

Upon completing school I am yet to decide what I shall do. I am tossing up between an electrical apprenticeship, or to apply to the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA for short), to do an Advanced theatrical lighting production & design course double majoring in production management services. Before doing that though I would love to go on a gap year and travel somewhere nice and cold, where I can snowboard as much as I wish, probably somewhere like Canada or somewhere in Europe.

For this year I hope to complete the year with high grades in Maths, English, and Outdoor Education, hopefully a minimum of a B in each, an A would be awesome though. To generally improve upon my grades from last year would be great.

I’m looking forward to most of this year, mainly for myself I’m looking forward to enjoying school for the first time in years, I think that will be the best thing for me. I’m also looking forward to all of the hands on work, I can’t stand sitting at a desk for hours doing bookwork, so it’s basically like torture for my mind, so all the hands on work will keep me focused. What I’m not looking forward to doing the pregnancy testings on the cows, personally having my arm inside a cow is not my ideal way to spend my time, for obvious reasons. Also the pain I’ll be in after the Outdoor Ed trips won’t be the best, so I’m not looking forward to that so much.

Dillan Out!

Introducing Braydo Field!

Yeah my names Braydon,

I just got into year 11 into the KEFL program. I chose this course because it’s the one that best suited me. I’m not really interested in UNI or having school every day. Working, camping and other activities sounded 10x more appealing to me than the other school pathways did.

I was originally born in Melbourne but travelled around Australia until we found ourselves in Kununurra. I started school here in year 2 and have been here ever since. I really just enjoy getting out, mostly out bush because the town never has anything to offer. Also chilling with mates is always good.

The traineeship I’m getting into is electrical. Electrical is something I've been interested in for a while and have been doing electrical work for a few months now with a local business. So I’m thinking of continuing that and working my way to an apprenticeship in this trade.

At TAFE I’m taking an engineering course which is pretty enjoyable. Done a semester of it last year and found it the better course to do. I did a bit of automotive but that didn't actually take my fancy.

When I leave school, I’m planning on getting an apprenticeship like I said before. I did want to leave this year and get one but I’m now thinking of finishing year 12 first. But it really depends on what happens, if I get offered it or not.

All my goals for any subjects are just to improve on getting my grades up. My subjects for the next 2 years are English, Maths and Outdoor Education. But really, my main goals are just to achieve way better grades that I did over the past years of schools. B’s would be good but I’d settle for a C considering that’s passing.

The main things I’m looking forward to are probably all the agriculture camps and outdoorsy type of things. Also, looking to all the payed work we do, instead of it just being work experience, it’s a traineeship that we’ll be getting payed for.

At first, I wasn't looking forward to the schoolwork. To be honest, who is though? Even though there are only 3 days of it, I still just wanted to do all hands on work. But the work isn't all that bad, we are learning useful things for a change, so I’m pretty happy about that.

Catch you around…

Introducing "DOLLY" Thomas

Hi, my name is Doralyn Thomas but I preferred to be called Dolly most of the time. I’m 16 in June and I lived in Kununurra for one and a half years. I wanted to be in KEFL because, the program is a school-based traineeship program and I’ll be more experienced when I finish school and want to get a full time job.

I was born in Derby and lived there for two years then moved to Warmun. Those who don’t know where Warmun is; its 100km east from Kununurra. Warmun is where my father is from and I was living there ever since I was three years old, up until I was old enough to go schooling away. My likes are fishing, camping and spending time with the families back in Warmun. My dislikes are moving away from home and having to make new friends in new places.

I’m doing my traineeship at Commonwealth bank, which I’m really happy about and because I’m interested in Business. At TAFE I’m doing a Certificate 11 in Business and when I leave school I want to be a full time Human Resource Officer in a mine site in Australia.

My goal is to achieve a C or B grade in Maths and English. In Outdoor Education I want to get better at the skills and be good at Canoeing because it’s my first time canoeing. So far it is not as hard as I anticipated. I am looking forward to participating in all the activities in KEFL particularly the Agriculture components. I’m looking forward to learning many different things while I’m in KEFL and there isn’t anything I’m not looking forward too.

Until next time… Dolly J

Introducing the new KEFL'ers!

The year 11 KEFL students have been working hard on their first ever blog entry!
Stay tuned for their introductions.