CONNECTION to community is key at Kurri Kurri High, which aims to use partnerships to show students how skills they're learning translate to real life.
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Principal Alan Hope said the school had been hosting business breakfasts for 10 years.
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It showcases what students are learning to around 100 businesses and organisations, which it asks to consider hosting students for work experience or school based apprenticeships or traineeships.
It also asks these businesses and organisations to help explain to students how the skills they are learning apply to future roles or sectors.
The school may ask these businesses and organisations to participate in speed careers day.
Mr Hope said the school had formed close links with the university and hoped to bring every grade to visit a campus this year.
"By allowing students to see those things more, to see them earlier, I think they realise that things that perhaps may have seemed unattainable in the past for people that lived away from the university or didn't live in a town that had a university [are possible]," he said.
"We're trying to create opportunities for students to see where else education can take them... we really believe that if the kids can see what those opportunities are from a young age, the goal setting and the aspiration can begin."
He said students were "absolutely" exploring a broader range of options since these initiatives, including outside the Hunter.
"There's a bit more determination and optimism around the fact they can go and do anything."
He said some were still interested in jobs in the mines, but now wanted to also gain an apprenticeship, trade or formal qualification to build their career.
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