Implementation Process

How we did what we did

Key Milestones / Accomplishments:

• 86% of students in 2019 used the explorers program to inform their subject selections

• Students have a deeper knowledge of real-life jobs where they can utilise their own unique strengths.

Rooty Hill High School PEF Award submission – Secretary’s Award for an Outstanding School Initiative

Supplementary Materials:

• This link is to the 2017 report – Paradigm Shifters – entrepreneurial learning in schools in which Rooty Hill High was the lead school for 10 other secondary schools in NSW pursuing innovative approaches to social entrepreneurship and work and enterprise learning. To view the report click here

• This link is to the ACARA case studies on general capabilities and career education. It features students, teachers and the principal speaking about the Year 10 Young Entrepreneurs Program (YEP) and how it builds the confidence and capacity of students to make good subject, career and transition choices. To view the entire case study, click here

• The school is also featured in a range of related case studies that can be accessed on request and were outlined in the 2018 RHHS Annual Report. Please click here to view the 2018 Annual Report, please click here.

• Social Ventures Australia Powerhouse School (alumni) – this is one of a number of descriptive case studies of the work of the school in entrepreneurial learning. To view the case study click here.

• The school’s submission to the Review of Senior Secondary Pathways (commissioned by the Education Council in 2019) was identified as exemplary (see one excerpt below from an 11 page submission where the school described its entrepreneurial learning partnerships). The school was invited to join the Review consultation group and the case study (see below) will be published in the final report – due for release in June.