A Building trades training program for high school students at Brighton Estate at Butler has won a Prime Minister’s award.
The skills training program caters for Clarkson Community High School Year 11 students. The school collaborated with developer Satterly to establish the facility in response to growth in demand for trades and chronic shortages in the building trades.
Plans for an indoor 50m swimming pool and health centre at Butler have progressed after funding was announced last week.
The department of Sport and Recreation approval an application by Sol Health for 2.5million to help build and run the $15 million facility, which will be at the corner of Lukin and Connolly drives.
Clarkson Community High School goalkeeper Natalie Woods has some of the safest hands in the business.
Her work between the posts helped the school's junior team win the northern final of the Champions Schools' Trophy, now known as the Glory Cup.
Clarkson and Mindarie primary schools students celebrated Book Week with a variety of activities organised by Clarkson Community High School students.
Just about everything you would want to know about health, you will find at Clarkson Community High School's Well Being Expo on Wednesday, September 12.
Everything from asthma to cancer, driving, sport and diet will be covered in displays and demonstrations when the school is opened to the public from 2pm to 6pm.
Clarkson musical instrument maker Phil Mendel has been keen on the didgeridoo for more than 30 years.
Mr Mendel recently out six students from Clarkson Community High School through the first of six lessons they are being offered in how to play the ancient musical instrument.
The State Governement announced on Saturday it would spend $12.44 million building a construction, building and electrical trades training centre in Clarkson.
The centre, to be built on vacant land at Clarkson Community High School, would be part of West Coast TAFE. It is expected to open in 2009.
The State Government needs to allocate more than $10 million in its 2007-08 budget to fund a TAFE campus in the northern suburbs, says Mindarie MLA John Quigley.
It is called The Shed, and it is the powerhouse of a new program for students learning the basics of the building trade.
The Satterly Property Group has started a pre-apprenticeship training program to reduce the shortage of skilled trades people in the building industry - and 24 Year 11 students from Clarkson Community High School are its first group of learners.
