- Great partnerships often begin with something simple.
At Kelvin Grove State College
a connection with the local hospital began with an idea
and a conversation.
From there, the partnership grew into
a collaborative relationship that not only benefits
the students involved in the programme,
but also industry staff and the local community as a whole.
Schools intentionally collaborate and use a cycle of inquiry
to purposefully and deliberately design, implement
and review new approaches to aspects of their work.
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- Here at the college, we are constantly reviewing
the student opportunities and student pathways
for their futures.
We're constantly looking at what partnerships we can develop
within our community to provide students
with an interface into a career in their local community.
The health hallway programme is part of
our prep to Pathways focus.
Within the health hallways programme, there are so many layers
so they have their own engineering works onsite
at Royal Brisbane Hospital as an example.
They have all their own tradesmen.
They have the care and clinical support
and they have just the day-to-day hospitality
and ward services.
So, there's a whole range
of employment opportunities for our students
two kilometres from where they go to currently go to school.
We connected every section head in the department
with every faculty head in the college
and they have then gone on to explore what is possible.
- I think the idea of this partnership
had been going around in circles for a few years
and everyone agreed it was a fabulous idea.
We decided to just go for it and really link together
Royal Brisbane hospital staff with Kelvin Grove team members
and try to find some like links within the curriculum
and the care that we provide for patients.
And from there, the outcome's very early on,
I must say have been quite delightful
and quite surprising in a lot of ways.
- The health simulation centre here gives us an opportunity
to work with industry professionals
and work at industry standard levels.
So the students can work with trainers,
actual industry experts that have come from the hospital,
and they can really develop their skillset.
- The thing I enjoy most about the health hub
will be the practical side about making the beds,
learning how to do first aid, bandage,
all that kind of stuff that you probably wouldn't learn
by just doing theory.
It's good to have that practical side.
- We get to learn how to make beds, do hospital corners,
which is actually a very fun thing to learn.
It's very tricky to master.
We have learnt how to do CPR on babies and adults
using our CPR dummies and working with a simulator,
a defibrillator machine.
[Liew] We're providing a talent pipeline
whereby we're providing confident and competent young people
who can enter the industry and perform in the world of work.
- When I graduate, I'm going to go to university
just to get that experience, do my three year degree
in emergency paediatric, is the area I want to do
and then after a couple of years
thinking of specialising in midwifery.
- I hope to become a cardiothoracic surgeon
or a paediatric surgeon.
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- This is a big rock for us because the scope for it to grow
and provide pathways for our students is huge.
The other benefit of the partnership
is the impact those specialists have in classrooms
where they come and talk to students
and give them real world contexts about
so this is how this subject applies
to working at Royal Brisbane hospital.
Royal Brisbane and Women's hospital staff,
get to understand the sophistication
of a 21st century student.
The outcomes have been significant and profound.
They've had a massive impact on the students
and the teachers in those spaces
and I think we will see that ripple through
and inform students subject choice.
- I guess the expected outcomes
that we thought would happen are happening
which is the students being supported
in their classrooms with industry experts.
Some real life stories, some experiences, the teachers
gaining opportunistic professional development opportunity
and upskilling within currency of industries.
For us there's initiatives that have started
that will improve the patient experience
of the people that visit us for their care.
Hospital is a big business,
and that business includes obviously finance,
it includes hospitality, it includes engineering.
So, the initiatives has actually branch right out
into all of the different support services that get placed
around caring for people
and so we have students from hospitality
here at Kelvin Grove talking to the massive kitchens
that pump out thousands of meals a day
and looking at what that looks like for the students
to have some experience there.
We have engineering students
looking at coming for some traineeship opportunities
and we have some business students
that are experiencing our business professionals,
finance professionals, legal professionals,
coming to the school here to contribute
to their classroom education.
- The challenges are always around interfacing with industry
because the best programmes are those
that are industry demand driven.
So building those relationships and partnerships
is always a challenge
but once they're made and the relationships are strong,
it's so rewarding and valuable.
- It is around persistent.
It is around authentic commitment and is around investment
and finding or giving your staff time to do this properly
and for what it costs you as an investment initially,
you'll get back 10 fold if it's done properly.
Yeah just causes to nurture globally competent
learners, leaders and citizens.
If we don't explore the opportunities
and possibilities for our students outside of Queensland,
outside of Australia, then we're not authentically
preparing our students with global competence.
- When teams collaborate to deliberately evaluate, plan,
implement and measure programmes
that are relevant to their school context,
it not only helps schools to sharpen the focus
towards strategic goals, but also encourages shared
ownership and leadership of programmes that they deliver
significantly impacting on learning outcomes.
When collaboration extends to partners
in the local community, this becomes even more powerful
as the impact is visible beyond the school gates.
- [Announcer] When we reflect on existing partnerships,
and develop approaches to suit the local context,
this strengthens effective and meaningful pathways planning
and leads to improve student outcomes.
For example, you may wish to consider,
how is your school building connections
and strengthening partnerships with industry
and training providers in the local community?
How can your school work collaboratively
with industry to provide students with enterprise skills
and real world experiences in growing job clusters.
- The department's intentional collaboration website
provides guidance and resources for schools to analyse
some of the ways they make changes to their practise
and how to link those decisions and actions
to a cycle of inquiry.
The inquiry planning template highlights the changes
that educators constantly and intuitively make
in their practise
and provides a structure for thinking more systematically
about the questions and data they use to inform their work.
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