Partners Porirua
Our Mission
To facilitate partnerships between businesses, the educational sector and other organisations to excite youth about the working world.
Our services include:
- bringing mentors from the business world to assist teachers with educational projects, making science, technology, health, and community work more relevant for today's young people
- exciting youth about the working world with work experience, information about careers, mentoring, training and job placement
Our Address:
The Employment Hub
www.poriruahub.org.nz
6 Hagley Street
P.O. Box 50 462
Porirua
ph: 2371099
fax: 2371101
Bishop Viard students working with keep Porirua Beautiful and the Sustainability Trust
Developing Youth for the Working World
Students from Cannons Creek School designed signage at Cornwall Park 07
It's never too soon to enthuse young people about the working world whether they are primary school children or young adults about to leave school to start their working lives. With that mission in mind Partners Porirua brings business people into schools to create enthusiasm, transfer skills and show how employment is relevant to our lives.
enthusing young people about the working world is the first stage in ensuring that all our young people can contribute towards and participate in the benefits of a healthy and functioning society."
We start by ensuring that young people, from primary and intermediate schools, understand the relevance, the value and the meaning of the working world. We introduce them to the role models, the scientists, the community people, the engineers and technologists. We help them to look at their neighborhoods from a work perspective, to look at the environment, to examine technology, to consider sustainability and simply to undertake projects that are of value to the community. Through that exposure we excite them about the working world.
Some of our recent projects with local primary schools include investigations based around water. Rangikura School worked with Opus on pool water testing. Brandon Intermediate made a study of kai from the sea with NIWA
When they are older and about to leave school Partners Porirua introduces young people to the working world by identifying their strengths and interests, introducing them to the options, advising them on further education or work experience opportunities and ultimately guiding them towards the workplace.
The strength of Partners Porirua is in building relevant relationships between businesses, schools and the community to benefit our young people.