Careers Department Mission Statement

New Plymouth Girls' High School will provide appropriate career development for all students at all levels that will compliment and form an integral part of the complete secondary education provided by the school for each student.

The Careers Department
The New Plymouth Girls' High School Careers Department provides career development assistance to students as well as support for parents / caregivers to do this in a number of ways that include

Career advice, guidance and counselling
This career development assistance is available to all students at all levels. Careers advice is provided by all staff. Careers guidance and Careers counselling is provided by the appropriate Careers Department staff member.

Classroom subject curriculum programmes
The curriculum subjects are supported with the provision relevant career development education information

STAR (Secondary Tertiary Alignment Resource)
STAR programmes make specific classroom based vocational education available inside and outside the normal school classroom.

The Gateway programme
The Gateway Programme provides specific vocational learning that is completed in both the classroom and workplace.

Employment Skills Core Curriculum
Employment skills teaches job seeking skills and life skills to students at years 11 and 12 with opportunity to gain unit standard credits in this subject area range.

Career information
Comprehensive career information in a range of media, encompassing jobs, job seeking and job training is available to all students from the NPGHS Careers Centre in B Block, the school library.

Youth Apprenticeship Scheme
The Youth Apprenticeship Scheme targets students for and makes apprenticeship training and associated paid work available to students while continuing other studies at school