It is hard to believe April has been and gone and we are now well into cold Autumn mornings and waiting for the green break (to break!)
Scenery surrounding the Hamilton and Terang campuses showcase to our students the busy period that is Autumn, with machines drilling crops in the ground, farmers like clockwork each day towing grain carts and feeding hay in paddocks to livestock, newborn lambs appearing around the place and calving keeping things busy in the Dairy.
Things ARE BUSY.. But that is the exciting nature of Agriculture, always something to do and something new to learn! And its what drives us at RIST to keep up and continue to nurture the passion our students have for the Agricultural industry.
This week we announced our upcoming Information Sessions for August. The Sessions, a mix of in person and online, will cover the Certificate II and III in Agriculture courses and the Certificate II in Shearing (Shearing School) courses. If you would like to register for these info sessions, Please fill out a registration form HERE
Information Sessions for the Diploma and Certificate IV in Agriculture Courses will also be announced very soon.
In the classroom we are a step closer to our renovations being complete at the Hamilton Campus. We hope you like the look of the renovated classroom (see gallery below 👇📸) The design is modern, fresh and a fantastic space embracing technological connectivity to take our classrooms to the world.
– Although world class, we have an inkling students may still prefer their much relished outdoor classrooms; (the paddock, shed or workshop, or RIST gardens also as pictured below) As for so many of our students, that is where they feel at home and where the magic really happens.✨
We also recently announced the next intake of shearing school in June. If you or someone you know would like to register for this course, we encourage you to contact our Program Coordinator of Wool and Shearing Raelene Laidlaw for more information. or GO HERE to register.
Students have been working on an array of interesting classes from Stock Handling, to Animal Nutrition, Budgeting and Machinery Maintenance. We thrive knowing that the skills we develop for our students can be taken with them in their own individual pathways.
We love keeping in touch with past students. News of a recent welding course graduate sharing with her trainer that she loves her new found welding ability and is incorporating her skills to make improvements around her own farming workplace (making a bull bar for the four wheeler! what a feat!) truly gives the RIST team a sense of pride in knowing the skills we develop in our students are just the beginning of their successful pathways in Agriculture.
If you are an ex student, we’d love to hear what you’ve been up to, what you’ve been making and also what’s next!
Until the next round up.