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Why choose to go to Wongutha CAPS?

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Christian Aboriginal School; with Christian staff, mentors and a Chaplain.

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Are there Aboriginal staff?

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Yes there are teachers, support staff, mentors and hostel supervisors.

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What Courses can I do at Wongutha CAPS?

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We aim to help our students to improve their reading and writing so they can study other subjects better.

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Career Guidance

When you arrive a teacher will help you to work out a Pathway Plan so that you can:
• Choose the right VET subjects to help you towards those goals
• Put together an Employment Portfolio while you are at Wongutha

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Work Readiness

Wongutha has an intensive work preparation course which includes Work Education, Agriculture, Fire Safety, First Aid and Occupational Health and Safety.

Students are ready to go into Workplace Learning after they have finished this Work Readiness training. Workplace Learning students go to work every Tuesday in the town of Esperance or on farms in the Esperance region. Each student has a Workplace Coordinator who finds work places for them. The Workplace Coordinator also visits them at their workplaces to help and encourage.

Each student also has a Mentor who encourages and supports him or her in the school and work environment.

Aboriginal School Based Traineeships
Students who complete a VET Certificate are able to do a Traineeship at the school. These students are paid for the hours they work. They also keep doing their school subjects.

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Contact Info

Gibson East Rd
PO Box 101
Gibson WA 6448
Phone: 08 9075 4011
Fax: 08 9075 4019

Wongutha CAPS

Wongutha Christian Aboriginal Parent-directed School (CAPS) is a non-government, Indigenous year 11 & 12 vocational school on a farm 27 kilometres from Esperance. The school has both boys’ and girls’ hostels and accepts students from all over Western Australia.