Pathways & Careers
Empowering Hope and Shaping Futures at KingsWay School
What is Your Career?
Your career is your whole lifelong journey — all the things you learn, try, experience, and grow through.
It includes your part‑time jobs, hobbies, strengths, culture, friendships, volunteering, study choices, family influences, and the goals you’re building for your future.
Your career isn’t just one job — it’s the story of who you are becoming and how you want to make an impact in your world.
(Career Development Institute (CDI, 2022): career as a sequence of varied life/work roles and a way to make sense of opportunities and wider life roles. [thecdi.net])
Career Education
Career education is the planned, progressive learning that helps young people develop the skills, knowledge, and attitudes they need to understand themselves, explore opportunities, make decisions, and manage their lifelong career journey.
https://education.qld.gov.au/careers/apprentices-and-trainees/school-to-work/career-education
Our qualified Careers Counsellor, Cherie Perrow (Master of Career Development), partners with students to equip and empower them in making informed, meaningful decisions about their next steps beyond school.
Cadi Clusters Approach:
- Students take part in a CADI (Cluster Approach to Development of Identity) workshop, where they explore their strengths, interests, and developing identity. Instead of viewing careers as single jobs — which change quickly — students learn a modern career‑cluster mindset, understanding work as groups of strengths, skills, and ways of contributing that align with who they are becoming. CADI helps students recognise where they naturally connect with 1-2 strong career clusters, as they consider future subjects and pathways.
- Parent Resource:
The quick 5‑minute quiz matches your strengths and interests to one of six career clusters so you can explore pathways that fit you best. - Cadi Cluster Quiz
- CADI – A cluster approach to the development of identity
Career Guidance:
- This is provided to Year 12 students who are leaving school and Year 13’s.
Gallup Strengths:
- Students dive into discovering their Top 5 Gallup Strengths through LifeLab and step into a dynamic series of workshops led by Mrs Perrow and Mrs Clark. With their personalised Strengths Workbook in hand, they uncover, explore, and grow their God‑given talents—building confidence, purpose, and a clearer sense of the unique person they were created to become.
- Gallup / Clifton Strengths
North Shore Careers Expo:
- All year 12 students attend the North Shore Careers Expo, gaining valuable insights into a wide range of career and tertiary options.
Futures Thinking Workshop:
- In Year 12, students will take part in an inspiring workshop with Chris Clay, who will deepen their career mindset and spark creative, future‑focused thinking. He guides students to explore emerging possibilities, evolving technologies, and the skills needed to thrive in a rapidly changing world of work. This session encourages students to look beyond traditional pathways and build the adaptability and curiosity essential for navigating the future with confidence.
Career Guidance:
- One-on-one career appointments are available for Year 12 students leaving school education only. The session provides personalised support to help students navigate their career direction and next steps.
Career Guidance:
- One-on-one career appointments are available to Year 13 students. The session provides personalised support to help students clarify their career direction and next steps.
North Shore Careers Expo:
- All Year 13 students attend the North Shore Careers Expo, gaining valuable insights into a wide range of career and tertiary options.
Gateway is a Tertiary Education Commission (TEC)‑funded programme that provides Year 12–13 students with structured, real‑world workplace learning to help them build the skills, confidence, and experience needed for future work. Gateway is a subject option. Please see the Senior School Options Handbook for further details.
Gateway Funding
We need our community:
KingsWay School welcomes the local community, organisations and businesses to be part of our Gateway Programme. If you can offer a place for one of our learners, please get in touch with our Gateway Coordinator: Hannah.jennings@kingsway.school.nz
Career Information
All KingsWay Career Resources are available on our CareerWise website.
Tahatū Career Navigator:
Tahatū Career Navigator is the Tertiary Education Commission’s new, official careers website for New Zealanders. It replaces careers.govt.nz and brings together up‑to‑date information on nearly 100 NCEA subjects, 4,000+ qualifications and courses, and 800+ career ideas in one place to help rangatahi (and their whānau) plan pathways from school to further study, training, and work.
You can access it here: tahatu.govt.nz.
North Shore Careers Expo:
All year 12 and 13 students attend the North Shore Career Expo and is your major event to explore ideas for your future career. Discover a wide range of education, training and career options all in one place and take advantage of the opportunity to talk face-to-face with the experts. Our 2026 visit will take place on the 21st of May during school.
Careers Information Hub in the Library:
- Your future is calling… find career ideas, tools, and inspiration in the library’s Careers Section!
Future Ready Lunchtime Presentations:
- To support your child’s next steps, we host dynamic tertiary lunchtime presentations that open doors to future opportunities and empower them to plan with confidence.
Pathways Faculty 2026 Calendar Dates and Events
We are excited to introduce you to the Pathways Faculty’s career platform, CareerWise. This comprehensive resource offers the latest information on career events, upcoming university and tertiary provider open days, experiential events, career resources, and helpful career links.
kingsway.careerwise.school
MoneyHub, a consumer finance website, has published a guide to hundreds of scholarships for any student planning to start university. The comprehensive list includes scholarships offered by every university as well as those specifically available to local students. A list of privately-funded, Maori, Pacific and International university scholarships completes the list. For more details and to find suitable scholarships, visit the MoneyHub Scholarship page here.
Read more here about Scholarships from the various universities here: https://kingsway.careerwise.school
How to apply for scholarships – Click here
Contact Us
Our Team
Mrs Cherie Perrow – Head of Pathways & Careers
Mrs Karen van Wyk – Pathways Administrator
Mrs Nikki Clark – Gateway Teacher
Mrs Hannah Jennings – Gateway Work-placement Coordinator
Location: Senior School Library
Phone: 09 200 1931
Open: Monday to Friday from 8:45am – 3:15pm
Email: karen.vanwyk@kingsway.school.nz cherie.perrow@kingsway.school.nz
