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Nicole Kieser

Oct 21, 2026

Gabrielle Hodson
Gabrielle HodsonCORRESPONDENT
14:47
Can you give us a few examples of how Link to Country works and the sort of days and curriculum and that sort of thing that you've done with local businesses?
14:54
What we want to do is we break the student groups down into five or six with a supervisor and then we create half an hour block activities or an hour depending on the business and I work closely with the business.
15:07
We do the JSAs and the swims and the risk registry which makes it really easy for the schools as well as the site management plan and everything else to support the schools and the teachers.
15:17
Yeah, the businesses come along, they bring resources and they have a great day.
15:23
Everybody is exhausted by the end of it.
15:24
It'll be like really simple skills that we probably take for granted, like putting a halter on a horse safely, changing a tyre, checking oil and water, getting to actually operate an excavator.
15:37
We had poly welding, fishing skills.
Gabrielle Hodson
Gabrielle HodsonCORRESPONDENT
16:02
Why aren't teachers doing this or are they just too busy?

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