The City School

Business and Enterprise in ASDAN

ASDAN (the Award Scheme Development and Accreditation Network) offers awards and qualifications in a range of skills and settings. They recognize that young people are multi-talented and their vision is to celebrate that diversity.

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From September The City School’s ASDAN students will be meeting with business entrepreneurs in order to help them problem solve business issues which are arising in their companies.

Students will work alongside one another to solve problems to improve their wider key skill application to real life business problems.

The entrepreneurs will select the best ideas to help them solve their business problems in a dragons den ‘pitch’ styled way.

 

The BIG Challenge

Students in the ASDAN groups next year will also be working on setting up a business for a term. During the term they will experience:

- What skills and qualities are required to be an entrepreneur

- Creativity ideas behind setting up a business

- Branding ideas

- Marketing

- Financial sides of business

- Pitching ideas to sell their product

The sessions will begin in November and will be delivered by Sheffield entrepreneurs based within our community. They will then choose the business that they would most like to invest in.

ALL students will be given the opportunity to make their ideas a real business by joining the BIG challenge competition where they will compete against other schools in Sheffield for the prizes associated with the BIG challenge. Each group will be given the chance to enter and start up their business with £25-00.

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Mentoring with Businesses

As part of the National Challenge bid for the Year of Leaving 2010, The City School has offered an opportunity to become one of the pilot schools in Sheffield to have local business mentors assigned to a select number of students who require additional mentoring during Year 11.

The students will be selected from the National Challenge cohort. A mentor will be offered to them with a view to working alongside the students for their last 12 months at City School.

The idea behind such a scheme is born from our drive as a school alongside the National Challenge for all schools to improve the 5 A*- C grades (including English and Maths) to over 30% by 2011.

The fully trained Mentors will have an established working relationship with our students; working alongside them in other school events to increase awareness and motivation to work towards the achievement of targets.

The data collected will help to establish if mentoring is impacting the students on an individual level. It will also be used to monitor the intervention programme along with other interventions offered by the school to support students in the National Challenge cohort. Through Business and Education South Yorkshire, we have an opportunity as a school to link up with local professionals who can become mentors and role models, to encourage a positive engagement with learning in order to broaden the choices and opportunities available to students after Year 11.