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Bronze Success for City School Students
In July 2009, another three of The City School’s students achieved their ASDAN Bronze and are now working towards The Certificate of Personal Effectiveness.
The Certificate of Personal Effectiveness is the equivalent of a full GCSE (grade E/F at level 1 / grade B at level 2)
Well done everyone and keep up the hard work.
THERE WILL BE ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR YEARR 11 STUDENTS TO ACHEIVE THEIR ASDAN BRONZE ON FRIDAY 4TH DECEMBER. ALL WORK MUST BE COMPLETED BY MONDAY 2ND NOVEMBER.
Wider Key Skills
Our key stage 4 students (in years 10 & 11) are working towards all three Wider Key Skills. These are:
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Improving own learning and performance
Each Wider Key Skill counts towards part of a GCSE equivalent (18.8 points at level 1/34.5 points at level 2).
Our Year 10 Wider Key Skill groups (Mrs Cartledge’s ASDAN classes) will also be studying Business and Enterprise Education in conjunction with Business Education South Yorkshire (BESY). They will be given the opportunity to enter the BIG Challenge, which involves setting up a business to make a profit! Watch this space – we might just have the next Young Apprentice for Sir Alan Sugar!
Y11 Oscar Winners
The South East Oscars awards evening took place on Friday 10th July. This is a very prestigious event, so The City School and its students were very proud when awards were presented to two of its year 11 students.
Rebecca Hague picked up the award for Young Volunteer of the Year in the under 16’s category; Lee Williams won this year’s under 16’s Young Achievers Award.
Well done to both students for their ongoing hard work and commitment.
The City School – Inspiring a Brighter Future!
On Tuesday 23rd June, a small group of Year 9 pupils presented a workshop to aspiring young entrepreneurs, teachers, volunteers, business men and women at the Young Enterprise conference in Bradford, ‘Inspire a brighter Future 2009′.
The presentation ‘Been there, done it, now hear all about it’ allowed City pupils to explain how they arranged events and made products to sell in order to raise funds for the expedition to Malealea, Africa which took place over Easter 2009.
Accompanied by Mr Herbert and Miss Buttery, pupils talked confidently about their efforts and achievements through social and business enterprise. Their presentation was well received and the students were a credit to themselves and to The City School.
“Chuckle Brothers” Charity Chop!!!
Assistant Head teacher Ken Dunn of The City School in Sheffield bravely underwent a haircut by the Chuckle Brothers who were at Sheffield Theatre’s recently with Chuckle Trek – The Lost Generation. Robert Taylor of Taylor Taylor Hairdressing will kept an eye on the makeover!
The City Traders & Promotions group of The City School are part of the BIG challenge team in Sheffield. The BiG Challenge is a competition for budding entrepreneurs across Sheffield’s schools. Teams of pupils are given £25 cash to start up and run their own business over a six month period. Their aim is to increase that amount by as much as possible with teams being judged on teamwork, innovation and entrepreneurship. The City Traders & Promotions have chosen to use their cash in a variety of activities and decided to raffle tickets to watch the daring Assistant Head get the chop by the Chukle duo.
All proceeds from haircut helped to raise funds for the trip to Malealea, which will take a mammoth 46 children to Malealea on the journey of a lifetime!
The Malealea Social Enterprise Project run by Assistant Head Ken Dunn has won several awards for The City School now a specialist Business & Enterprise School which has been working closely with local entrepreneur Christina Lima Trindade from the Entrepreneurs Exhange who have been moving mountains to make this trip happen.
Their work with Malealea has received royal interest in the past from HRH Prince Harry and recently saw the HRH Prince Dr Seeiso Bereng Seeiso visit our region, “ I have followed the work of this partnership for several years and have seen firsthand the powerful impact the work is having in the communities both in Lesotho and in the Yorkshire & Humber region. I encourage you to engage with this partnership and further strengthen the valuable work that is being done.”
Assistant Head Ken Dunn explained this project means so much to many people not just here in Sheffield but over 5000 miles away. Our community friends in Malealea have asked us specifically to boost the numbers of children that are receiving secondary school education. The Lesotho Government is working extremely hard to increase the numbers of children receiving education and this focus is improving the life opportunities for many primary school aged youngsters, but resources do not extend to secondary school provision.
We have an opportunity, working through the formally constituted Malealea Development Trust, to sponsor needy children through a scholarship programme.
When asked how the MDT will determine who is needy the response opened eyes wide – “those pupils who have proven that they have an aptitude for further learning, who’s behaviour and attendance have been exemplary, and priority will be given to double orphans in the first instance and then single orphans”. The sum of £113 will put one of these needy children into school for a whole academic year.
Christina commented that on her work with the school she has been so impressed with the enthusiasm and attitude of students of The City School with the Malealea project: “ The children have really grasped a range of key business skills in working on this project from communication, collaboration, decision making, creativity, organisation and community. Malealea has given the students an insight into the world of work but more importantly the aspects of social responsibility on a global scale. It would be really wonderful to see this project develop and opened out for more schools in the city to take part”.
With the fantastic Chuckle Brothers giving Ken a new makeover and four lucky winners from the school watching we all think there will be Chuckles all round!
Ken Dunn getting some Chuckle Treatment!
Left – Right: Ken Dunn, Christina Lima Trindale, Mike Blundell,
If your company can help the Malealea project please contact Ken Dunn on 07974 019545.
If you are an entrepreneur wishing to give up a little time to inspire young people in schools, please contact Jill White of BiG on…0114 2434666.
If you are a budding or established female entrepreneur and would like support locally contact Christina on info@entrepreneursladder.co.uk
PRESS RELEASE
25 March 2009
City School Students make it BiG!
The City School in Sheffield have just held their first ever business starter course for young entrepreneurs from within the school and are thrilled at the results.
Assistant head Ken Dunn explained: “We decided to run this course with the support of the BiG programme funding, after a comprehensive survey of 970 students. We discovered 52 of them were already being entrepreneurial, setting up their own businesses with friends, designing products – including a sprinkling of young Del-Boys doing deals on E-bay and at car boot sales! The course was designed so that after the first day where the students had all gone through a personality profiling and business goal setting workshops with local entrepreneur Ruth Adams of In your Element, we could see who had the capability to make their business happen literally in the next week. We wanted ambitious, business-savvy students who can actually start to make money right here with school support before they leave. Some were as young as 11, so they have plenty of time to develop their skills!”
Schools enterprise coordinator for this half of the city, Mike Garnock-Jones responds: “This really was a unique development in schools, providing aspiring entrepreneurs with enterprise training. We believe this programme at City School can be a model for others to take young people further in the business development agenda. Students have received a powerful mix of skills training and real-world experience from a dozen successful local entrepreneurs who offered practical advice, plenty of challenges and moral support in developing their ideas. The school is committed to developing these real business aspirations. The feedback has been so exceptional from everyone involved, especially the students themselves, we are keen to take the programme into other secondary schools around the city. How many events get every student saying it has been their best experience at school and rating it 10/10?”
Student Jamie Hough who formed an e-bay and local sale team with four of his pals couldn’t agree more: “I didn’t think it would be like it was. I thought it might be a bit rubbish, but it was brilliant! We decided to come together as a team because we all knew each other and shared the same business idea. Now we are going to expand the business and pitch to get some funds from the school council to expand and advertise. Then we aim to get our own website and really start making some money out of it. The business experts gave me a different perspective, it was educational, making me think more about my E-bay business buying and selling. I really enjoyed it and will love to keep the business going.”
The course was created and organised by two local entrepreneurs who often work together, Christina Lima Trindade who founded the Entrepreneurs Ladder and Working Woman to support women and business start ups, and Faye Smith who runs her own training and marketing consultancy, Keep your Fork.
Christina concludes: “Originally I came into City to scope out the potential for business and enterprise throughout the school. Immediately I could see there are already eight businesses which with help and support could really take off. Now with the skills, contact and knowledge this programme has given them, these young people will be unstoppable! We have been overwhelmed by the potential of the students and support of the teachers.
Faye adds: “Our entrepreneurs who played the roles of angels and dragons all told us they were hugely impressed. Over the three days we saw hesitant youngsters learn so much, take on board the dragons’ ideas and show so much passion, enthusiasm and commitment, we were blown away. They were all involved all the time, which is so rare, and at the end we saw students as young as twelve pitch to virtual strangers confidently without scripts. Like all the staff here, now we have seen the opportunities first hand, we would all love to see this programme replicated throughout the region”
