THE SCHOOL: Heartlands Academy
LOCATION: Birmingham
BACKGROUND: Enabling Enterprise have worked in partnership with Heartlands Academy, an OFSTED outstanding secondary school in Birmingham, for the past 3 years. We have particularly supported enterprise education opportunities for students in KS3 and KS4 with support from PwC. Education Associate, Alison Gale visited the Year 10 after school [...]
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Jennifer Brown, class teacher at Kender Primary School in Lewisham, has been teaching Enabling Enterprise projects with her Year 4 class since September. She has experienced first-hand the value of putting an emphasis on pupil voice in the classroom.
Education Associate Sarah Ritchie has been supporting Kender’s programme this year. She catches up with [...]
On 10th February, Year 4 pupils from one of our Enabling Enterprise partner schools Chase Side Primary in Enfield were lucky enough to spend the whole day at the top law firm Norton Rose Fulbright at their impressive offices overlooking the Thames and Tower Bridge. They took part in the ‘Tricky Trial’ challenge which sees [...]
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West Drayton Primary School in Hillingdon are running an Enabling Enterprise taster programme this year. Debby Mitchell has been leading the programme in school and has run the “Number Crunching” project, where students create a new chocolate brand, with a group of Year 5 girls. Education Associate Alanna Hume catches up with two of [...]
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Sarah Marlow is Regional Manager for our programmes in Birmingham and the West Midlands. Here she reflects on how a long-term relationship with one particular school has produced a brilliant impact for its teachers and students.
I love working with Fairway Primary Academy. And it was great to have that reciprocated as our EE Champion [...]
Teachers from Norbury Manor Business and Enterprise College for Girls took a trip to the Usueni School in Kenya to share enterprise expertise and support them to set up jewellery and textile businesses. Here they share their experience…
After 2 years in the planning and 24 hours of travel door to door, we finally made it [...]
Project based learning is motivating for students; working together in teams to produce something for a real audience engages students through its reality and relevance. As an English teacher, one of my early ‘eureka’ moments was designing a project in which teams of students set up a fundraising event in school. Students analysed [...]
In this term’s edition, we focus on how you can measure enterprise skills and differentiate in project based learning so students of all abilities can benefit. Some of the questions we explore in this edition:
How can you measure enterprise skills?
What does best practice in enterprise look like?
Can you differentiate enterprise skills teaching?
How can you make [...]
Chris Cuckson is a Senior Education Associate for Enabling Enterprise and has five years teaching experience. Here, he explores the idea that enterprise education can be a universal approach and reflects on his recent visit to an school in Naples in Italy to support students and teachers in an enterprise challenge.
If we think of how [...]
As the end of the year fast approaches, we thought we’d share a few of our favourite moments from the many business trips that we’ve run this year. From getting to watch planes take off from their classroom for the day in Birmingham, to taking Citizenship lessons to new heights with a trip to the [...]
