Secondary Schools A complete approach to transforming students enterprise skills
Introduction Hello! As a team of teachers, we set up Enabling Enterprise to help our students become rounded and successful. We wanted to do more to build our students enterprise skills, their understanding of the world of work and high aspirations. We focus particularly on eight core skills that are the essentials: Teamwork & Leadership; Listening & Presenting; Aiming High & Staying Positive; Problem- Solving & Creativity. We start by understanding where your students strengths and weaknesses currently lie, and then train teachers on how to teach these skills effectively. Building on this foundation, Enabling Enterprise builds high levels of competence in these skills through innovative programmes of lesson-time projects, challenge days and trips to visit top businesses. With Enabling Enterprise, your students could be carrying out a debate in English with a top law firm, designing a new brand of chocolate in mathematics, or seeing ICT in action by working with IBM. We ve seen the impact of our work on over 100,000 students in the last five years, and hope this booklet inspires you to get involved too. Tom and the Enabling Enterprise Team info@enablingenterprise.org www.enablingenterprise.org Page 2
Why we Exist We work to ensure that all students develop the eight key enterprise skills and attributes they need for future success: Page 3
How we Work We work in partnership with over eighty top businesses and other employers: Professional & Business Services Construction& Manufacture Creative Industries Retail & Logistics And many others Page 4
Our Programmes There are two parts to our secondary school programmes: Foundations Skills assessment A complete skills assessment using our rigorous framework to support students development. This enables a more finely tuned approach to focus on where the students need the most support. Staff training We run CPD sessions in school for all teachers on developing the 8 core enterprise skills. We help teachers to run or design successful enterprise and work-related projects. Putting it into Action Lesson time projects A wide selection of lesson-time projects, designed in 10 session blocks. Each project builds on the students enterprise skills, whilst also linking to learning across other parts of the curriculum. Challenge days Exciting and engaging days run in school, coordinated by EE staff. Challenge days cover a range of optional topics, including introductions to politics, business or the world of work. Business trips Designed to draw out the links between the lesson-time projects and the real world, hosted by a business partner. Includes meeting employees and an engaging game or simulation. Page 5
Year 7 Year 13 Foundations Part 1: Skills Assessment We use a skills levelling framework so we can quantifiably see progress over time, rather than just relying on students confidence. Year 13: Best Year 13: Better Year 13: Target Year 13: Below Target. Year 7: Best Year 7: Better Year 7: Target Year 7: Below Target Example: Working in a Team 7 13 By the end of Year 7 Below target: I help my team make decisions and I am happy to support others ideas. Target: I recognise the value of others ideas and try to add extra ideas too. Better: I am helpful to others in their tasks and include all team mates in discussions. Best: I can spot when I might be getting into an argument and take steps to avoid it. By the end of Year 13 Below target: I reflect on the team s progress and make suggestions for improvements. Target: I can reflect and evaluate on the team s approaches to tasks and carefully influence to get better results. Better: I m aware of the team leader s strengths and weaknesses and actively support them when they need me. Best: I understand the skills of other team members and adapt my approach to them.
The Impact In 2014, we tracked a sample of 3,078 students across the year. Over the year, our students showed that they could hit or exceed their target skills level with an EE programme 85% were on track by the end of the year, and 69% were working above target: Below 37% Above 33% On 16% Below 15% On 30% Start of the year against year group target Above 69% End of the year against year group target This is reinforced by their teachers view of their progress: 88%of teachers saw progress in all eight skill areas 97% of teachers saw progress in at least six skill areas And EE students significantly out-performed skills development of students not following EE programmes across all skill areas: 1.80 1.60 1.40 1.20 1.00 0.80 0.60 0.40 0.20 0.00 Extra progress by EE students Progress by control group 117% extra progress for EE students vs. control group Page 8
Foundation Part 2: Staff Training Our team of excellent qualified teachers help your teachers to build their confidence in teaching enterprise and supporting their students progress. Core support includes: Initial teacher training: Introducing effective enterprise education and the EE Programmes. Embedding the skills: Exploring your students skills, with practical application for how to develop them in the classroom Learning walks: Supporting teachers delivering programmes in the classroom, providing specific feedback and ideas. Building on the skills: Reflecting with teachers to analyse the progress their students have made and future development. Wider support includes: Modelling and feedback: Modelling programme delivery, to get the most out of EE resources, with an opportunity to reflect. Curriculum planning: Supporting teachers to plan their projects effectively to specific school curriculums. Skill focus: Maximising progression in a particular Challenge Skill (e.g. staying positive or leading). Page 9
Putting it into Action Part 1: Lesson-Time Projects EE lesson-time projects bring your students learning to life. Each project is supported by a leading business. They give your students a chance to develop and apply new enterprise skills, while widening their understanding of the world of work: Three examples from our 60+ projects: Year 8 Maths: Number Games Toy Industry (6 sessions) Students design and create a brand new board game. They will work out probability and scoring, as well as exploring shape space and measure in the actual game design. Year 10 English: Legal Eagles Law (6 sessions) Students take on the role of lawyers in a trial, planning and performing persuasive speeches. By the end of the project, the students understand the legal world, and the power of words. Year 12 Business & Careers: Dreams to Reality Enterprise (12 sessions) Students plan, develop and implement their own businesses. The project provides excellent opportunities for students to develop and demonstrate core transferable skills, which can give a boost to their CVs and UCAS applications. Page 11
Putting it into Action Part 2: Challenge Days Our Challenge Days provide an exciting and engaging way for students across a class, a year group or even the whole school to work together and use their enterprise skills. The challenges include everything you need to make the day a success, with videos to launch each section, as well as support from EE on the day. They are also linked to curriculum outcomes. Some of the Challenge Day options: Justice in Action: Students turn around a failing legal firm by bidding for cases and exploring how the law and morals interact. Greetings Cards: Students work in teams to set up and run a greetings card production line, including making and selling. Social Entrepreneur: Students identify a need or challenge in their school or community, and develop ideas to solve them. A Day in Politics: Students learn about democracy and politics through games, including setting up their own political parties. Chocolate Challenge: Students set up a new chocolate brand using market research, financial modelling and 3D design. Moon Base: Students explore the world of work by having to create a new community on the moon from scratch. Business in a Day: Students create a souvenirs company, with a focus on finance and business basics. World Trade Challenge: Students explore the world economy through a sophisticated trading game. Page 13
Putting it into Action Part 3: Trips to Businesses Our business trips help students to make the link between the enterprise skills they are developing in the classroom and how they are used in the working world. The trips include the chance to work with volunteers from the business, as well as taking part in a game to give a flavour of the industry. We run trips to over 80 businesses and employers. Some examples are: Société Générale International Business Students visiting the offices of French investment bank Société Générale are quickly immersed in the world of international business. Meeting a variety of volunteers from across the world, a trading game explores how the global economy functions. Birmingham Airport Transport Students learn about Birmingham Airport and the huge range of different roles that people have at an airport. They apply their learning by designing new branding for one of the airlines they meet. London Business School Careers in Business Students visiting London Business School are spoilt with the range of business professionals that they are able to talk to. The day gives students the chance to explore different industries, from advertising to engineering, before working with MBA students to create career maps. Page 15
Get Involved We are now able to work with schools across England from our bases in Birmingham, London and Manchester. We have a full range of partnership packages available according to the priorities of your school. To set up a phone call or meeting, please don t hesitate to email us at info@enablingenterprise.org Alternatively, find the right contact for your region at: www.enablingenterprise.org/contact Page 17
Enabling Enterprise have worked in partnership with Heartlands Academy for the past 3 years. It is evident that our students have grown in confidence and are developing the skills and knowledge to seek information about their future choices. Students are aware of routes into employment and the skills and character attributes required to be employable. As well as student achievement, our continuing engagement with Enabling Enterprise not only supports and benefits our students, but our academy as well, contributing to our Outstanding Ofsted rating. - Community Director, Heartlands Academy
Enabling Enterprise is a not-for-profit partnership of schools and businesses transforming students enterprise skills, experiences of the working world and aspirations. Contact us: info@enablingenterprise.org London Birmingham Manchester www.enablingenterprise.org Enabling Enterprise 2015 all rights reserved