Year 13 students, Mr Hamilton & Mrs Reeman explained enterprise to each year group.
Year 12 Key Skills Conference
On 11 th & 12 th of November Year 12 students attended our annual Key Skills conference at The Assembly Rooms in Newcastle.
The facilitators for the day included staff from the Royal Air Force, Merck, Sharp and Dohme and the Northumberland Education Business Partnership.
With the Royal Air Force students had to work in teams to solve problems encountered in a simulated air crash incident.
With Merck, Sharp & Dohme students had to work under pressure in a business simulation to minimise financial loss in a manufacturing process.
With the Education Business Partnership the students had to design and make a shoe with other fashion accessories.
Each team had to present their work to their peers and the winning teams had to present to the whole group at the end of the day.
A lot of enterprise skills were needed all day!
On Monday 14 th November Gifted & talented Business students took part in the “Make Your Mark Challenge” competition.
This national competition involved students in a business problem connected to “putting their local area on the map”. Our two teams came up with a fun park and a building based on the Abbeywell mineral water bottle.
The winning team got through to the regional final at the Royal Quays.
On Tuesday 15 th & Thursday 17 th November the whole of Year 9 spent the whole day on a range of enterprising activities.
The day was led by staff from Northumberland Education Business Partnership.
Students were asked to be managers of a pop group and design and build a housing estate!
Also on Tuesday our KS4 entrepreneurs were put through their paces by their business link mentor as they strive to set up and run their own company.
Supported by Young Enterprise this is surely going to be a challenge!
The company will run until July 2006.
On Wednesday 16 th November KEVI hosted its first ever Question time. A panel of guests answered political questions from students at KEVI and Heaton Manor School in Newcastle.
Questions centred on abortion, the leadership contest for the conservative party, democracy and making politics relevant to young people.
Chair for the night was Andy Avery.
The event will hopefully run again next year.
On Thursday 17 th November students who are interested in charity work attended a class that was designed to develop their fundraising skill and talent.
The class marked the start of a process where the students will receive a qualification in this area.
Also on Thursday 17 th November enterprising sixth form Biology students organised an after school class for younger students.
The class involved the sixth formers showing how DNA can be extracted from cheek cells. Students extracted their DNA and placed it in a pendant they could wear around their neck. Of course a small charge was involved!
On Friday 18 th November 50 Year 11 students visited the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle for a careers convention.
On Saturday 19 th November the St James Centre was once again full of KEVI students and staff for the Enterprise Christmas Fair. Lots of stalls were set up with products the students had made in their Design Technology lessons.
As carols played in the background lots of people bartered for the goods and over £400 was raised for the BBC Children in Need Appeal.
Throughout the whole of enterprise week a team of Year 10 students competed against a team of Year 11 students in a competition based on the BBC2 TV programme called The Apprentice.
Students invested money in a product (a glow in the dark wrist band) and designed a strategy to make the most profit from sales in a week.
Each team earned over £200 from their weeks selling but the eventual winners were the team from Year 10!
