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Monday, 6th October 2008

Year 10 get a taste of Industry

On the penultimate week of the Summer term, our year 10 students were taken off timetable for four days to enable them to participate in Enterprise and Industry Week 2008.

During the course of the week students signed up for a number of activities including the R.A.F., The Army, The Environment Challenge, Gardening and Allotment, The Police, Town Planning and Journalism.

Students spent the first day of the week on a 'Carousel' during which they were able to write their individual C.Vs and personal statements, take part in an interview skills seminar and learned how to present themselves in preparation for college and job interviews.

The rest of the week gave members of this particular year group the opportunity of gaining expertise in a wide variety of different areas and possible job choices with the express aim of improving skills in such diverse areas as working as part of a team, communication and motivation skills, being self reliant and improving their physical fitness.

One particular group spent the week interviewing student participants and staff volunteers in order to produce a 'newspaper' detailing the weeks activities. A copy of the finished product is attached!!

A reporter and photorgrapher from the Wakefield Express came into school to interview the 'conscripts' for the Army and a report of the weeks activities appeared in the newspaper.

Another small group of students spent the week landscaping and creating an allottment area which involved considerable hard work and lots of mud!!! The participants certainly seemed to enjoy 'getting their hands dirty' and the finished result stands in testomony to the hard work that they put in!!!