Read All About It – 2007
Park View Business and Enterprise School – Birmingham
The Task: Working with Year 8 students to raise their aspirations, encouraging young girls to think about enterprise through a practical activity. Working in small groups, the young girls were encouraged to develop an idea around producing a school newsletter, facilitated by roles models.
1. What did the young people had to say about the experience.
* increased our confidence
* working in co-operation
* helping each other
* independence
* working as part of a team
* taking part / having a go
* getting to know other people
* knowing what you want to do and achieving it
* organisational skills
2. Did the activity help you to develop a positive attitude towards enterprise.
3. Feedback from the school
Overall we were very pleased and as you can see from the feedback from the young people so were they.
