Enterprise Intervention in schools

Project objectives:

• Provide a bespoke programme, negotiated with each participating institution to meet the needs of their disaffected and disadvantaged student body to raise aspiration and employability skills
• Offer students the opportunity to achieve nationally accredited units (leading to a GCSE equivalent vocational qualification) in subjects of specific and general interest to them, in line with their career aspirations
• Provide a comprehensive overview for leadership teams and governors of what enterprise education activities are occurring across the school embedded in schemes of work and through complementary programmes in co-curricular and extra-curricular activity
• Enabling the achievement of the nationally accredited Excellence in Enterprise Education Award from Warwick University CEI
• Provide in-service training to members of staff

Institutions involved in the programme:

Old Warren House Pupil Referral Unit, Lowestoft; Parkside Pupil Referral Unit, Ipswich;
Leiston High School, Leiston;
Orwell High School, Felixstowe.

Co-operative Society for the East of England, Ipswich;
Ferini Art Gallery, Lowestoft;
The Seagull Theatre, Lowestoft;
Open College Network – Eastern Region, Colchester.

Numbers of people involved –
Years 9-10         200
Years 11-12        50
Teaching staff     34