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Happy Puzzle Day for Y8
Barnwell NatWest Bank
Claire Young
Costa Project
Business & Enterprise update 2010
Happy Puzzle day for all year 8’s
An outside company came in to work with all the year 8 students on a series of puzzles. They were encouraged to work in teams using their maths and Enterprise skills to solve the puzzles, the faster they solved the problem the more puzzles they got to try. A great time was had by all and they didn’t even notice how hard they were working.
NatWest Bank
Continues to open every Friday in the dinning hall between 8.00 – 8.30 and we have had an article in the local paper this week on the importance of starting to save at an early age.
Hertfordshire Enterprise Learning Partnership (HELP)
HELP for which Barnwell are the coordinating school held a very successful Enterprise Challenge for schools from across Hertfordshire with the Young Chamber. This was attended by 150 students age 11-19 they had to work in teams of 7 to come up with a new soft drink. Barnwell entered two teams comprising of students from year 7-10. The day was supported by local businesses such as Costa Coffee, Britvic, Coca Cola and The Wine Society. The winning team came from The Priory School in Hitchin.
HELP have now submitted their action plan for the coming year taking them to March 2010 it is full of staff and student events and CPD opportunities. For more information speak to Julie Coyte.
Claire Young finalist from ‘The Apprentice’
On Monday 10th May, Claire Young finalist from’ The Apprentice’ was in school for the day. She spoke to the whole of year 9 and 10 and also spent some time with year 9 core learning in the classroom and year 10 yellow route students who are currently running their own version of the popular TV show. Claire is due to return to school in July to present the winners from the year 10 group with their prizes.
As a result of the day one of our year 10 students Matt Armstrong e-mailed Claire about the trip to Borneo and she has agreed to sponsor him £100 towards the cost of his trip.
Claire’s message was very clear if you don’t get off your bottom to make things happen no one else will do it for you.
Costa Coffee finalists get their prize
On Tuesday 11th May Mrs Hann and Ms Coyte took the winning team from the Maths Costa Coffee competition to the Costa restaurant on the Roaring Meg for Lunch the boys had a great time and ate their way through a massive sandwich each, a large milkshake or hot chocolate and a very big and gooey cake. The next step is for them to convince the school kitchen to sell their product during lunch time.
Art Exhibition
Ms Coyte and Miss Gentry have been talking to Stevenage Borough Council about holding a display of the A level art and photography work from Barnwell School students. We have now secured the use of the council building that used to ‘The Edward the Confessor’ pub and the display and celebration of their work will take place in July after the moderation has been completed.
Barnwell’s got talent
Once again this year our HOH on West organised our very own talent competition. It was supported by lots of students and parents and was a fantastic evening of talent and emotion. The money that this raised is being sent to support the Haiti appeal.
Customer Service placements for Business studies
Over the past 2 weeks we have placed 18 year 12 business students in a selection of local retail outlets to observe customer service in action. This is to support their learning in the classroom. The feedback from the employers has been very positive. Some of the companies used include Tesco, Sainsbury, Home base, Marks and Spencer, Stevenage Borough Council, Waitrose and NatWest Bank
Enterprise Club
The Enterprise Club are going world cup crazy they have organised a tombola full of England goodies and are selling the tickets a break and lunch time during the duration of the world cup.
They did have some bad news when the kitchen announced that they could no longer use the snack shack as their business box due to them loosing the school contract they needed the space for storage. However after asking around I have managed to get a new space at the end of ‘A’ block that is currently used to store filling cabinets and the students are going to transform this into the new and better business box. We hope to move the bank, school shop and enterprise club ready for September.
Young Carers
The young carers at Barnwell School continue to come along to the lunch time clubs. We are looking at ways to raise money to take them all out on a summer school trip. If anyone has any ideas please contact either Julie Coyte or Tracy Bird.
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