Classroom to Boardroom for Croydon Secondary Schools

EiA delivered 7 week-long Business Challenges in 4 Croydon secondary schools in February and March 2008 – Haling Manor, Westwood Language College for girls, St Joseph’s, Virgo Fidelis and Edenham High.

The aim was to give the Croydon students a real taste of the business world and to help the Year 8 and 10 students make better choices in one year’s time as they would then have the option to select one of the new 14-19 Diplomas, specialising in either Engineering or Creative and Media.

There was also a year 10 group who would be making a similar choice for 16+ at level 2 or 3. Five groups worked on challenges related to the emerging Creative & Media Diploma, and a range of businesses were engaged to set the challenges in fashion, photography and music.

The other two related to the Engineering Diploma: one researched industry roles, and the other worked on a task set by EDF Energy.