Role Model Event at Avanti House School

About the Business Leaders

These business leaders have been chosen because their companies are growing quickly.

About the teacher and students

The event was created by Andrew H for 200 students at Avanti House School aged Age 13 - 13.

Event description

Choosing the education/career path right for you - how to be employable

The business speakers will help set the scene in the first hour of the day of the importance of business and inspire the young people to make the most of their day of activities helping them understand what makes one more employable and entrepreneurial. The Young Enterprise programme is a full day programme but the business speakers need only attend the one hour panel discussion.

Dynamic series of enterprise challenges run by the UK's leading enterprise & financial education charity. We are keen on starting the day off with an inspirational key note speech from business leaders. Students are then put through a dynamic series of enterprise challenges. The business speakers help set the scene for the importance of business and inspire the young people to make the most of their day of enterprising activities.

Programme Objectives (what the programme will cover)
- Provide an awareness of key employability skills and attitudes needed regardless of future career choices (employment, self employment, further education). Namely teamwork, communication, organisation, confidence, resilience, financial literacy, problem solving and entrepreneurial ability
- Create an immersive experience that enables young people to develop employability skills through business relevant scenarios, gained through learning by doing
- Introduce business concepts, such as marketing, resource application, product development etc.
- Provide inspiration and education by involving volunteers from the world of work

Programme Outcomes (what students will be able to do at the end of the programme)
- Evidence existing experience of employability skills, and be clear on what they can build on and what they need to develop
- Recognise personality types, strengths and weaknesses and what this means to their development
- Understand some of the decisions that businesses make and explain how they used employability skills to work on business concepts
- Prioritise workloads and manage their time – some tasks are deliberately brief in information in order to encourage the development of enterprise and employability skills