Role Model Event at Thorns Collegiate Academy
Thu 23 Jan 2020 | 8:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Organizer
Thorns Collegiate Academy
Stockwell Avenue
Brierley Hill
DY5 2NU
Tel: 01384816225
Mollie Allman
Health and Safety / Human Resources Officer at Onboard Corrugated Ltd
Onboard Corrugated Limited
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 Palvinder Dulai for 50 students at Thorns Collegiate Academy aged Age 11 - 12.
Event description
Inspire our students
(A Business in the Community organised event)
IIn this session, business leaders will share insights, lessons and tips to motivate and inspire your students to make informed decisions about their future.
The Employer Supported Workshops are in the form of teacher-led sessions, with material tailored to specific year groups within secondary schools.
Speakers will ‘tell a story’ about their career journey:
• Subjects they studied and how these are relevant now
• What inspired them to choose their career path
• Their failures, as well as successes
• What their company does and why this is important
• What they enjoy most about their career
• Skills currently relevant in the jobs they are doing now.
If you are interested in supporting this event and/or would like more information, please contact either:-
Palvinder Dulai email: palvinder.dulai@bitc.org.uk M:07803 746618 or
Nuria De La Fuente email: Nuria.DeLaFuente@bitc.org.uk M:07725 638028
Business in the Community (BITC) - are the Prince’s Responsible Business Network, existing to create healthy communities with successful business at their heart. We were born out of a response to the Toxteth and Brixton Riots in 1981. Over the years we have helped to establish the wider agenda for corporate responsibility. Today, BITC has over half of the FTSE 100 as active members, as part of a membership of 800 businesses, and reaches hundreds more through its campaigns, with over 350 business leaders taking active business roles.
Our work in Education is centred on enabling business to play its part so that every young person, particularly those facing social disadvantage, achieves in education, leading to a successful working life, thriving in business.