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Year 8 Into Industry
Tuesday, 2nd November 2010
270 students have just completed an “Into Industry Week” where the focus of the project was to give the Year 8 students an idea of which employers are in the local area along with the different types of jobs available within these employers.
“It has been a fantastic opportunity for the young people of our school to talk to employers and visit their premises on a very informal basis; each employer has given a fantastic and informative talk to the students and then given them time to ask questions. The students have also been given an amazing range of free gifts and information leaflets from these employers.” Said Business & Enterprise co-ordinator Ms Julie Coyte.
Our students were given the opportunity to visit or hear from the following companies and institutes:-
Glaxo – Some of our Sixth Form students joined the group on this visit. Students heard about the role of Glaxo in the world, the wide variety of jobs available at the company and were shown the technology used and some of the products they produced.
Fairland Sailing Club – owned by
IBM – Meeting with John Austin (who has worked on some of the big projects undertaken by IBM including one for videophone) the students heard all about the jobs available in the Stevenage branch but also how a big company like IBM has HR, finance, marketing etc all done from other countries via new technology.
T-mobile – the students met with members of staff from marketing, networking and finance who all explained their roles and the technology used within that role and by T-mobile as a company
DHL – students visited the working warehouse and wore visibility jackets so learnt all about Health & Safety. They also met with some of the directors and heard about the different roles and technology within the company.
Police and Public services – PC Paul Lawlor came into school to talk about the police force who the vast amount of different roles available including non-police personnel such as Police Community Support Officers and the important role they play.
Other companies visited include: Waitrose, Holiday Inn, Higgins Group, MBDA and the Gordon Craig Theatre.