Enabling Enterprise at New Charter Academy
The Enabling Enterprise team were delighted to hear that teachers at the New Charter Academy in Ashton under Lyne had decided to run the Enabling Enterprise Business course with 256 of their students in Year 9 this academic year.

The school, which specialises in Business and Enterprise, is currently delivering the [...]

The International Enterprise Club
Throughout the school year of 2009-2010, fourteen students from Feltham took the opportunity to work together as part of the Feltham Community College International Enterprise Club.

The club was held every Tuesday after school, and teachers followed our Enabling French programme, which is taken from our range of courses prepared specifically for secondary [...]

The Donut Kings at Cardinal Pole School
The Donut Kings was a small business set up by Martin, Dylan, Joan, Igor and Francel from Cardinal Pole School in Hackney. The students were studying the Enabling Enterprise Business course during their weekly afternoon Enrichment sessions.

After conducting some initial market research to identify which products they thought would [...]

The Isle of Sheppey Academy
Teachers at the recently formed Isle of Sheppey Academy have been working to boost the engagement and achievement of students by injecting enterprise into the curriculum with Enabling Enterprise courses in Business and ICT.

Responding to the enthusiasm of the students, teachers at the Isle of Sheppey Academy took the concept [...]

Cardinal Pole Catholic School
Cardinal Pole was one of the first schools to use our programmes and they’ve used our Enabling Business course in a whole range of different ways – after-school, during the timetable as part of the BTEC Business courses, and even as an enrichment activity for the Sixth Form.

During that time they’ve been [...]

Maths Course at London Academy
London Academy were one of the schools to take part in our Maths course this year, using the programme as an after-school enrichment for some of their Year 8 students.

Student’s View: Fifi Henry
“I’ve always enjoyed it when I did bits of enterprise before so doing more enterprise in Maths was brilliant. [...]

What their teacher said…
As a Modern Languages teacher with no Business teaching experience I was somewhat daunted by the prospect of teaching an entire course about Enterprise! Nevertheless, I attended the teacher training course and, equipped with bags of resources and much needed support from the Enabling Enterprise network, began to launch the project in [...]

Salil’s Children
Salil’s Children is a award-winning small business set up by five students from Cardinal Pole School: Igor Roslonski, Angelika Stolarz, Laura Romero, Luis Salinas-Herrera and Sebastian Sroga.

The students first had to pitch their business ideas to a panel made up of the school’s senior management team, and managed to secure £50 of initial start-up [...]

Paddington Academy
Paddington Academy students have benefitted from our Business and Maths programmes this year, going on trips to Oliver Wyman management consultants, Freshfields law firm and even helped us launch our new programmes at an evening reception hosted by UBS bank.

Their Maths course was based around choosing a new sport for the Olympics – but [...]

Science & Enterprise in Manchester Schools
Two of our Manchester schools have been collaborating this year on our new Science course, and its an experiment that definitely seems to have paid off!

Both Droylsden Academy and New Charter Academy have seen groups of students setting off on a journey of discovery, learning about science and enterprise at [...]