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The Fletcher Challenge Trust Young Enterprise Scheme benefits students nationwide |
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Introducing the Young Enterprise Scheme into van Asch Deaf Education Centre was seen as a way for students to develop their enterprising skills. The teams developed an idea (sign language stickers) and worked to produce and market the final product. A mentor for each of the students ensured they could compete with mainstream hearing students throughout New Zealand.
Their teacher Joce White says this was one of her best years in her long teaching career.
“We have been fully involved and were able to participate in the Fletcher Challenge Young Enterprise Examination. This group of students began the year with an ‘I can’t’ attitude and the programme has helped to turn this around. They have been extended in the most positive way and they now all have goals for the future.”
“I just wanted to let you know how valuable this programme has been. We are now going to start Enterprise Studies in the middle school with two more teachers being involved,” Joce said.
The students of van Asch (known as ASHM Business) won the National Award for Commitment at the Young Enterprise National Awards in 2000. They shared this award with Hamilton Boys’ High School.
Garry Moore, Mayor of Christchurch, further endorsed the work of the Young Enterprise scheme.
“Young people need to get a sense of enterprise and business as young as possible which is why I am a fan of the Young Enterprise Scheme. YES gives students the opportunity to learn from the bottom up how a business operates,” he said.
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Governance These partnerships assist the work of school management and Boards of Trustees (BOT), particularly in areas where schools cannot easily access the services, advice and support that tend to be more readily available in other communities. Partners from the company are likely to join a school’s BOT or serve on a foundation that empowers local people. more »Mentoring Partnerships of this type have developed to help students reach their full potential if they happen to come from backgrounds that might not have provided them with the insight into their potential for further study and career opportunities that mentoring can offer. Mentor relationships are often associated with some other form of partnership. more »Education Enhancement The school benefits from such a partnership through an additional teaching programme which enhances the existing curriculum. This programme may be delivered by teachers through business support, or businesses may fund delivery by specialist instructors working in partnership with the school. Businesses can form a generic education enhancement programme with a partner school, or they can become involved with one of the six existing specific programmes: • Kiwi Can • Project K • Books in Homes • Young Enterprise Scheme • Enterprise Studies • Primary Enterprise Programme • Sea and Learn more »Vocational In this type of partnership the business and a local school seek to find common ground where they can work together on areas of mutual benefit. Often this involves a project where students gain measurable outcomes in a curriculum area, while working in an authentic business environment with hands-on support from the partner business. more »Scholarship Businesses can award scholarships to individual students. Their future is supported by an investment in their tertiary education as well as holiday work, plus career and study guidance from the partnering business. more »Sponsorship This type of partnership looks at how firms can offer financial support to a school, particularly those in remote or low-decile areas, via the goods and services that a business can offer in order to improve a school’s resource base. more » |
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