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Making massive Easter eggs to hang up in the local The Warehouse was the task assigned to children at Marfell Community School in New Plymouth, facilitated by Partners New Zealand Trust.
Liz Shaw, the Principal of Marfell Community School and Alan Vincent, Team Leader at The Warehouse have developed a vocational partnership that benefits both sides. Since Alan’s daughter had attended the school and the Marfell community were a large percentage of The Warehouse’s clientele, a partnership made sense.
Firstly, Liz was taken on a tour of The Warehouse and various aspects of the company’s business administration were explained to her. She was also given the opportunity to watch as the ticket writer effortlessly produced signs and price tickets at a rapid rate, and to learn first hand about the policy of zero waste and recycling.
A brief was then sent to the school, requesting that a class make twenty huge Easter eggs to hang up amongst The Warehouse’s Easter shop decorations. The school jumped at the opportunity to get students involved and the eggs were subsequently delivered to The Warehouse and hung up.
“They looked great and the children were very proud of their efforts,” Liz says. The Warehouse has also given the school its plants that are too damaged to sell, or which are being replaced.
“This is in keeping with their zero waste policy but it also fits in with the school’s desire to help children learn about gardening and plants. I’m glad to have the opportunity to improve the gardens around the school,” Liz says.
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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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