With my school days well and truly in the past it was a pleasure to be invited to Coombeshead Academy in Newton Abbot to take part in the year ten’s business challenge day. The students were taking part in a “Coombeshead Academy meets The Apprentice” day with the emphasis on developing a campaign to raise money for the schools Ugandan Charity.
GleaveMedia were one of the local businesses who were invited to form the judging panel for the days activities. The students had been tasked to come up with a team profile and logo, a social media campaign, a bus stop poster and a fully costed proposal for a local fundraising event. The students had come up with an array of ideas ranging from a frozen drink campaign, multiple pop concerts and even an idea to host a dinner dance. The students certainly showed a great talent towards coming up with campaigns that contained the “wow” factor and being able to present their ideas clearly and enthusiastically to a panel of peers was very impressive. It’s great to see Coombeshead Academy realising the importance of getting it’s student ready for the world of work by involving the local businesses and seeing the students explore the skills that will be required of them when they enter the world of work is very encouraging.
I certainly enjoyed spending my time out the the office being back at school. It doesn’t hurt to remember we were all that age once and those school years are so very important in building the skills, ability and knowledge that will be required in the future
