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IntroductionHello!
As a team of teachers, we set up Enabling Enterprise to
help our students become rounded and successful. We
wanted to do more to build our students’ enterprise
skills, their understanding of the world of work and high
aspirations.
We focus particularly on eight core skills that are the
essentials: Teamwork & Leadership; Listening &
Presenting; Aiming High & Staying Positive; Problem-
Solving & Creativity.
We start by understanding where your students’
strengths and weaknesses currently lie, and then train
teachers on how to teach these skills effectively.
Building on this foundation, Enabling Enterprise builds
high levels of competence in these skills through
innovative programmes of lesson-time projects,
challenge days and trips to visit top businesses.
With Enabling Enterprise, your students could be
carrying out a debate in English with a top law firm,
designing a new brand of chocolate in mathematics, or
seeing ICT in action by working with IBM.
It’s been exciting to see the impact of our work on over
last seven years, and the growing number of students
we’ve supported – over 80,000 this year already - and
hope this booklet inspires you to get involved too.
Tom and the Enabling Enterprise Team
info@enablingenterprise.org
www.enablingenterprise.org Page 2
Why we ExistWe work to ensure that all students develop the eight key enterprise
skills and attributes they need for future success:
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How we WorkWe work in partnership with over one hundred top businesses and other
employers including:
Professional
& Business
Services
Construction
&
Manufacture
Creative
Industries
Retail &
Logistics
And many
others
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There are two parts to our secondary school programmes:
Lesson time projects
A wide selection of lesson-time projects, designed in 10 session blocks.
Each project builds on the students’ enterprise skills, whilst also linking
to learning across other parts of the curriculum.
Challenge days
Exciting and engaging days run in school, coordinated by EE staff.
Challenge days cover a range of optional topics, including introductions
to politics, business or the world of work.
Business trips
Designed to draw out the links between the lesson-time projects and the
“real world”, hosted by a business partner. Includes meeting employees
and an engaging game or simulation.
Skills assessment
A complete skills assessment
using our rigorous framework to
support students’ development.
This enables a more finely tuned
approach to focus on where the
students need the most support.
Staff training
We run CPD sessions in school
for all teachers on developing the
8 core enterprise skills.
We help teachers to run or
design successful enterprise and
work-related projects.
Our Programmes
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Foundations
Putting it into Action
By the end of Year 7
Below target: I help my team make
decisions and I am happy to support
others’ ideas.
Target: I recognise the value of
others’ ideas and try to add extra
ideas too.
Better: I am helpful to others in their
tasks and include all team mates in
discussions.
Best: I can spot when I might be
getting into an argument and take
steps to avoid it.
We use a skills levelling framework so we can quantifiably see progress
over time, rather than just relying on students’ confidence.
Foundations Part 1:
Skills Assessment
.Year 13: Target
7 13
Ye
ar
13
Year 13: Best
Year 13: Better
Year 13: Below Target
Year 7: TargetYe
ar
7
Year 7: Best
Year 7: Better
Year 7: Below Target
Example:
Working in a Team
By the end of Year 13
Below target: I reflect on the team’s
progress and make suggestions for
improvements.
Target: I can reflect and evaluate on the
team’s approaches to tasks and carefully
influence to get better results.
Better: I’m aware of the team leader’s
strengths and weaknesses and actively
support them when they need me.
Best: I understand the skills of other team
members and adapt my approach to
them.
The Impact
Through EE…
3.5 months extra progress
Above target progress
Below
39%
Above
29%
On
32%
Over a year working with Enabling
Enterprise, 96% of teachers see a change
in their students’ skills that they attribute to
the programme.
The results of the students’ skills
assessment are further evidence that this
gap can be closed:
After a year of Enabling Enterprise,
the youngest students close their
skills gap and move ahead of
expectations –making it easier to
stay on track in the future. The older
students meaningfully narrow the
gap.
This year, our Year 6 students saw
their skills gap close by 50% after
one year on the programme.
The skills gap can shrink
Students on Enabling Enterprise
programmes consistently make more
than their target 1.0 level of progress
per year. The average student made
1.13 levels of progress last year, and
established school programmes
made 1.20 levels of progress each
year.
Our students accelerate
1.09 1.10 1.10 1.11 1.13 1.14 1.16 1.17
Below
34%
On
45%
0
2
4
6
8
Start ofYear 6
Without EE With EE
Of EE
teachers
See tangible
improvements
in their
students’
enterprise
skills
96%
Our team of outstanding qualified teachers help your teachers to build
their confidence in teaching enterprise and supporting their students’
progress.
Foundation Part 2:
Staff Training
Core support includes:
• Initial teacher training: Introducing effective enterprise education
and the EE Programmes.
• Embedding the skills: Exploring your students’ skills, with practical
application for how to develop them in the classroom
• Learning walks: Supporting teachers delivering programmes in the
classroom, providing specific feedback and ideas.
• Building on the skills: Reflecting with teachers to analyse the
progress their students have made and future development.
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Wider support includes:
• Modelling and feedback:
Modelling programme
delivery, to get the most out of
EE resources, with an
opportunity to reflect.
• Curriculum planning:
Supporting teachers to plan
their projects effectively to
specific school curriculums.
• Skill focus: Maximising
progression in a particular
Challenge Skill (e.g. staying
positive or leading).
Putting it into Action Part 1:
Lesson-Time Projects
Three examples from our 60+ projects:
Maths: Racing Machines
Vehicle Manufacture
(6 sessions)
Students use their skills in shape and space to design new vehicles.
They then experiment with them, producing reports that analyse the data
on their performance.
Year 10 English: Legal Eagles
Law
(6 sessions)
Students take on the role of lawyers in a trial, planning and performing
persuasive speeches. By the end of the project, the students
understand the legal world, and the power of words.
Year 12 Business & Careers: Dreams to Reality
Enterprise
(12 sessions)
Students plan, develop and implement their own businesses. The project
provides excellent opportunities for students to develop and demonstrate
core transferable skills, which can give a boost to their CVs and UCAS
applications.
EE lesson-time projects bring your students’ learning to life. Each project
is supported by a leading business. They give your students a chance to
develop and apply new enterprise skills, while widening their
understanding of the world of work:
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Some of the Challenge Day options:
Business in a Day: Students work in teams to set up and run a their
own small company, including production and marketing.
Social Entrepreneur: Students identify a need or challenge in their
school or community, and develop ideas to solve them.
A Day in Politics: Students learn about democracy and politics through
games, including setting up their own political parties.
Chocolate Challenge: Students set up a new chocolate brand using
market research, financial modelling and 3D design.
Moon Base: Students explore the world of work by having to create a
new community on the moon from scratch.
Invest it Best: Students work in teams as trading desks, choosing and
competing to achieve the most prudent investment.
Commit to Confidence: Students experience simulated professional
scenarios to develop their confidence in applying their skills after school.
Our Challenge Days provide an exciting and engaging way for students
across a class, a year group or even the whole school to work together
and use their enterprise skills.
The challenges include everything you need to make the day a success,
with videos to launch each section, as well as support from EE on the
day. They are also linked to curriculum outcomes.
Putting it into Action Part 2:
Challenge Days
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Law in Action: Students turn around a failing legal firm by bidding for
cases and exploring how the law and morals interact.
Focus Focus: Reflecting on their own skills and the careers they are
interested in pursuing.
Our business trips help students to make the link between the enterprise
skills they are developing in the classroom and how they are used in the
working world.
The trips include the chance to work with volunteers from the business,
as well as taking part in a game to give a flavour of the industry.
We run trips to over 80 businesses and employers. Some examples are:
Putting it into Action Part 3:
Trips to Businesses
Société Générale
International Business
Students visiting the offices of French investment bank Société Générale
are quickly immersed in the world of international business. Meeting a
variety of volunteers from across the world, a trading game explores how
the global economy functions.
Birmingham Airport
Transport
Students learn about Birmingham Airport and the huge range of different
roles that people have at an airport. They apply their learning by
designing new branding for one of the airlines they meet.
London Business School
Careers in Business
Students visiting London Business School are spoilt with the range of
business professionals that they are able to talk to. The day gives
students the chance to explore different industries, from advertising to
engineering, before working with MBA students to create “career maps”.
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Get InvolvedWe are now able to work with schools
across England from our bases in
Birmingham, London and Manchester.
We have a full range of partnership
packages available according to the
priorities of your school.
To set up a phone call or meeting,
please don’t hesitate to email us at
info@enablingenterprise.org
Alternatively, find the right contact for
your region at:
www.enablingenterprise.org/contact
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Enabling Enterprise have worked in partnership with Heartlands
Academy for the past 3 years.
It is evident that our students have grown in confidence and are
developing the skills and knowledge to seek information about their
future choices. Students are aware of routes into employment and
the skills and character attributes required to be employable.
As well as student achievement, our continuing engagement with
Enabling Enterprise not only supports and benefits our students,
but our academy as well, contributing to our Outstanding Ofsted
rating.
- Community Director, Heartlands Academy
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Enabling Enterprise is a not-for-profit partnership of schools and
businesses transforming students’ enterprise skills, experiences of
the working world and aspirations.
Contact us:
info@enablingenterprise.org
London | Birmingham | Manchester
www.enablingenterprise.org© Enabling Enterprise | all rights reserved
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