Business share expertise with pupils 04.03.08
Businessmen and women visited Belvoir High School in Bottesford on Thursday to share advice with pupils on entering the world of work.
Representatives from the British Geological Survey, Wilmott Dixon Construction, Grantham College, Connexions and the Regional Language Network spent the day working through activities with Year 9 students to get them thinking about the skills they will need for employment.
For the second year running, Sally Fagan from the Regional Language Network, talked to Year 9 students at Belvoir High School's Careers Day about how useful languages are in the workplace and how many opportunities it can bring. She was delighted to find that with the change of the school's status from a Middle School for 10 - 14 year olds to a Senior School for 11 - 16 year olds, the school had underlined the importance of a foreign language by keeping French as a required subject at GCSE.
Her talk contained quiz questions to expand the students' knowledge of languages around the world, and video clips of how people from apprentices at Rolls Royce up to the rich and famous have benefited from knowledge of another language. As well as proving how easy it can be to learn, by teaching the students to count to ten in Japanese in less than 5 minutes, Sally included anecdotes from her own career and her own video clip of being interviewed in French on Tahiti television. At least they know now where Tahiti is and why they speak French!
Careers co-ordinator Kathy Sparham said: "We had some very positive feedback from the students who found the day useful for preparing themselves for the world of work and learning new skills, such as team building and interview techniques."
Source: Grantham Journal
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