Dear Year 10
we have an opportunity in partnership with Martin Lewis from MoneySavingExpert.com website to teach you loads about it.
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Friday, 7 December 2018
Tuesday, 4 December 2018
Imberhorne School Careers Academy supporter of teh Gatsby Foundation
Dear all
this is an exciting list of training providers and employers for anyone is is thinking about not going to uni or even maybe:
Music, video and more with SAE Institute
this is an exciting list of training providers and employers for anyone is is thinking about not going to uni or even maybe:
Music, video and more with SAE Institute
Monday, 3 December 2018
Thursday, 29 November 2018
Building standards, leadership and character in all that we do.
Building standards, leadership, character and a network to support them is our challenge at Imberhorne School for the next generation of young people in East Grinstead.
I always say that there SHOULD be no difference between the best state schools and private schools. After all the government spends over £113bn on state education in the UK (Fact check) I also think that any young person in a state school will find their way and get what they need out of it through hard slog and effort. That said they don’t always realise the benefit of what they do on their way.
All schools should be looking for any opportunity to develop the real skills and characteristics that young people need for life. Their ability to maintain standards, develop their leadership skills as well as develop their personal character is what will see them succeed and live a fulfilled life in whatever they choose to do. Private schools do this very well. They even offer discounted places to young people that have these skills and abilities already so that they can infect the others. State schools need to catch up. The other difference is the network. Private schools instil in their young people the need to develop it from the start and use it for their entire life. Most state school students don’t understand that they have one never mind use it. That’s a very different life for them and contributes greatly to the distribution of wealth within our society. Shockingly after the average life time in the UK the average net worth of the poorest in society amounts to £7000 and the net worth of the average wealthiest £700,000.
That said one young woman from Imberhorne School is developing all the important skills both in school and outside of it. You might remember her name. Niamh Doyle. Last year with her sister Ruby they launched Kitter Natters under the Peter Jones Tycoon in School Foundation. Since then she been selected to attend the 2019 Jamboree in the USA. A once in a lifetime to network and develop all the skills outlined above but it costs £2,700 to go so she put her thinking cap on and spent the summer raising the money. Her last event was at the Ghurka Restaurant last Monday evening. Over 40 people attended including the town Mayor and she raised a further £620 from it.
Niamh Doyle is going to the USA. She didn’t just raise the money for her trip she had some left. Not enough to pay for someone else to go to the Jamboree but enough to pay for the entire uniform for someone less fortunate to join the scouting movement as well as their subscription for their first full year.
You don’t always get to see ‘joined up thinking’ in action in this busy world but isn’t it great when our youth show us the way. Working in partnership, creating opportunities between businesses in the community and our schools and doing something about the cost of stuff we want to do rather than making excuses not to do it! Our young people are the future and we all have a role in their development. As they say it takes a whole village to develop a child, but we need to encourage them to find their passion and support that development by signposting them to whatever initiative will help them on their way. Now is the time to focus on what’s important. The next revolution is on its way!
Sunday, 25 November 2018
Careers in Building - Take the Challenge - How would you conserve a historic or traditional building?
My Kinda Future in partnership with CIOB
The Chartered Institute of Buildings
would like to hear from you.
The Challenge
Enter by clicking here
You will need to register to set up an account so use your personal email address as you cant get stuff at school.
You will need to register to set up an account so use your personal email address as you cant get stuff at school.
You can submit your entry in any format.
Film it, Draw it, Model it or write it
Closing date is 28th February 2019
You might just win yourself a great work experience opportunity!
You might just win yourself a great work experience opportunity!
Good luck
Mr T
Great schools are full of great people but when are we going to appreciate them and allow them to take the lead?
On Friday I had the privilege and pleasure of attending London Skills 2018 Every employer delivered the same message. We want the young people now, after GCSE's and A levels and are happy to train them to secure a degree. I asked one young lady to put it into her own words, and she did an excellent pitch to the camera in one take below.
The sad thing is that the employers are disconnected from the politicians and politicians make it impossible for the teachers to have an even more significant impact on what they do.
The United Kingdon is at a crossroads in its history. We have the opportunity to export our World Class Skills and knowledge to a broader audience, a global audience. Many who work and teach here already do but we need to start doing things differently f we can sustain the demand of talent that the bluechip companies need and signpost our young people in school, college and University into the direction that is personal to them.
Schools are best placed to be the catalyst to achieve all of this. They have passionate, dedicated subject experts to pass on and share their knowledge and skills to the next generation and still an army of non-teaching staff to support it but in doing so, they should be exciting, inspiring and encouraging those that they teach to dream big and expect more. Expect more from themselves, expect more from their teachers and hope for more from the school and the broader communities and companies that want them to join them.
Sadly teachers are blinkered to deliver a curriculum based around a scheme of work to get great results and the latest changes to the curriculum have destroyed the opportunities to be creative in its delivery as there's no time left to do anything more than teach content and techniques on how to pass exams. As a result, the opportunities to encourage kids to work on extended projects are lost. The ability for kids to work collaboratively is often missed. The time to stop and think about what they are doing is slotted into homework, tutor time or an after-school masterclass, that someone has created from the teaching team. That's not how the world of commerce works, so we are doing every one of our school-age children a disservice, and no one is brave enough, bold enough to say stop we need to do it differently. Why is that?
Is it because the politicians can't cope with change or are it that they don't understand it or why they need it? Evolution is a fact of life. Yes, it stresses people out if they are not warned about it or training to be ready for it but everything changes all the time. Surely we need to be embracing it and tooling up young people to harness it not keep the status quo.
This is my tenth year as a teacher and I have managed to avoid any opportunity for promotion as being in the classroom 23 hours a week is the best part of the job. I've worked in national challenge schools, those that have great leadership but are struggling to fast track pupils with a low aspiration to achieve more than they started with. I've worked in what Ofsted have rated Good schools, which in my opinion were not good enough but I have never worked in an outstanding school. My challenge to this school has always been the same. Be a benchmark for all schools to follow.
Being on a journey is one thing but being on a quest to greatness is very different. Schools need to take responsibility for themselves and their learning as they communicate with their pupils. They need to stop being hampered by budget cuts and attract their own private sources of finance to replace the priorities they have. Preferences such as IT, development of their top talent, provide the best extracurricular opportunities for their students who are after all their primary customer and sorting out the poorest in the community to inspire them and their parents and carers to engage attend and attain. We are the fifth biggest economy in the world generating over £950bn a year in tax revenue so I do not believe that local and regional business would not bridge the budget gaps their local schools face but I know of one school who is about to embark and test it.
That said schools need to refocus on their purpose for being. They are places that should create fulfilment in young people that attend them and prepare them for a successful and happy life. Policy from government needs to focus on that so schools and their teaching teams not forgetting the army of support staff that can facilitate the most significant change and crack on with it. I have never met anyone that has told me that fulfilled, contentment and a happy person is unlikely to be a successful person. Last week the church and the press explained what a disaster we are creating with mental health across all age groups so let's stop the trend and focus on the age group that we have in front of us 25 hours a week in school to start to change the tide and let others focus on the rest.
By creating a different environment and signposting learners down a pathway, that is personalised to them will fast-track this process. We can't keep accepting that kids will sort themselves out. It takes too long, and those that are in the wrong class just fight and protest as a result of it.
As a country, we are great at developing academics. The politicians love them as they come up with all the research and suggestions that underpin their policies but as high as they are at academic thinking and research-based decision making they are rubbish at joined-up thinking and lack common sense, so nothing ever changes that is impactful! The academics will always have a pathway in our society. Thye follow the traditional GCSE and A level route into University and beyond.
The vocational learners, those that learn by doing and link their work to developing their skills through work-related activities have also done well. Although we don't identify those earlier enough or provide as wow a package to excite and inspire them. They often have to settle for a BTEC at level 2 or level 3 in isolation of a fuller package. How hard is it really to add three additional dimensions? Work experience within the field of expertise they are studying and make this as productive and effective as they do in Germany. The third extra dimension to this cohorts learning has to be a business mentor for the whole class they find themselves in. These people can deliver a real flash challenge for them to work on collaboratively in teams and throughout the year and pop back termly to view their progress and give feedback on it. The final piece of the pie should be a TED talk to every student in the local area studying the same thing once or twice a year. A chance to meet up and share all the great stuff that they have been working on. All of a sudden you have more than just a vocational provision you have a world-class professional arrangement by subject area and students that are world class ready for the global world of work.
Now lets quickly consider those students who are bouncing around every classroom and hate being in school and try every day to escape or avoid it as they find it hard, dull and boring. Now let's consider that they just might be the entrepreneurs. They are potentially wealth creators. The job creators. The ones that think differently but that no one understands. This rare breed probably amounts to no more than 12-24 in a year group so no more than just a class! How hard then can it be to provide a provision just for them based on a tailor-made version of the vocational package above. During a recent business challenge week, we used the Global Enterprise Week initiative to reach out to someone in the community who believes the same. He kindly allowed me to record that too to share, so I've shared it below here.
I am delighted to work in the school that I do, but my challenge to them is to be brave and bold and create an environment that is even bigger and better at all of the above. Don't get me wrong its the best school that I've ever worked in and probably as good as most private schools but we have much to do, and they haven't asked me to leave yet!
The universe I believe provides us with all the solutions to all the problems we face. We just have to find them. To think harder. To try harder and work collaboratively to share what we have with others so that they can add to it and make it better. That's what businesses do. That's what schools need to do.
As for the government and the academics, they need to catch up and get on board. After all, we are entirely capable of little joined-up thinking if we try and I believe that all that's required with most things.
As Ruskin once said, "Quality is never an accident. It is usually a result of some intelligent effort" Intelligence and character are what we need to develop in our young people. Everything else will follow if our central focus is on those first, foremost and in everything we do!
The sad thing is that the employers are disconnected from the politicians and politicians make it impossible for the teachers to have an even more significant impact on what they do.
The United Kingdon is at a crossroads in its history. We have the opportunity to export our World Class Skills and knowledge to a broader audience, a global audience. Many who work and teach here already do but we need to start doing things differently f we can sustain the demand of talent that the bluechip companies need and signpost our young people in school, college and University into the direction that is personal to them.
Schools are best placed to be the catalyst to achieve all of this. They have passionate, dedicated subject experts to pass on and share their knowledge and skills to the next generation and still an army of non-teaching staff to support it but in doing so, they should be exciting, inspiring and encouraging those that they teach to dream big and expect more. Expect more from themselves, expect more from their teachers and hope for more from the school and the broader communities and companies that want them to join them.
Sadly teachers are blinkered to deliver a curriculum based around a scheme of work to get great results and the latest changes to the curriculum have destroyed the opportunities to be creative in its delivery as there's no time left to do anything more than teach content and techniques on how to pass exams. As a result, the opportunities to encourage kids to work on extended projects are lost. The ability for kids to work collaboratively is often missed. The time to stop and think about what they are doing is slotted into homework, tutor time or an after-school masterclass, that someone has created from the teaching team. That's not how the world of commerce works, so we are doing every one of our school-age children a disservice, and no one is brave enough, bold enough to say stop we need to do it differently. Why is that?
Is it because the politicians can't cope with change or are it that they don't understand it or why they need it? Evolution is a fact of life. Yes, it stresses people out if they are not warned about it or training to be ready for it but everything changes all the time. Surely we need to be embracing it and tooling up young people to harness it not keep the status quo.
This is my tenth year as a teacher and I have managed to avoid any opportunity for promotion as being in the classroom 23 hours a week is the best part of the job. I've worked in national challenge schools, those that have great leadership but are struggling to fast track pupils with a low aspiration to achieve more than they started with. I've worked in what Ofsted have rated Good schools, which in my opinion were not good enough but I have never worked in an outstanding school. My challenge to this school has always been the same. Be a benchmark for all schools to follow.
Being on a journey is one thing but being on a quest to greatness is very different. Schools need to take responsibility for themselves and their learning as they communicate with their pupils. They need to stop being hampered by budget cuts and attract their own private sources of finance to replace the priorities they have. Preferences such as IT, development of their top talent, provide the best extracurricular opportunities for their students who are after all their primary customer and sorting out the poorest in the community to inspire them and their parents and carers to engage attend and attain. We are the fifth biggest economy in the world generating over £950bn a year in tax revenue so I do not believe that local and regional business would not bridge the budget gaps their local schools face but I know of one school who is about to embark and test it.
That said schools need to refocus on their purpose for being. They are places that should create fulfilment in young people that attend them and prepare them for a successful and happy life. Policy from government needs to focus on that so schools and their teaching teams not forgetting the army of support staff that can facilitate the most significant change and crack on with it. I have never met anyone that has told me that fulfilled, contentment and a happy person is unlikely to be a successful person. Last week the church and the press explained what a disaster we are creating with mental health across all age groups so let's stop the trend and focus on the age group that we have in front of us 25 hours a week in school to start to change the tide and let others focus on the rest.
By creating a different environment and signposting learners down a pathway, that is personalised to them will fast-track this process. We can't keep accepting that kids will sort themselves out. It takes too long, and those that are in the wrong class just fight and protest as a result of it.
As a country, we are great at developing academics. The politicians love them as they come up with all the research and suggestions that underpin their policies but as high as they are at academic thinking and research-based decision making they are rubbish at joined-up thinking and lack common sense, so nothing ever changes that is impactful! The academics will always have a pathway in our society. Thye follow the traditional GCSE and A level route into University and beyond.
The vocational learners, those that learn by doing and link their work to developing their skills through work-related activities have also done well. Although we don't identify those earlier enough or provide as wow a package to excite and inspire them. They often have to settle for a BTEC at level 2 or level 3 in isolation of a fuller package. How hard is it really to add three additional dimensions? Work experience within the field of expertise they are studying and make this as productive and effective as they do in Germany. The third extra dimension to this cohorts learning has to be a business mentor for the whole class they find themselves in. These people can deliver a real flash challenge for them to work on collaboratively in teams and throughout the year and pop back termly to view their progress and give feedback on it. The final piece of the pie should be a TED talk to every student in the local area studying the same thing once or twice a year. A chance to meet up and share all the great stuff that they have been working on. All of a sudden you have more than just a vocational provision you have a world-class professional arrangement by subject area and students that are world class ready for the global world of work.
Now lets quickly consider those students who are bouncing around every classroom and hate being in school and try every day to escape or avoid it as they find it hard, dull and boring. Now let's consider that they just might be the entrepreneurs. They are potentially wealth creators. The job creators. The ones that think differently but that no one understands. This rare breed probably amounts to no more than 12-24 in a year group so no more than just a class! How hard then can it be to provide a provision just for them based on a tailor-made version of the vocational package above. During a recent business challenge week, we used the Global Enterprise Week initiative to reach out to someone in the community who believes the same. He kindly allowed me to record that too to share, so I've shared it below here.
I am delighted to work in the school that I do, but my challenge to them is to be brave and bold and create an environment that is even bigger and better at all of the above. Don't get me wrong its the best school that I've ever worked in and probably as good as most private schools but we have much to do, and they haven't asked me to leave yet!
The universe I believe provides us with all the solutions to all the problems we face. We just have to find them. To think harder. To try harder and work collaboratively to share what we have with others so that they can add to it and make it better. That's what businesses do. That's what schools need to do.
As for the government and the academics, they need to catch up and get on board. After all, we are entirely capable of little joined-up thinking if we try and I believe that all that's required with most things.
As Ruskin once said, "Quality is never an accident. It is usually a result of some intelligent effort" Intelligence and character are what we need to develop in our young people. Everything else will follow if our central focus is on those first, foremost and in everything we do!
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