We now have a new Enterprise Showcase Blog. This Blog will act as a vehicle for pupils to share the Enterprising work they are doing to develop their skills for Life, Learning and Work.
If you would like your school to feature on the showcase, please email Lynn Taylor on First Class.
The Blog currently sits in Glow, so you’ll need your Glow login to access the site. www.bit.ly/pupilenterprise
Unfortunately it’s too late to join this year’s Micro-Tyco Challenge. But – it’s well worth finding out about with an eye to joining in next year. The WildHearts website is brilliant and has many clips, like the one from Sir Tom Hunter featured here, that can be used as a stimulus with pupils. Mike Jackson who runs Micro-Tyco is an absolute inspiration.
Micro-Tyco is the exciting new concept from WildHearts. Its vision is nothing less than the ignition of the spirit of enterprise across our whole culture, from our leading corporates to our universities, secondary and primary schools, and even nurseries. It is an enterprise challenge that brings our whole society together, reconnects us to one another, to what really matters, and compels us to collectively raise the bar in what we believe is possible for ourselves and our culture.
It inspires our companies to excel and our children to believe, creates compassionate global citizens and will inspire the leaders our country deserves.
Micro-Tyco is the product of over ten years experience in enterprise education and entrepreneurial success and is designed to invigorate our companies, challenge the dependency culture and stimulate self-reliance and enterprise. It is fast, fun and furious, forcing contestants to break out of their limited self perceptions and comfort zones. Micro-Tyco inspires the spirit of enterprise in its purest form and rewards participants with the knowledge that in business, if they can succeed at Micro-Tyco, they can succeed at anything.
How does it work? Micro-Tyco will run every November. Teams ‘apply’ to WildHearts for ‘seed capital’; a micro-loan of £1. Once the clock starts on November 1st they have one month to turn it into as much money as possible. On November 30th the team with the most money wins. There are only two rules: teams cannot gamble and transactions must be legal.
Who can enter? School, colleges, universities, clubs and companies can enter teams to Micro-Tyco. Each team must have no more than 5 members but each organisation can enter as many teams as they wish. Companies compete against companies, schools against schools and Universities and Colleges against each other, with one winner from each group.
Companies are encouraged to partner with a local school. In this partnership the teams remain separate but become allies who collaborate to exchange knowledge, encouragement and pool resources. Business people will inspire children and be inspired in return. The learning process is further enhanced by online video mentoring from many of our business leaders who support the WildHearts vision.
The competition keeps you sharp, the deadline keeps the pressure on. Micro-Tyco does not care about your qualifications or where you are from. Its apparent simplicity is deceptive. The low value of the £1 loan entices you to get involved but then takes you on a journey where the challenge grows with the money. It is a seed that reveals your inner wealth and helps you discover talents you never knew you had. As the money grows, so will you.
The money created from Micro-Tyco will then be invested by WildHearts in micro-loans to help the world’s poorest people work their own way out of poverty with dignity and self respect. As a result participants will go from becoming dynamic wealth creators to global ethical investors. Micro-Tyco’s gift to you will be the knowledge that once you release your talents the whole world benefits.
Unfortunately it’s too late to join this year’s Micro Tyco Challenge. But – it’s well worth finding out about with an eye to joining in next year. The WildHearts website is brilliant and has many clips, like the one from Sir Tom Hunter featured here, that can be used as a stimulus with pupils. Mike Jackson who runs Micro Tyco is an inspiration.
Micro-Tyco: Invest in yourself, invest in your company, invest in our children, invest in our community.
For more information click here
Is your establishment planning anything for this week’s Global Entrepreneur focus? If you are, please tell us about it. We are designing a new Blog to showcase good Enterprise practice from around our Authority and we need your help. From ante-preschool to S6, we want to show and share good practice.
Please send any photos or clips to Lynn Taylor on First Class.
November is Enterprise Month.
Here’s a wee nugget of good stuff from last year from Education Scotland. Packed full of ideas and resources.
Click on the pic for the link.
If your IDL task is on the theme of the Olympic Games, or if you are going to do absolutely anything within your classes related to London 2012, please register with Get Set! Click on the pic for the link.
Registration closes in December!
We are very fortunate to have Claire Fraser and Bert McGlone from the Scottish Social Enterprise Academy coming along to our next Primary Business meeting on the 28th October. To find out more information please check out their brilliant website and blog.
We’ll be hosting a Understanding Social Enterprise Workshop on the 25th November. It is funded by the Scottish Government – more details to follow. If you’re interested please email Lynn.
http://www.theacademy-ssea.org/
Here’s an interesting website – well worth taking a look around and subscribing to the podcasts on itunes.
If you haven’t already, check out Skills Development Scotland’s World of Work online tool.
It cleverly analyses using a number of clever and engaging approaches.
Especially try the ‘My DNA’ section.
Food for thought for students and teachers alike.
GO-XL! Will launch in Committee Room 1 in Kildonan Street on Tuesday 27th September between 0900hrs and 1115hrs. Many schools have already expressed their interest to be involved. If your school would like to participate in this event please contact Jim Lawson as soon as possible.
Enterprise Coordinators and representatives from the schools involved who will be working with the pupils are most welcome, as are representatives from associated cluster primaries. Time will be given during the morning for clusters to get together and organise their arrangements.
The programme for the morning is as follows:
0930hrs – Registration and Welcome
0940hrs – Project Background
1000hrs – Project Arrangements
1020hrs – Break
1040hrs – Cluster Arrangements
1115hrs – Close
For any more information please email either Jim Lawson or Lynn Taylor.
You will be aware that in recent years we have successfully linked with Foundry Music Lab in Wishaw to produce Project X.
The new project will be run along similar lines to Project X but with a major difference.
Whereas in the past the invitation to take part was restricted to Secondary/ASN establishments, this time it is intended to ask Secondary and Primary schools to work together in clusters thus making it cross sectoral as well as cross curricular. There will be a place set aside each year for ASN Establishments.
As we hope to be able to run this for the next 2 sessions we are restricting this session’s invitation to those schools in the south of the authority i.e. schools in the Motherwell, Wishaw and Bellshill areas. It is intended to invite those schools in the north i.e. Coatbridge, Airdrie and Cumbernauld to take part next session.
The proposal is that the management teams and bands will comprise secondary students only with a small group of primary pupils (maximum 12) joining the band to record 2 tracks for the CD/Download and perform at the launch gig in March 2012.
The timeline for the initiative is as follows:
Expressions of Interest to Jim Lawson by close of business on Friday 16 September to lawsonj @ northlan. gov. uk (remove spaces)
Launch in Committee Room 1, to be attended by Enterprise Co-ordinators, on Tuesday 27 September from 9.30 am until 11.30 am
Start of project meetings at Foundry Music Lab during the week beginning 10 October
Download Launch gig towards the end of March 2012, exact date and venue to be confirmed
If you have any queries about any of the above information please do not hesitate to contact Jim Lawson on 01236 812626 or Lynn Taylor through First Class email.
