Our school, Carnwadric Primary School, is currently setting up an eTwinning partnership with Boleslaw Chrobry, a primary school in Poland. We are planning to do a “Travelling Bear” project, where a Polish teddy bear is sent to us and a Scottish bear is sent over to them. We will take the Polish bear all around Glasgow, photographing him at all the main landmarks, and the children from Boleslaw Chrobry will do the same for our bear.

Old Swinford Hospital is a secondary school attempting to launch school businesses. We have independent advisers and offer funding to students’ enterprise ideas. We run a Business Challenge in conjunction with Edgbaston High School for Girls and local businesses at the the end of each lower sixth year. The programme allows the students from both schools to collaberate on real world problems with such companies as Cadbury’s, the NHS, Armed Forces Careers and Royal Mail. We have also set up the OSH Community. This organisation is here to maintain communication and relationships with local businesses and other schools. It encompasses such schemes as Beacon, Enterprise Learning Pathfinder and our links with St John’s Senior Secondary School, Uganda and Pen’s Meadow School.

In National Enterprise Week 2005, we began forging strong links with local businesses and community through talks and breakfasts. We were involved with Outposts Ltd and a number of other Somerset schools in developing a project which will see a party of 20 Somerset students traveling to Peru in 2007. We were putting together this team of yr 10 students to engage in community and commercial activities to raise money and awareness of the plight of street children living around the ancient capital of Peru, Cuzzo. We set up Taunton Enterprise Network with 5 other local schools St. Augustine’s, Ladymead, Castle, Heathfield, Courtsfield and Kingsmead. We were able to share good practice and reconfirm our desire to work together in delivering high quality enterprise education to the students in Taunton. We have lots of internal Enterprise Challenges including Conference Day Programme, Enterprise in Action, Project Business, Playing for Success, Masterclass, Rapid Response Challenge, Work Skills, Entrepreneur Skills, Going for Profit. We were given the Project Business Award 2005 & 2006 for Somerset for all our efforts to promote enterprise. As for Taunton Chamber of Commerce, the school is a member so as to reflect its interest in the local business …

We are overflowing with enterprise! Our year 8 Enterprise Club set up in 2005 to sponsor a child in Pakistan through Action Aid. This has grown and grown, we even had a rolling auction of Wembley Stadium Memorabilia, donated by Wembley National Stadium Ltd. to support our cause! Year 12 took year 7 to LaserQuest in Hemel Hempstead as part of an enterprise acitivity. Yr12 students also set up a company called ICE (Identity Card Enterprise), with HSBC Young Enterprise scheme’s guidance. Identity Card Enterprise designed, produced and sold travel card holders in school, trade fairs and even a stall in Uxbridge town centre! The student led production “Best of Musicals” raised over £2000 for Multiple Sclerosis Society and sales of DVD raised over £250!!