Sirius Enterprise Trailblazers!
Sirius Academy students are on a roll!
In support of Global Enterprise Week, Sirius Academy launched its’ first event to celebrate Global Enterprise week and hosted National Enterprise 2015 semi-finals. Year 10 students, in teams, were pitted against their peers to complete a brief set by Alton Towers. Students had to create a new type of attraction that would contain a feature never seen before, but, at the same time, would be in keeping with the feel and ‘fantastic escapism’ of the theme park.
Year 10 students investigated their target markets and had to manage a budget of only £15 million to create and market their new fantastic attraction. After a nail biting round of team presentations to the panel of judges, the winning design ELEMENTAL managed to pip the others to the winning line with their unique idea. The winning team consisting of Connor Bailey, Ben Macklin, Reece Pickering and Morgan Winters were overjoyed to find that their hard work had paid off.
Please pass on congratulations to the Elemental Team and wish them well for the finals in July 2015. Fingers crossed!
Sirius Academy hosted its’ first in-house Year 7 Transition Enterprise day on Tuesday 18th November 2014. Students took part in three different sessions that focused upon building their understanding of what being entrepreneurial means, and what the ‘Big 13 Skills’ are. Year 7 students began by identifying current entrepreneurs and their brands; they then completed their first ‘Spaghetti Tower Challenge’ as well as a ‘Gift of the Gab’ challenge, students were tasked with redesigning ‘broken’ products such as flat tyres, springs, chocolate tea pots and old trainers . The winning spaghetti design was 57cm tall and the winning team for both tasks were Elisha-Mae Reeve, Ria Mazingham, Sumah Zulfqar, Elle-May Stark, Ellie Cortney and Nadia Altaani.
The final competition, the central focus of the day, was for students to complete the main challenge which was to design a Xmas themed smoothie which would be sold for a week in the Academy during December at the new smoothie bar. After tough competition and some outstanding presentations by the teams, the winning smoothie team was Albert Litwinski vel Sygnowski, Nathan Young, Lewis Wilson and Katie Brown and their winning smoothie design, coming soon, called ‘Rudolph’s Surprise’.
Thank you to all staff who helped to support these events and make them such a success. Please pass on congratulations to the students involved, they did brilliantly!!
