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We are looking for individuals of all backgrounds, careers and abilities to support schools in Norwich with careers and enterprise activities.

You can offer as much (or as little) time as you are able to take part in sessions with local schools. The BBC have recently reported on how important Careers lessons are and the impact sessions can have on improving GCSE grades. Employer engagement gives students tangible role models … https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-48268267

We rely on support from individuals who volunteer their time to provide students with real world experiences, share their expertise or career journey and inspire children of all ages about different types of careers. There are all sorts of different ways you could be involved!

1. Support Primary School World of Work Activities

Activities that support children to explore different types of jobs and industries start at Primary school. Evidence shows how important it is to start these conversations early and provide children with role models in all sorts of different careers. For younger year groups, often careers with a uniform work particularly well. We are looking for individuals to support enterprise days and curriculum sessions over the next few months – see full details here.

2. Take part in Careers & Enterprise events in Secondary schools

All secondary schools run a programme of careers activities throughout the academic year which involve bringing people from all sorts of backgrounds and careers into schools. You could take part in events ranging from Careers “speed dating”, Dragon’s Den activities, enterprise challenge sessions, being a guest speaker, supporting students to write a CV, sector specific workshops, mock interviews or all sorts of other activities!

Please contact Hannah Colledge to find out more, or contact your local school directly.

3. Volunteer as an Enterprise Adviser

Enterprise Advisers work strategically with senior leaders in schools and college to develop and enhance their business engagement plans. If you could share your business experience, strategic expertise and contacts from your network to support schools in Norwich we would love to hear from you.

Please contact Hannah Colledge to find out more.

NPQ scholarship funding has been confirmed for the whole of the 2019/20 financial year (April 2019 to March 2020).

This means that:
Based on previous recruitment numbers, DfE will continue to fund the full offer up to the end of March 2020.
The eligibility criteria remain unchanged, i.e. participants working in a category 5 or 6 area, and those working in MATs or dioceses which cover those areas, will be eligible.

Opportunity Areas will continue to take priority.

Apply directly to a provider of your choice

For information on providers click here

This is an outline of current funded programmes that schools in Norwich can take up, with links to further details and contact details of providers and project managers. Some of the offers are time-limited with a deadline for sign-up, so take a look as soon as you can!

Primary Schools-

NOA – offers in a nutshell PRIMARY May 2019

Secondary Schools-

NOA – offers in a nutshell SECONDARY May 2019

35 Norwich pupils from Year 7 to 12 took part in a trip to Southend-on-Sea to investigate the seaside town’s rapid rise in social mobility since 2016.

The kind of changes they want to see include more robust and consistently applied behaviour policies, building on the mutual respect between teachers and pupils and creating a shared responsibility for learning to help them make the most of every opportunity.

Norwich Opportunity Area (OA) Youth Board and local pupils reported back their findings to head teachers, the Norwich Opportunity Area (OA) Partnership Board, and representatives from the Department for Education on April 26th.

We have four very exciting new projects in the pipeline but space for a few more!

We have re-opened the Community Innovation Fund for a second round looking for providers to deliver a CITYWIDE project and some LOCALITY projects. The deadline for both is 4pm Friday 7th June 2019. Find out more information here.

If you have any queries about the application form or would appreciate feedback about your project ideas we are holding an informal funding drop in session on Thursday 23rd May, 3-5pm at Marzanos (The Forum, Norwich) – come and say hello!

This fund looks for approaches that can encourage children and their families to have conversations about different types of jobs and think together about their skills, interests and future goals. Our intention is that more conversations take place and at an earlier age, with a focus on primary aged children and pupils in the early years of secondary school.