Chamber Service: Education

School Name: Woodfield Middle School Redditch

Title: Woodfield Middle School Careers and Business Focus Day

Date: March 2011

Woodfield Middle School recently held its first careers and business focus day as part of its regular Subject Development Programme.  The day was organised and coordinated by Lisa Guest, Deputy Head teacher.

The day saw a special focus for year 8 pupils, on learning about the World of Work. Each pupil could choose to attend an event according to their own interests. Participants included: Herefordshire and Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce, Barclay’s Bank, local company/ manufacturing representatives, including Bosch, Teacher Training/Education, Graphics Design, Theatre/ Arts, Education Business Partnership, Paramedics - first response calling.

This day was felt to be a great success as part of our aim to increase and develop partnership working and raise the profile of Work Related Learning.