Envision – Awards Evening 2016

The Community-Apprentice Programme, run by Envision, is an extra-curricular activity that involves Sixth Form students from Birmingham, Bristol and London. Twenty eight year twelve students from HGS participated in the programme this year, which aims to develop projects within school and in the local community. For more information about Envision, please visit their website at www.envision.org.uk.

Following months of hard work, planning and implementation, both teams (Mentality and Concept) from HGS made it into the Awards Evening to find out which of the qualifying schools had won the competition and which teams would win one of several awards up for grabs.

All 21 teams from our 10 schools on Community-Apprentice were nominated for a range of skills awards, reflecting the six core competencies developed throughout the competition. The categories were highly competitive and judges had a tough time choosing a winner in each.

Team Concept from HGS was nominated for the Problem-solving and Resilience Award but unfortunately did not win. However, Team Mentality was nominated for and won the Empathy Award 2016. The HGS students were described by the judges as being, “…passionate about dementia care and mental health, they showed great empathy throughout their project, linking with a local care home.”

Team Mentality Digital story: https://youtu.be/LSzDl5KmARA D

Team Concept Digital story: https://youtu.be/bVTRGHxiwmk

We would like to take this opportunity to thank ALL the mentors from Interserve and Envision who gave up so much of their time in service of our students – the level of support the students received helped to propel them towards yet another successful year with Interserve and Envision.

Finally, our congratulations go to team ‘Eco-Freakos’ from Swanshurst School for winning The Community Apprentice Award 2016 – a well-deserved win!

Mr Ahmed