Envision Update

Building on the success of the ‘Envision Community-Apprentice Programme’ that our students enjoyed over the past three years, we are pleased to continue working with Envision to offer our students the opportunity to give something back to the community through project-based activities.

This is an exclusive programme involving Sixth Form students from select schools in Birmingham, London and Bristol only. The students work together with local volunteers, schools, businesses and charities to provide a practical learning experience. This will enable the students to develop the necessary life-long skills needed to succeed both at work and private life. In return, the students invest their time in developing projects guided by their assigned business mentors, which give back to the community. For more information about Envision, please visit their website at www.envision.org.uk

As part of the programme, Envision have linked each school with a local business to provide mentoring opportunities by their trained professionals in order to help students develop key employability skills. We are pleased to announce that, for the fourth year running, our school has been partnered with Interserve, a multi-billion pound corporation and one of the world’ foremost support services and construction companies. On conclusion of the programme, the Interserve mentors will write a ‘Competency Reference’ letter for each student in order to showcase the skills they developed during the course of the programme. Students can then take this document with them to future job or university interviews. To learn more about their work, please visit their website at www.interserve.com

As part of the programme, students will attend a number of workshops and competitions at various locations across Birmingham city. Details about these events will be forthcoming from Envision in the near future, which I will communicate to you in order to seek the necessary consent for your child to participate in all planned activities.

Mr F Ahmed