Envision
Corporate Session | Competency Reference
On Monday 27th April 2015, a number of our year 12 students, who participate in the ENVISION programme, attended a Competency Reference session lead by Tim Knappett and Charles Lea from ENVISION. The session was centred round the efforts of the volunteering staff from Interserve, who continue to work with the school to help develop our students’ personal skills.
Interserve is one of the world’s foremost support services and construction companies. They are listed in the FTSE 250 index and have gross revenues of £3.3 billion and a workforce of circa 80,000 people worldwide
As part of the corporate session, which took place in our new £1.6 million Sixth Form Centre, the coaches from Interserve circulated round the teams and took turns sharing their personal success stories; as well as the best advice they were given to help overcome their challenges. The next phase of the session involved the Interserve coaches acting as Personal Skills Advisors, during which they engaged the students in a conversation about the work they did in order to deliver their projects.
The information gathered from each student will then be used to write a Personal Competency Reference that will serve to showcase the skills developed whilst carrying out their projects. This will then be presented to the students in the form of a Competency Reference Certificate, which they can use when applying for jobs and University places in the future.
