EDUCATION-BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS Drink to success
Last year, 18 employers were honoured in the Business Awards in recognition of the work they do with schools. SecEd, as a media partner in the awards, is profiling the work of these companies and this week it is the turn of Britvic and the British Soft Drinks Association who have joined forces to support teacher development
industry entails and they kind of skills they will need. The project is part of an ongoing partnership
between Britvic Soft Drinks and the British Soft Drinks Association (BSDA) which has earned them the top prize in the Enterprise and Innovation category of the Business Awards 2010, run by the Institute for Education Business Excellence (IEBE). The BSDA represents 90 per cent of the UK soft
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drinks industry and has provided teaching resources to schools for many years through its Liquids Mean Life programme. In 2008, the BSDA worked with education partners
Magenta Project Management to create the Liquids Mean Life Enterprise Challenge, a resource pack available free-of-charge to schools in the UK which aims to show students the behind the scenes processes of the industry and to get them thinking about what skills they may need to work in the sector. The pack supports collapsed timetable days or half-term programmes of study related to enterprise and business education among other subjects. Soon after, the BSDA and Magenta joined forces
with Britvic to develop a professional development programme for teachers. A Britvic Learning Zone website has also been launched. In March 2010, Britvic launched a programme of
free teacher development days in the Britvic Learning Zone at its east London factory. The events focus on the BSDA Liquids Mean Life Enterprise Challenge resource pack and include an introduction to the Learning Zone website and a tour of the factory. The programme content was developed through
a series of pilot days at Britvic factories in Rugby, Norwich and Beckton, a showcase event for Education Business Partnership representatives in the South East and a trial day for year 10 pupils. Last year, a total of six briefing days saw 26 PGCE students and 61 teachers from 54 schools across the East and South East of England attend, equating to 435 teacher training hours. Britvic is now developing similar facilities
at its Leeds and Norwich sites, with professional development activities taking place at all three sites from next term. The training days have allowed teachers to take on
the BSDA Enterprise Challenge with confidence and using real-life examples of soft drink production. Ian Williams, work-related learning co-ordinator at
Thomas Tallis School in London, said that the training had helped the school to implement the Enterprise Challenge with A2 business studies students and at GCSE level as well. He said: “The Learning Zone is very useful. The
AST YEAR, soft drinks company Britvic delivered more than 430 hours of teacher training at its Learning Zone based within its east London factory. This work has supported teachers who are keen to show their students just what working in this
Getting behind the scenes: Teachers durnig one of the professional development workshops at Britvic’s Learning
students will be creating a new drink, a label and an advert – we have about 220 students working on this.” Other schools have used the training and resources
Zone in east London (main image) and a graphic from the Liquids Mean Life schools pack (inset) Activities have included coaching on enterprise
to develop “Enterprise Challenge days” for students and have also embedded them into other lessons. Furthermore, to date several events have been held
for pupils, including one early pilot at St Bede’s School in Cambridge and conference days for 120 pupils from 11 schools in Hertfordshire and 90 pupils from schools in Sutton. The teacher training at the east London factory
site has seen numerous members of factory staff get involved in leading tours, taking Q&A sessions, and volunteering to help lead the training. The programme was nominated for the award by
partners Magenta Project Management, who said in the nomination: “By employing their combined resources to provide robust teaching materials and inform current and future teachers, BSDA and Britvic hope to establish the soft drinks industry as an exciting vehicle for work- related learning, to build teachers’ confidence and competence delivering work-related learning, and to attract well informed young people to the industry in the future.” Jane Samuels, project and operations manager from
category sponsors Edge, praised BSDA and Britvic for their long-term commitment to education partnerships. She said: “This is an excellent example of a
trade association and a major corporate working in partnership with local education business partnership organisations across the country to provide valuable resources and support for teachers. “Particularly impressive is the long-term
commitment to education demonstrated by Britvic’s Learning Zone provision at its Beckton site and the plans to expand this provision to two other sites in Leeds and Norwich. The curriculum materials, industry visits and competition programmes are all highly praised by teachers and students who have benefited from them. The current plans to develop links with PGCE students at universities is especially innovative and a great example of maximising the potential of a programme from every angle.” The category also saw two runners-up for the award
– Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. Merrill Lynch was honoured for its work to develop
an enterprise skills development programme for young people in Tower Hamlets, east London. The scheme for the past six years has supported
three secondary schools in the borough, with all year 8 students spending four years in a range of initiatives supported by staff and funds from the bank – at any one time, 2,500 students are in the programme.
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projects run both at the bank and in the schools, presenting classes on enterprise-related activities, supporting summer business schools, and also a public speaking competition. Ms Samuels said: “This is an excellent long-term partnership between a major financial institution and
education. I was impressed with a number of elements: the high number of students benefiting from this initiative, the provision of an accredited qualification, the introduction of an Alumni programme, the planned expansion in to primary schools, and, probably most important of all, the commitment to a long-term programme.” Meanwhile, Morgan Stanley was praised for its
support for schools local to its offices on the Isle of Dogs in east London. Three primary schools have benefited from their support for the past seven years. The company has provided 36 volunteers – one
for each class at the schools – to facilitate a Young Enterprise Primary Programme for 1,100 pupils. Ms Samuel said: “This is a very good example of a sustained commitment – over seven years – from a business to a long-standing education business programme, now being applied to primary schools. The level of involvement from employees is impressive, as is the number of students who benefit.”
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Further information Britvic
• For professional
• Liquids Mean Life:
www.liquidsmeanlife.org.uk • The
www.britviclearningzone.com information
Learning on
development Zone the
enquiries@magentaonline.co.uk
• For the IEBE Business Awards, including the 2010 winners in full:
www.iebe.org.uk
IEBE Business Award details
Category: Enterprise and Innovation (Large companies) – sponsored by Edge Winner: Britvic Soft Drinks and the British Soft Drinks Association Runner-up: Bank of America – Merrill Lynch Runner-up: Morgan Stanley
A new curriculum for 11-14 year-olds
programme, website:
BSDA/Britvic email
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