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And no-one got fired…
NUT members Andrew Dean, Head of Business and Enterprise, and Edward Miller, Head of Work-Related Learning, at The John Fisher School in Purley, south London, organised a Young Apprentice event for year 11 pupils at the school earlier this year.
Three teams presented their ideas to a panel of three judges: David Gold, West Ham football club chairman, Don McCarthy, chair of House of Fraser, and Tom Mercer, founder of Moma Foods.
The teams had ten minutes to pitch and answer questions. The winner was Dip’n’Dunk, a wafer filled with different flavours to dip into tea or coffee to add taste.
Andrew said: “The Young Apprentice series has been a real success, capturing the imagination of the boys and encouraging them to be enterprising.”
Prizes included an executive box, with ten seats, at West Ham, House of Fraser vouchers, books and smoothies.
Life after teaching
After 34 years as a science teacher NUT member Steve Atyeo, aged 58, retired in 2010 to do something different. He and his partner Cristina, an English teacher, travelled to Sierra Leone with the charity Extra Mile to deliver in-service training to teachers there.
Back home in 2011, Cristina returned to teaching and Steve began work as the education programme manager for education charity jole rider. He has been selected as one of the Vodafone World of Difference winners to fund his work with the charity.
• See also page 35.
Stop hearing service cuts
The NUT in Salford is supporting the National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) campaign to stop cuts to the local hearing impaired service. NUT member Jane Heath, manager of the service, said: “Salford Council seemed ill- prepared for the outcry generated by their proposals.”
With NDCS support, a petition secured more than 4,000 signatures, triggering a council review of the cuts.
Keep up with the campaign at
www.ndcs.org.uk/salford And follow the ‘cuts watch’ link at the RNIB website
www.rnib.org.uk/campaign
Finding India
Priesthorpe High School, Garforth Academy and South Leeds Academy in Leeds formed a partnership with the Sahibzada Ajit Singh Academy (SASA) in Ropar Punjab, India.
Last year SASA students visited Leeds and the three Leeds schools had a reciprocal visit during half-term in February. NUT rep at Priesthorpe, Parminder Saimbhi, Aejaz Lehar from Garforth and Saroj Chauhan from South Leeds, took four students from each school on the 12-day trip.
Pupils visited the Golden Temple in Amritsar and Wagah Border to watch the changing of the flags ceremony at the India/Pakistan border. They travelled to Delhi and visited India Gate, the Taj Mahal and Jaipur, where they enjoyed an elephant ride to the ancient Amber Fort.
• Read about Parminder’s role in the Union on page 17.
Breaking the chains
The NUT is supporting the Women Chainmakers’ Festival on 9 June, celebrating a ten-week strike for decent pay by women workers in the Midlands in 1910.
The festival is in Bearmore Park, Cradley Heath, where the chainmakers lived and worked. It will be organised by the Midlands Region of the TUC and Sandwell Council.
Register at
www.tuc.org.uk Search for ‘Chainmakers’.
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