Education for Enterprise (E4E) engages students at all levels and curriculum areas in order to ensure their learning Is relevant and that they are developing as enterprising individuals.
It is not a separate subject, nor is it about setting up a business.
The aim is to teach students, across the entire curriculum and integrating processes directed towards developing skills, competencies, understandings, and attributes which equip them to be innovative.
In doing this, students are able to identify, create, initiate and successfully manage personal, community, business and work opportunities.
Enterprise North Shore is facilitating the E4E programme in North Shore City, providing support and guidance for the four schools and their students taking part in our cluster.
The North Shore Schools and their E4E Projects
Long Bay College – Event Management Systems (EMS)
Established in early 2005, EMS was a creative response to a very real need to manage school event promotion, ticket sales, front-of-house and catering to relieve pressure on the performing arts students and teachers and provide an excellent opportunity for students to manage a very profitable enterprise.
Pinehurst School – Quills
Quills is a retail stationery shop run by senior students, to provide the major stationery needs of pupils and staff. Students researched stationery requirements across the school and took part in negotiations with the supplier. It has enabled profits to be reinvested in other school enterprise initiatives to further strengthen the schools enterprise culture.
Glenfield College – Commercial Vegetable Garden
This is a commercial vegetable garden created on school land to grow produce for sale within the school (to the cafeteria, staff, students and their families) and to the wider community, including primary schools. The project is managed by a team of six Year 10 students. This management team approached the Mathematics and Science departments to have the plot measured and soil tested to ensure its suitability for growing. Technology students provide planter boxes. Each years management team supports and mentors the following year’s, providing a smooth transfer of knowledge and experience.
Takapuna Grammar School – Science and Hospitality
The Science project has aimed at producing an LED spectrophotometer, designed specifically for use in schools, and an accompanying DVD demonstrating the instrument's use. The spectrophotometer will measure the composition of specific substances of interest to students – with the aim of enhancing their learning experience. It is expected to be able to be sold to schools for a fraction of the cost of those currently available. Students are involved in creating a business model for the production, promotion and distribution of this tool.
The Hospitality project enabled the purchase of a coffee maching for a café operating within the Food Technology Department. Run by Year 13 Food Technology students, the café is proving highly successful in giving students hands-on experience of food preparation, customer service and business management.
