unity

Enrichment Week
Inclusion Department
Employability Workshop
PricewaterhouseCoopers delivers a dynamic
workshop to Year 10 pupils.
Year 7 Arts Week
This year’s Arts Week was a huge success! The theme was community
and art practitioners came to visit and shared their skills with our pupils
who produced some absolutely brilliant work. Kim Noce ran an animation
workshop, Evren Mustafa ran a sculpture workshop making gliders,
Tamara Froud ran a mosaic workshop and her previous work is already
displayed around the school. Milikyas Ephrame in 7D said ‘I feel honoured
that my work will be displayed in the school and that others will be able to
see it in years to come’.
Pupils made ceramic pots with Chris Bramble and created some
fantastic animation with John Harmer. Pupils worked with three artists
over the week expanding their creative and collaborative skills. A
big thank you to all who took part and look out for this year’s artwork
displayed and around the school.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) operates in 157 countries with more than
195,000 employees delivering assurance, tax and advisory services.
The focus of the workshop was employability and included consideration
of timing, dress, first impressions, making an impact, internet profiling,
interview preparation and even how to shake hands. Fifteen staff
from PwC supported the boys with activities and tasks to improve their
understanding, preparation and readiness for entering the working world.
The morning culminated with each boy being interviewed in a realistic
situation and given feedback on their performance.
The group were visited by Ian Powell, Chairman and Senior Partner of PwC
UK, who gave a motivational talk about his experience of the world of work
and answered questions from the group.
In the future we hope that some of the boys may be able to experience a
work placement at PwC and be offered support with CV writing, among
other things.
Ms T Mustafa, Art Teacher
The workshop was planned by Kate Scarlet Head of the Inclusion
department in collaboration with Gill Montalto of PwC.
DT Department
Year 10 GCSE visit to Made.com
As part of their DT enrichment my Year 10 GCSE pupils visited Made.com, the
hugely successful and entrepreneurial furniture designer and manufacturer,
in its Charing Cross Road showroom. Our boys met two of Made.com’s
designers who presented examples of their work and explained how an idea
is conceived and taken through to the manufacturing process.
We discussed our GCSE projects, storage solutions based on various
design movements from the past 100 years, and where we could draw
influence from to create innovative and original designs. The products that
were on display were photographed, sketched and analysed, and lots of
printed literature was collected by the pupils to include in their research.
Who knows; perhaps we’ll be buying some of our students’ ideas in a high
street shop soon.
Mr M Grant-Hudson, DT Teacher
14 Westminster City School Newsletter Edition 020 September 2015