ESIP Apprentice Day - Saturday 21st June 2014

On a gloriously sunny Saturday morning Year Ten met the business delegates at Forest School for breakfast.

The first ESIP Apprentice day opened with Eimen giving a short speech on how ESIP had helped develop her confidence, especially around public speaking and how it had changed her for the better. We showed our delegates clips from the BBC Apprentice so as to show them and the students how not to do it.

Off went the delegates with their first interviewee for a 30 minute grilling on their big audacious goals and how they plan to reach them. After a short break the students underwent a second interview with a different interviewer. It was certainly a challenging experience.

We then networked over coffee, juice and pastries before the support groups. We carefully matched the business delegates and students in evenly sized groups for a detailed discussion on interviews, pitching and how you fulfil your passions. We were able to share wisdom from a wide variety of jobs and experiences and test out some ideas and create plans for the future.

After lunch it was Dragons Den. Each of the eight students made an individual pitch for support of their big audacious goal to a table of eight dragons, a daunting task for any of us. A number of them won support for their ideas and plans.

The day ended with the girls surprising Simon into making the final pitch - an impassioned plea for building a better world one child at a time with a specific request for support to each of the Dragons. Time will tell who invests but at the end of the day at least none of us got fired!

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