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Sheffield High GO4IT!
Cruising on the Thames!
It was a celebration awards ceremony lunch accompanied by a jazz band cruising on the Thames for the Sheffield High contingency at the Go4it awards. The four students Rose Paxman aged 17 from Bents Green, Elizabeth Heyes aged 15 from Wortley, Jennifer Utting aged 14 from Stocksbridge and Victoria Stasi aged 13 from Harthill accompanied by headmistress Valerie Dunsford were thrilled to go to London to have lunch on board the Symphony and be presented with the Oscar style award!
Sheffield High was one of only fourteen innovative UK schools who were awarded Go4it status by HTI (Heads, Teachers and Industry) recently as the education charity celebrated the second year of its pioneering national innovation and employability kite mark for schools.
The charity HTI (Heads, Teachers and Industry) works to bring education and business closer together and to improve the employability of school leavers. Its national schools campaign, Go4it, challenges the ‘cotton wool kid’ culture and is the first and only national award to identify schools that demonstrate a can-do ethos.
Go4it schools must demonstrate a culture of creativity, innovation, positive risk-taking, a ‘can do’ attitude and, above all, a real adventure for learning. They must dare to do things differently and by doing so improve pupils’ understanding of enterprise and employment. This means developing employable attitudes and behaviour as well as skills. Go4it provides a counterweight to overly bureaucratic and risk averse education cultures and believes that teaching children to experience and manage risk is not only key to personal (and enterprising) development but will also make them safer.
Go4it has had a huge response since it was launched by government minister Digby Jones (former HTI president). 700 schools are on the waiting list, 100 registered applicants are awaiting assessment and 28 schools have already achieved the Go4it kite mark.
As HTI CEO Anne Evans says: ‘Every artist takes a risk when pushing the boundaries of creativity. So too does every sports person in physical activities. Life requires every one to take risks and if we can help children to do that safely we’ll have better risk-educated young adults entering the work force and everyone will benefit. It won’t be long before employers are on the lookout of children leaving a Go4it school.’
To read a copy of the assessor’s case study for the School, please click here (79 KB Word file)