Enterprise Matters Issue 2

Leaders in enterprise and financial education

Term 4 2011

We interview PrEP school principal Gary Tenbeth BP stocks YES company products New money and finance teaching resource Teachers develop business studies resources and assessment for YES www.yetrust.co.nz

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Talking about enterprise ¯¯ CEO Terry Shubkin

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Headline News ¯¯ Teachers develop business studies resources and assessments for YES ¯¯ BP stocks YES products & More

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Student Success

Inspiring, Educating Transforming students through enterprise

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Interview ¯¯ We interview PrEP school principal Gary Tenbeth

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Programme News ¯¯ PrEP ¯¯ Enterprise Studies ¯¯ Young Enterprise Scheme ¯¯ Financial Education ¯¯ International Programmes

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Connecting business with schools ¯¯ DairyNZ Challenge

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TALKINGABOUT ENTERPRISE CEO Terry Shubkin

Enterprise Matters is a publication of the Young Enterprise Trust Charities Commission Registration Number: CC21103 Editorial Content Paul Newsom Contact Paul on 04 570 3984 or paul.newsom@yetrust.co.nz Address Young Enterprise Trust, First Floor, 66-70 Bloomfield Terrace, PO Box 31545, Lower Hutt 5010, NZ

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Cover picture: PrEP school principal Gary Tenbeth (Credit: Otago Daily Times/Otago Images)

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t was wonderful seeing New Zealand transformed during the Rugby World Cup and so many people getting behind not just the All Blacks, but behind all the teams involved. During this time, the link between business and rugby was really highlighted. Enterprising skills were put to the test from the IRB who runs the Rugby World Cup, to the NZRU who is responsible for the All Blacks, to the hundreds of other businesses that were engaged as suppliers, to the thousands of ancillary businesses that marketed their products and services to the influx of tourists.

Being enterprising is not something that you do in isolation. It is a skill that can transform your passion from a hobby to a job, career or business. Just look at all the people who have developed a business around our national pastime of rugby.

This is a lesson we hope our students will learn through real life experiences. In fact, rather than viewing that business can be linked with your passion, we say that it should be linked with something that you are passionate about.

We recently have started interviewing YES Alumni and this message has come through from several people. One such person is YES Alumnus Seeby Woodhouse who started Orcon at the age of 19 and went on to sell the company for $25M. One of his tips for budding entrepreneurs is to ask yourself “Am I passionate about what I am doing?” His experience has shown him that when he’s started a business that he wasn’t passionate about, it didn’t succeed. Whereas those businesses he

started that were based on a passion have always succeeded.

It’s been a rewarding time hearing from YES Alumni who have connected with us to share their YES story and the lessons they learned which have helped them in their career. TV3 reporter Mike McRoberts spoke about the importance of listening to your customer.

Commonwealth gold medal athlete Alison Shanks said the skills she learned have helped her when working with her team of sponsors and in her role of ambassador for the NZ Olympic Committee helping to promote the London 2012 Games.

The stories go on from there and each is interesting and inspirational in their own right. If you haven’t already been there, go onto www.yesalumni.co.nz to view these stories and more. As we go into the end of the year, I look at what today’s students are accomplishing and it gives me great hope that the future of New Zealand is in good hands. The last stretch of the year is the most fun as we see the entries for the national competitions for PrEP, BP Community Enterprise, Enterprise Studies and the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme. We often say that our role is to inspire today’s students but when you see how talented and enterprising these young people are, it’s hard not to be inspired yourself.

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HeadlineNews International Business Experience in Bangkok for YES students ■ The recent Enterprise in

BP stocks YES company products ■ The Rugby World Cup has been a winner for a YES team at Mt Aspiring College with their BACKBLACK roll-on face paint being stocked nationwide at 45 BP retail outlets. The strong branding, packaging and price point attracted the sales team at BP head office and sales have been very strong.

Other YES products placed in a variety of BP outlets are recycled tyre Frisbees from Garin College in Nelson, earthquake badges from Rangi Ruru Girls School in Canterbury, and Chapricots, a chocolate dipped apricot product, from Kaikoura High School. Watch out too for your free disposable raincoat in a cute rugby ball when you get a carwash at your local BP outlet. The order BP placed with the team from Auckland Seventh Day Adventist High School is one of the largest ever seen for a YES company.

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Action event resulted in six YES students travelling to Bangkok to compete in an international business competition. Team NZ spent six days with representative enterprise teams from other countries in the Asia Pacific region. The competition scenario was to develop a market entry strategy for a tourism service to Guam – a real challenge as many of the students had not dealt with a service business before and had little knowledge of Guam. Our three NZ teams rose to the occasion with ideas of a party resort for wealthy American college students, an extreme sports experience and an alternative tourism transport service to deal with the limited options available for current tourists.

The New Zealand students took full advantage of the opportunity to extend their understanding of world markets, producing excellent business plans, presentations and advertisements for their pitch.

Each student also took the time to learn about the different cultures represented at the competition – Singapore, Korea, Thailand, Philippines, Japan, China, Hong Kong and Malaysia – and were acknowledged by the organizers as the very best ambassadors of the competing countries, ensuring that the invitation will be extended to another group of NZ Yes students in 2012. Well done and thanks.

What’s happening to your coffee grinds? ■ Coffee and soap may seem to have little in common but for a YES team from Auckland’s Macleans College, this is proving to be a winning combination. Using coffee grounds that would normally be discarded, the team is recycling these into an environmentally friendly, all natural and delightful soap with recycled packaging. The team’s communication director has been busy actively promoting the product to media and the marketplace and this has paid off in sales and a heightened profile for the team. Their product and company story were recently recognised by Fairtrade Australia & New Zealand, proving that applying innovation and energy to your marketing and communications can really build profile for a new and unknown business. To purchase PLUS soap contact the team online at http://www.plusenterprise.co.nr/ and you can read the Fairtrade ANZ story http://www.fta.org.au/news/720

Business studies teachers visit Shanghai ■ During the last week of Term Two, Jude Maurice of Tauranga Girls College was one of eleven business studies teachers who attended an education forum in Shanghai. This opportunity was hosted by Asia:NZ. We asked Jude to report on how she is using this experience with the enterprise programmes at TGC.

Teachers develop business studies resources and assessments for YES ■ Business enterprise teachers have created assessments and teaching resources to support the delivery of selected level 3 business studies Achievement Standards.

These will be available for the 2012 Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme.

These resources will provide YES teachers with two alternative assessment pathways that can be delivered through YES. The YE Certificate remains as an accredited NZQA qualification and provides an alternative qualification pathway and/or backup credit bank for the NCEA if required. The assessments for internal Achievement Standards 3.4 (marketing plan) and 3.6 (carry out a business), provide a YES pathway for students wishing to utilise business studies as an approved subject toward the revised common university entrance standard.

The assessments will add to the free teaching resources provided to YES teachers. To register your school for the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme for 2012 email support@yetrust.co.nz Registration of interest will ensure you are kept up to date with developments and information for the 2012 teaching year.

Formal enrolment in the programme is made in term one.

‘The purpose of the forum was to deepen our knowledge and understanding of Shanghai and China so in our teaching we can better prepare young New Zealanders for a future which includes Asia.

Our main focus while in Shanghai was to visit established New Zealand businesses: Zespri, Comvita, Fonterra, Air New Zealand, ANZ bank, NZ Trade and Enterprise and Redfern Associates.

There are 1500 New Zealand businesses operating in China. Other places of interest were Yangshan Deep Water, Shang DE Experimental School, Little Swan and the Urban Planning Museum.

China now ranks as the second most important trading partner for New Zealand after Australia and is fast heading to be Number 1. We must prepare our students, make them more international business savvy and help them realise that Asia is so important to

our economy. We must communicate, collaborate and interact competently with people across cultural, geographic and language boundaries. Asia is and will be of increasing significance to New Zealanders, and as educators, we need to prepare our students to become more ‘Asia Aware’.

We learnt that some of China’s main goals are: • Sustainability • China’s market share • Maximise the Free Trade Agreement • Improving inter-relationships • Joint ventures All of the above can be related back to our teaching and involvement with Young Enterprise teams.

In business studies and economics I am keen for business staff to convey to their students the importance of understanding trade, exports and imports and the relevance of Free Trade Agreements.

Here at TGC we are introducing business enterprise studies at Year 9 next year.

One of the topics to be covered is Asia Awareness. Within this topic we plan to cover how exploration and innovation create opportunities and challenges for people, places and environments. This will lead into Year 10 and follow through into Year 11 – 13 business studies.’

BusinessNZ renew sponsorship ■ The Young Enterprise Trust are delighted

Tickets on sale for the YES National Awards Gala Dinner ■

to announce that BusinessNZ, in association with EMA Northern, Employers’ Otago Southland and Canterbury Employers’ Chamber of Commerce, has renewed its sponsorship of the BusinessNZ Challenge for 2012. Activity over the past few weeks to register for next year’s programme has been intense and we are looking forward to working with the students at the many schools that will be participating.

It’s almost that time of year where we can celebrate the best of the best from the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme.

Come along and support your favourite YES team during the day on December 1 at the National Competition, and stay on to enjoy the evening celebration at the Gala Dinner.

You can purchase your tickets online. ■

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International Trade Challenge in Bangkok 1 & 2. Focussed - Sam and Jaden, Ben and Teyha 3.

Ben, Sam and Jake with their fellow international competitors

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Enterprising Music YES team Speranza from Waikato Diocesan School for Girls in Hamilton

Fairfax Media New Zealand Business Hall of Fame A Meaty message for tomorrow’s world 1. John Carlo Favier, of Kelston Boys High School with Anne and David Norman.

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stablished in 1994 by the Young Enterprise Trust, the Fairfax Media New Zealand Business Hall of Fame recognises and celebrates individuals who, through enterprise, have made a significant contribution to the economic and social development of New Zealand. The event also serves to inspire the next generation of laureates – some of whom will be graduates of the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme. Six YES students were enterprise ambassadors for the evening, each escorting one Laureate.

This is an extract from a speech by Benjamin Reynolds, a Year 13 student from Westlake Boys High School in Auckland who spoke on behalf of students participating in the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) at this year’s Fairfax Media Business Hall of Fame awards. Ben is the communications director of his YES company, Liquida, which sends a daily text encouraging customers to lose weight and stay active. “………What of the workforce of 10, 20 and 30 years’ time? What will their success stories be? I’ve grown up on a small farm and I understand my former pet lambs will one day become lamb chops- all a part of the resource conversion process. Resources are there – commercialise them. This is the mind-set of the past 150 years of New Zealand business.

But there simply isn’t enough farmland to gift to the nation 100 hectares each on

which to build a business. Similarly, there are only so many retail chains an economy the size of New Zealand’s can handle. The future of my generation is in the conversion of the virtual lamb chop’s, the online dairy farms and the host-server forests into the wealth to support our nation. To exercise my point, one need only look at Sam Morgan’s Trade Me, Peter Jackson’s blockbusters, and Rod Drury’s Xero – all examples of New Zealanders capitalising on our ability to exercise the brain and create content physically reduced to not much more than lines of code. Another way of looking at it; the world will always need to eat, but the minds will be hungrier than the mouths, New Zealand is in a prime position to capitalise on the feeding of both the mouths and the minds of the world. Our resource-rich, well-managed, non-subsidised dairy and sheep industries are some of the world’s most robust. The sustainability of these industries is all but guaranteed, given New Zealanders are perpetually innovating and averse to sitting on their laurels. With our youth we can look to earn from the minds of the world.

Programmes such as the Lion Foundation

Young Enterprise Scheme, coupled with a movement away from the “chalk ‘n’ talk” teaching method ensure the workforce of tomorrow is more prepared than ever for the Darwinistic nature of business. So we inherit the firms of the past century, their successes and their structures, based on resource conversion. We also inherit, along with that, global warming, recession and the growing pension bill.

And, as youth, it would naïve to think business will be wholly different for us. I still expect my generation is about to outdo expectations. As New Zealand’s modelcum-philosopher once said: “It won’t happen overnight, but it will happen.”

We have the incentives and the lessons necessary to evolve to a new business model for New Zealand, based on the idea of feeding the minds as well as the mouths. ……..To conclude, I ask the room to take on board the messages you’ve heard tonight from six of New Zealand’s greatest success stories true men and women of their era. At the same time, have faith in my generation to keep on with the delivery of New Zealand’s prime quality virtual sausages and innovative business sense.”

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INTERVIEW We interview Primary Principal Gary Tenbeth

Photo Credit: Otago Daily Times/Otago Images

The Primary Enterprise Programme (PrEP) was introduced into New Zealand back in the late 90’s. College Street Primary School in Dunedin was one of the ‘early adopters’, and has been going strong ever since. We caught up with Principal Gary Tenbeth to find out how they have run such a successful programme and what difference it makes for the students.

College Street Principal Gary Tenbeth.

EM: What got you started with PrEP Gary?

GT: Upon my arrival late in 1999 the concept of PrEP was firmly established within the culture and organisation of the school. I was wary of the concept but open to considering what positive outcomes the programme produced for children. Prior to arriving at College Street, I had two years working in a variety of schools as an assessment facilitator. Thus I had a rather privileged oversight of achievement levels across a range of schools.

EM: How do you organise PrEP in the school?

GT: There have been many different ways of organising PrEP over the years. What has been consistent is that the programme is for the whole school and that ventures consist www.yetrust.co.nz

of a cross range of Yr 1-3s, and Yr 4s to 6s and the Yr 0s have their own Venture - they make a movie!

Currently the Yr 0-3s operate the programme once per term for two weeks in the afternoons. The Yr 4-6s operate the programme from 11.00am, for the remainder of the day, for one week per term.

The juniors form new groups and ventures each term, and the seniors stay in the same groups all year. Both programmes conclude with a whole school Market Day. EM: What parts of the curriculum do you include in PrEP? GT: It is totally cross curriculum. Clearly there is a heavy emphasis on literacy and numeracy skills. Technology is a main focus, and social sciences, arts and drama are always prominent.

EM: What are the top three things that students get out of PrEP? GT: When I started at the school, my initial observation of the decile 3 College Street children was what appeared to be the high levels of oratory skills. I did wonder, acknowledging how PrEP operated, if this was an outcome of the PrEP programme.

For many years we struggled with finding credible evidence to suggest we were making a difference. Then a university researcher followed a cohort of children through PrEP for four years and recorded their impressions and learnings. The outcomes were stunning. His work drove us into looking at the Key Competencies as a vehicle for ‘assessing’ the participation and outcomes of children.

For a majority of our children, the survey told us that PrEP is their best

EM: What feedback do you get from parents about the programme?

GT: Parents appear to be very supportive as evident through attendance at Market Days and feedback through surveys. It is a selling point of the school - the majority of new parents are captured with my description of the programme when I reference the evidence of the research.

EM: Do the teachers enjoy it?

GT: It is challenging from the point of view of empowering the student leadership rather than the teacher taking over. It is the best environment for practising facilitation of learning. It is chaotic - for teachers who want order and compliance, it can be challenging, and it is tiring. However, it is very common, following a Market Day, to hear positive comments of review, especially relating to how specific children individually or in groups ‘performed’. Teachers, at this time tend to be enthusiastic.

EM: Do teachers take it in their stride, or is it demanding on their time?

GT: It is demanding on their and my time, but there is a common belief that this is another learning opportunity really suited for specific learners who might not excel in the traditional classroom. The variety of learning environments suits the variety of learning needs.

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time at school. The only thing that might challenge that comment is feedback about the annual outdoor education programmes.My thinking in answering this question includes problem solving, resiliency in moving on from failure and social competencies.

A university researcher followed a cohort of children through PrEP for four years and recorded their impressions and learnings. The outcomes were stunning.

EM: How do you make it easy for the teachers to run PrEP successfully?

GT: Our review systems are well embedded into the organisation culture.

Teachers know that nothing is locked in place and that feedback will have an impact on how the next term’s PrEP is structured. Although students have three choices of which PrEP venture they would like to join, the student composition of those ventures is done with care.

Planning of the PrEP block is done through the two school’s syndicates. i.e. no teachers are left to their own devices.

EM: Having run it for so many years, how do you keep PrEP fresh and vibrant?

GT: This is a vital part of the continuation of any concept - especially one such as PrEP, which could easily be seen as an interruption to ‘real’ learning.

I recommend a robust and credible review scheme which has clear evidence of impact on future PrEP delivery.

Teachers need to know that they can modify the delivery of the programme.

EM: Any advice for a school considering PrEP for 2012?

GT: Use a change management plan.

It is not something that you can do successfully unplanned. Be clear as to what is the purpose you want to achieve.

Ensure that you target and empower your teacher believers. Allow lots of opportunity for review - teacher and student feedback. Use your newsletters to share the positive outcomes of PrEP - including student and adult comments.

An effective PR programme will bring your parents on board. Like teachers, ensure that parents, too, have the opportunity to seek clarification and give feedback.

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PrEP open afternoon at Peachgrove Intermediate ■ Last term Peachgrove Intermediate in Hamilton hosted a PrEP open afternoon for teachers of neighbouring schools to see students participating in the PrEP programme, and to share ideas and experiences with each other.

Peachgrove teacher Haylee Webber had this to say about PrEP: ‘Team Karioi has found the PrEP programme to be a highly engaging and interactive programme for our Year 7 & 8 students. The reason why we are so keen to have this included in our Pathway is because it covers all aspects of the Key Competencies, students have ownership of the learning throughout the programme as well as being closely aligned to our Curriculum long term plans and our school values. Our students get a real sense of the “REAL WORLD” and what it takes to run and own a business should it be in their future careers. No other programme includes ALL aspects of the curriculum e.g. maths, literacy, art, problem solving, it’s a smorgasbord of learning at its highest! This is our second year of PrEP and there is always room for improvement. The ideas that new

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students come up with is amazing and insightful. PrEP encourages higher order thinking, co-operation, participation, collaboration and partnership at its highest element. We are proud to be part of the

PrEP vision for future entrepreneurs. ‘ If you are interested in attending a PrEP open event at a Primary School near you, then please contact Sharron at sharron.buer@yetrust.co.nz

studies. He says “the introduction of business studies is a unique opportunity to offer students a hands on enterprise experience, yet academic business course, as a University approved subject. This is an excellent development.”

Business studies Achievement Standards 2.6 and 3.6 (each carrying nine credits) require students to carry out a business activity. The authentic business experience is the key element of these standards.

Takapuna Grammar School introduced business studies from its inception and will introduce a level 3 business studies course in 2012. Videler says “our objective is to offer students a ‘real’ business experience.

In this respect we have offered the Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) for many years, and are currently investigating

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Excitement builds with BP competitions ■ The 2011 BP Community enterprise competition closed at the end of last term with more than 40 schools entering. We are looking forward to some great community projects being undertaken around the country. BP gives $8000 each year to fund up to 10 projects.

This year the BP Innovation Challenge is centered on the BP theme of ‘Be Road Happy’ and many students are being very creative and innovative in their thinking.

If BP likes the product and they think it is feasible, they would like to commercialise it and stock it in their petrol stations around the country. The challenge is aligned to the Achievement Standard 90842 and the entries close on Monday 21 November. For more information visit www.yetrust.co.nz/ES/BPCEP.html or contact us on support@yetrust.co.nz

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Young Enterprise Scheme: Enterprise Gains Academic Value ■ NZQA have confirmed that business studies will be on the list of approved subjects for university entrance in 2012.

This will apply for those attending University from 2013 onwards.

This change reflects the recent development of Achievements Standards for business studies by the Ministry of Education, with Level 1 and 2 Achievement Standards already available, and Level 3 Achievement Standards available in 2012.

Schools can now timetable business studies as a standalone or integrated subject without constraining students’ subject choices for academic pathways.

Leon Videler (Centre for Business & Enterprise at Takapuna Grammar School) expects to see a considerable growth in the number of students choosing business related subjects, and in particular, business

incorporating YES into our new Level 3 Business Studies Course in 2012.’

‘With the business experience being the key aspect, Achievement Standards are, and will be, derived from this to ensure students are given every opportunity to experience business and develop life skills such as self management, motivation, the will to succeed and determination.”

TGS have created partnerships with local businesses and industries to allow students at Level 1, 2 and 3 to relate business theory to business practice. The access to people and facilities that these businesses give to the students shows that, when asked, business is supportive of the developments within the business studies curriculum. Schools are encouraged to connect with the businesses in their local community and provide the same experience for their business students. Videler adds “this is an excellent development as it gives credibility to the subject being taught in schools, and creates a connection between secondary school and tertiary institutions. In addition, it requires students to think about career options, and will help parents too who are helping their children with subject choices and career plans.’

‘Business studies has the potential to develop into the largest subject within the Business and Enterprise Department, and be the catalyst to grow the department further.” www.yetrust.co.nz

Financial New Money and Finance Teaching Resource ■ Young Enterprise Trust has received funding from the Citi Foundation to develop a Money and Finance course for year 12. It will be structured around four of the Level 2 Personal Financial Management (PFM) Unit Standards. These are:

24704: Demonstrate knowledge of banking products and services for personal financial management 24707: Set a personal financial goal and plan its implementation 24710: Produce a balanced budget for a family or household 24695: Demonstrate knowledge of income, taxation and other deductions for personal financial management The facilitator’s guide, which will be available free on-line, will link the four standards together into a coherent course of about 70 hours, or 1 semester.

The Year 12 course follows on from the new Year 11 Money and Finance teaching resource, also funded by the Citi Foundation. The Year 11 resource has the same structure with a free facilitator’s

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Fiji Financial Education Curriculum Development ■ Young Enterprise Trust is continuing its work in Fiji, assisting teachers with the integration and strengthening of financial education within the school curriculum. Financial Education resources for class levels three and four in the Primary sector,

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Young Enterprise Trust makes this easy for you to teach.

We provide teaching and learning packages, including a workbook and assessment

guide surrounding three Level 1 PFM Unit Standards. This course takes about 40 hours to complete.

The year 11 course is being trialled in 30 schools around the country during 2012.

If you wish to join this programme, or be part of the future Year 12 course trial, then please contact Rochelle at rochelle. collinson@yetrust.co.nz.

New resources to use with Skint to Mint game ■ A new resource package enables you to deliver Personal Financial management Unit Standard

25247 (level 3, 3 credits). The package is part of a sequence of three Personal Financial Management standards which include wealth creation, risk, return and diversification. Resource packages for other two standards, 25242 and 25246 (level 2), are also available.

This sequence of standards can be used in conjunction with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s game ‘Skint to Mint’. The packages are now available at $55.00 each and the order form can be downloaded from the ‘order resources’ page at www.yetrust.co.nz

and Form Four in the secondary school have been well received by the Ministry of Education and Regional Financial Champion Teachers, who are piloting the resources in their schools.

Very successful professional development (PD) workshops have been held throughout the year. The focus of the PD has been the integration of financial education mainly into the commercial studies curriculum at secondary level, and

into the mathematics, english and social studies curriculums at primary level.

Regional champion teachers are the pioneer teachers who, together with the Divisional Offices, will be actively involved in facilitating training and financial education professional development in their school districts.

Further PD is scheduled for November, for integration at class levels five and six, and further strengthening at Form Four. ■

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Business studies is on the approved subject list for University Entrance from 2012.

Level 3 business studies Achievement Standards are due for release for 2012.

The Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme is the ideal vehicle to deliver selected business studies Achievement Standards.

The Young Enterprise Certificate is also available as an assessment and accredited by NZQA for 24 credits equivalents, NCEA Level 3.

The latest link to information from NZQA regarding the business studies achievement standards, the new common entrance standard for Universities and the alignment of standards is below. This is a one stop communication that may be useful for curriculum planning. http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/about-us/publications/newslettersand-circulars/ncea-update/issue-1/

We can help you For advice on business course structures and assessment please email support@yetrust.co.nz with YES course suggestions in the subject line.

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Connecting Businesswith Schools The 2011 DairyNZ Get Ahead Challenge The 2011 DairyNZ Get Ahead Challenge has got off to a great start will over 200 teams already registered. The DairyNZ Get Ahead Challenge aims to raise awareness of the agricultural sector of the economy with Year 10 students who are in the process of making decisions about study options for the future.

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he DairyNZ Get Ahead Challenge asks students to create a marketing plan and come up with a promotional activity that will promote the diversity of careers in agriculture as exciting and challenging vocational choices. The teachers who registered to do the programme

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attended the training around the country and were enthusiastic about offering their Year 10s a creative outlet in term four.

They were provided with free resources for the programme.

This challenge is an initiative of DairyNZ in conjunction with NZ Young Farmers and NZ Beef and Lamb.

the initial response from the teachers who attended the workshops in August. I attended three of the workshops, in Wellington, Auckland and Hamilton and was impressed with the enthusiasm of the teachers for the Challenge and with the quality of the presentations by YE Trust.

In September I visited Year 10 classes at Hillcrest High School and Takapuna Grammar School to talk to students about the diverse career opportunities in agriculture.

Their responses were very positive.

We are looking forward to receiving the entries from schools all over New Zealand.

We expect that the quality of the plans submitted will be high and are excited about the marketing possibilities that will

Bill Barwood, Industry Education Facilitator with DairyNZ, has participated in some of the Teacher PD sessions held around the country and has liked what he has seen: “We are certainly encouraged by

be available to DairyNZ once the judging process is completed late November.

It has been a pleasure to work and collaborate with the staff of YE Trust whose professionalism and dedication is appreciated by DairyNZ.” ■

Book Review YES – one friend is all you need Author: Deborah Burnside Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers Available: $32.95 from www.whitcoulls.co.nz

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n amongst a truthful book exploring the true values of the Young Enterprise Scheme is a fantastic novel about a boy with autism, whose values and beliefs are reassessed through participating in the Scheme. A well written and eventful book, Deborah Burnside has captured

the essence of what it is like to be autistic, and, communicated through a teenage romance, how YES has helped him learn about himself and others around him – which is one of the aims of the Scheme.

Review by Jack Goldingham Newsom, Yr 9, Scots College.

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