LIVE! Student Events DisneylandÂŽ Paris
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Hello! Welcome to our student events brochure. European Study Tours have been providing top quality and inspiring educational events for KS4 and KS5 learners for more than three decades. Why choose our LIVE! Student Events? An immersive learning experience which combines a conference with LIVE! speaker presentations, student workbook and team park challenges to bring your subject into the real world in a fun and practical way. We take care of everything! We provide the educational content and coordinate all of the travel arrangements for you. We are on-site at Disneyland® Paris to ensure you have all the support you need 24/7. High calibre LIVE Speakers! Our speakers are influential industry professionals who deliver engaging presentations in person on key topics designed to motivate and inspire your learners. Improved Exam Preparation and Attainment Each event is carefully tailored to the subject area, providing relevant material for case study work and exams Advice on future career opportunities Opportunity to interact with industry professionals and ask questions about future study opportunities and careers within their industry. Curriculum linked for real educational value Unique insight from experts showcasing their work and achievements, linking curriculum topics to the real world. The aim is to meet core learning objectives and fully engage learners with their subject.
Disneyland® Paris Disneyland® Paris is an ideal location where students can experience independence in a secure and fun environment. Confidence and experience building High quality residential experiences can transform the learning experience of young people, raising aspirations within school and beyond. Student Workbook An interactive student workbook is provided prior to the event with background information on the speakers as well as challenges to complete in the Parks. Certificate of Attendance Students each receive a certificate of attendance. They can include this in their National Record of Achievement folder to demonstrate their skills and strengths and add to their portfolio of school experiences.
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Monday 2nd March 2020 Business Live! Computing Live! Media Live! Monday 9th March 2020 Science Live! Maths Live! Psychology Live! With some events held on the same day you can combine your trip with other subject areas to increase your group size to maximise value and appeal
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BUSINESS LIVE! is an immersive event designed to bring the curriculum to life and show your students the subject in action Learners get the opportunity to come face to face with speakers from high profile companies who provide relevant real-life experiences and case studies for exams. The three quality speakers cover the fundamentals of the Business Studies curriculum at KS4 and KS5, which your students can then take out into the Disneyland® Parks and apply in a practical and fun way. The whole experience perfectly complements classroom learning.
Bringing Business Studies to life for your learners
2019 Speakers: We carefully select speakers who are experts in their field to deliver their first hand industry experience. The feedback we receive for the calibre and relevance of our speakers is consistently high.
Rose Mistelske
Joe McEwan
Business Live! Topics covered over the course of your stay
Marketing Performance and Strategies
• Understanding markets and customers, technology, digital marketing, the use of social media, the value of market research. • Segmentation, targeting, niche and mass marketing. • Marketing mix – the value of digital and e-commerce. • Branding – building and protection.
Business Strategy, Decision Making and Direction
• How to grow a business and associated problems. • Influences on business decisions – corporate social responsibility, ethical and environmental issues, stakeholder influence, developments in technology. • Difficulties in forecasting future trends. • Feasibility and risk when making strategic decisions.
Business Operations – Customer Service
• Identifying and understanding customer needs. • Methods of good customer service – product knowledge, customer engagement, post sales services. • Benefits of good customer service – customer satisfaction levels, customer loyalty, increased spend and profitability. • Changes in customer service from technology advances.
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Monday 2nd March 2020 Meeting your Learning Objectives Business Live! is proven to meet course aims by encouraging and developing an enthusiasm for studying business. The Conference Speaker Presentations Through their real life experiences our speakers will give students the chance to hear how businesses operate in a range of different contexts, and hear how they responded to different business opportunities, problems and issues. Q&A The opportunity to communicate with and challenge business professionals during the interactive question and answer sessions offers invaluable career advice. Team Park Challenges While enjoying and being immersed in the DisneylandÂŽ Parks, the Park Challenges encourage students to take a step back and critically appraise the resort as a business. These provide opportunity for problem solving, decision making as well as seeing in action how the brand is promoted, loyalty encouraged and profits maximised.
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In order to help you prepare for the Business Live! event, you will receive supplementary information about how each speaker will link to the curriculum as well as a list of desired outcomes. This can be used to follow up with your students when you return.
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COMPUTING LIVE! is an immersive event designed to bring the curriculum to life and show your students the subject in action. Learners get the opportunity to come face to face with speakers from high profile organisations who provide relevant examples and case studies for exams. Our quality speakers are chosen based on their ability to meet the learning objectives of the Computing curriculums at KS4 and KS5, which your students can then take out into the Disneyland® Parks and apply in a practical and fun way. The whole experience perfectly complements classroom learning.
Bringing Computer Studies to life for your learners
2019 Speakers: We carefully select speakers who are experts in their field to deliver their first hand industry experience. The feedback we receive for the calibre and relevance of our speakers is consistently high.
Anne-Marie Imafidon Stemettes
Computing Live! Topics covered over the course of your stay
Programming /Coding
• Discover how the concepts of programming are implemented in the real world. • The benefits and principles of applying computational thinking to solving a wide variety of problems.
Robotics/ Animatronics/ Virtual Reality
• Computer applications used to design the rides. • Operation and application of sensors. • How do emerging technologies affect current and future ride designs?
Cyber Security
• How security breaches impact a business. • Network Security Principals, protocols and standards. • How companies protect the confidentiality and integrity of their information through encryption and ciphers. • Digital Forensics – tools and techniques used; Information Security Management. • Systems – managing secure information. • Security breaches and cyber-attacks, legal and ethical implications.
Rik Ferguson Cyber Security Expert
Ecommerce
Tom Nelson The Walt Disney Company
• The impact of Ecommerce on a business. • Technologies used in setting up a secure ecommerce site. • What aspects of user experience and interface design are necessary and appropriate to satisfy the end user? • The importance and impacts of emerging technologies on the design of software applications.
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Monday 2nd March 2020 Meeting your Learning Objectives Computing Live! is proven to meet course aims by encouraging and developing an enthusiasm for studying computing, encouraging students to think creatively and innovatively whilst understanding the impact and risks of digital technology on the world around them. The Conference Speaker Presentations Through their real life experiences our speakers will give students the chance to hear how fundamental principles and concepts of computer science are applied in the real world to offer real solutions to everyday problems, as well as understanding the different directions a career in computing could take. Q&A The opportunity to communicate with computing industry professionals during the interactive question and answer sessions offers invaluable career insight and advice. Team Park Challenges While enjoying and being immersed in the DisneylandÂŽ Parks the Park Challenges encourage students to analyse problems in computational terms. Thinking analytically, logically and critically they will be able to see different aspects of computing technology in action whilst problem solving and gaining practical experience of the subject.
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MEDIA LIVE! is a fantastic opportunity to bring the curriculum to life and show your students the many different paths a career in media could take. From Journalism to Film and from TV to New Media this event will inspire your students and allow them to see work from specialists in their field. The three quality speakers cover the fundamentals of the Media Studies curriculum at KS4 and KS5, perfectly complementing classroom learning. Students can also get involved in this truly interactive event by submitting a competition entry to be showcased live to their fellow students on the day. The best entry is awarded a prize by our panel of expert judges.
Bringing Media to life for your learners
2019 Speakers: We carefully select speakers who are experts in their field to deliver their first hand industry experience. The feedback we receive for the calibre and relevance of our speakers is consistently high.
Lucy Brett
Media Live! Topics covered over the course of your stay
Media Representation Media Audiences
• Understanding the meaning behind the content • Representation and mis-representation in the media • How audiences respond to and interpret media representations • How representations may invoke discourses and ideologies and position audiences
Regulation in the Media Industry
• The function of media regulation. • Types of regulation of the media. • The challenges and impact on media regulation. • How regulation reflects society, culture, politics and the economy.
Understanding Media Industries
• Structure of the media industry – production, distribution and circulation by organisation, groups and individuals in a global context. • How technological change affects media production, distribution and circulation. • How media organisations maintain audiences nationally and globally. • Work opportunities, career structures and forms of employment in the industry.
Andrew Davis
The Media Live! Award
Cally Beaton
This is a key part of the event day and has previously been awarded by Mark Frith, Wayne Gravie and Jo Elvin to name a few. We provide the brief for your students to showcase their talent. Submit a piece of work prior to the event which will be shown at the conference and judged by our panel of speakers. As well as the kudos of being awarded the winner by industry professionals the winning entry will win a prize for their school!
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It is a real pleasure to participate in EST’s Media Live!, especially alongside such an interesting range of industry speakers. The biggest plaudits should always go to the student attendees though, and the Media Live! audiences are as engaged, challenging, passionate, talented and articulate an audience of young people as you could hope to meet! Lucy Brett, BBFC Meeting your Learning Objectives Media Live! is proven to meet course aims by encouraging and developing an enthusiasm for studying Media Studies. • The Conference Speaker Presentations Through their real life experiences our speakers will give students the chance gain an understanding of the dynamic and changing relationships between media forms, products, media industries and audiences and the global nature of the media.
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In order to help you prepare for the Media Live! event, you will receive supplementary information about how each speaker will link to the curriculum as well as a list of desired outcomes. This can be used to follow up with your students when you return.
Q&A The opportunity to communicate with industry professionals during the interactive question and answer sessions offers invaluable career insight and advice. Competition Our competition allows students to develop and demonstrate practical skills by providing an opportunity for creative media production, and the unique opportunity to see this presented on the “Big Screen”. Team Park Challenges While enjoying and being immersed in the Disneyland® Parks the Park Challenges encourage students to take a step back and critically appraise the resort as part of a synergised media enterprise. These provide opportunity for problem solving, decision making as well as seeing in action how Disney use synergy to promote their brand, loyalty and merchandise.
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SCIENCE LIVE! is an immersive event designed to bring the curriculum to life and show your students the subject in action. Learners get the opportunity to come face to face with speakers who are specialists in their field who provide relevant examples and case studies for exams. Our quality speakers are chosen based on their ability to meet the learning objectives of the Science curriculum at KS4, which your students can then take out into the Disneyland® Parks and apply in a practical and fun way. The whole experience perfectly complements classroom learning.
Bringing Science to life for your learners
2019 Speakers: We carefully select speakers who are experts in their field to deliver their first hand industry experience. The feedback we receive for the calibre and relevance of our speakers is consistently high.
Science Live! Topics covered during the course of your stay
Ride Design and Animatronics
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Chemistry in Action
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David Wilson Imagineer The Walt Disney Company
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Key factors and considerations of ride and rollercoaster design and maintenance including changes in energy, forces and motion. Types of materials used and how these have changed over time. Systems approach to designing rides. The use of electricity and circuits to produce inputs and outputs such as light sensors and sound buzzers.
Discover how chemistry plays a vital role at Disneyland® Paris in ride special effects, shows and firework displays Chemical reactions – how these manipulate the colours seen in the pyrotechnic displays. The forms of energy released – Sound, Light and Heat. Consider how Disney create an immersive experience and trick your sense receptors through the use of smells, lights and special effects. Explore visual imagery; the power of sound and taste & smell sensations.
Dr Andrew Szydlo Chemist
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Steve Mould Science Presenter
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Monday 9th March 2020 Meeting your Learning Objectives Science Live! is designed to meet course aims by encouraging students to develop their curiosity about the world around them, giving them insight into how science works, and appreciation of its relevance to their everyday lives.
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The Conference Speaker Presentations Through their real life experiences our speakers will give students the chance to hear how science progresses through hypothesis, practical experimentation, observation, theory development and review. Q&A The opportunity to communicate with and challenge professionals during the interactive question and answer sessions, developing an understanding of the nature, processes and methods of science and helping them to answer scientific questions about the world around them. Team Park Challenges While enjoying and being immersed in the DisneylandÂŽ Parks the Park Challenges encourage students to apply observational, practical, enquiry and problem-solving skills in a new and unique learning environment.
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MATHS LIVE! is an immersive event designed to bring the curriculum to life and show your students the subject in action. Learners get the opportunity to come face to face with speakers who are specialists in their field who provide relevant examples and case studies for exams. Our quality speakers are chosen based on their ability to meet the learning objectives of the Maths curriculum at KS4, which your students can then take out into the Disneyland® Parks and apply in a practical and fun way. The whole experience perfectly complements classroom learning.
Bringing Maths to life for your learners
2019 Speakers: We carefully select speakers who are experts in their field to deliver their first hand industry experience. The feedback we receive for the calibre and relevance of our speakers is consistently high.
Maths Live! Topics covered during the course of your stay
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Maths & Theme Parks
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Steve Mould Maths Presenter
Maths in Action
Dr Matt Pritchard Maths Magician
Mathematical calculations used in rides and rollercoasters. The application of algebra, geometry and trigonometry. Calculating forces, acceleration and energy used.
The role of maths in creating an immersive experience. Understanding how the maths of rollercoasters has an effect on the human body including gravity and weightlessness. Demonstrate how maths is used around the parks from shapes to patterns and symmetry.
• Discover how mathematics plays a vital role in our lives and society. • Learn how to apply mathematical techniques to solve real-world problems. • Understanding how standard units of mass, length, time, money and other measures are used in everyday life.
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Alex Bellos Maths Writer and Broadcaster
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Monday 9th March 2020 Meeting your Learning Objectives Maths Live! is designed to meet course aims by encouraging students to develop confidence in mathematics and to recognise the importance of mathematics in the world around them. The Conference Speaker Presentations Through their real life experiences our speakers will give students the chance to hear how mathematics can be used to develop models of real situations and learn that they can be more or less effective depending on the assumptions that have been made. Q&A The opportunity to communicate with and challenge professionals during the interactive question and answer sessions, will develop their knowledge and understanding of mathematical methods and concepts. Team Park Challenges While enjoying and being immersed in the DisneylandÂŽ Parks the Park Challenges enable students to select and apply mathematical techniques to solve problems and interpret mathematical information to reach conclusions within a unique learning environment.
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PSYCHOLOGY LIVE! is a fantastic opportunity to bring the curriculum to life allowing your students to grasp the fundamentals of human behaviours in action. Learners get the opportunity to come face to face with speakers who are specialists in their field providing relevant and memorable examples and case studies for exams. The three quality speakers cover the fundamentals of the Psychology curriculum at KS4 and KS5, which your students can then take out into the Disneyland® Parks and apply in a practical and fun way. The whole experience perfectly complements classroom learning.
Bringing Psychology to life for your learners
2019 Speakers: We carefully select speakers who are experts in their field to deliver their first hand industry experience. The feedback we receive for the calibre and relevance of our speakers is consistently high.
Psychology Live! Topics covered over the course of your stay Psychopathology and Individual Differences
• Abnormality, including deviation from social norms, and the failure to function adequately, • The behavioural, emotional and cognitive characteristics of phobias, fear and depression • The approaches used to explain and treat phobias, including hypnosis • Sources of stress: life changes and daily hassles. Workplace stress, including the effects of workload and control. • How contemporary culture is affecting both adults and children’s mental health. • Human psychology and technology
Stress and Psychodynamics
Dr Aaron Balick Psychotherapist
• The causes of criminal and anti-social behaviour. • Understanding the offender, offence analysis, profiling and case formulation • Identification and treatment of offenders. • The effect of imprisonment – custodial sentencing and reform as responses to criminal behaviour.
Forensics and Criminology
Michelle Fletcher Clinical Psychologist
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John Clifford Hypnotherapist
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Monday 9th March 2020 Meeting your Learning Objectives Psychology Live! is proven to meet course aims by encouraging and developing an enthusiasm for studying psychology as well as inspiration for how to progress further in the subject. The Conference Speaker Presentations Through their real life experiences our speakers will give students the chance to understand how psychology is applied in the real world; the contribution of psychology to individual, social and cultural diversity, and ultimately to a successful society, providing useful and interesting case studies and examples. Q&A The opportunity to ask questions of industry practitioners and learn about careers associated with the subject during the interactive question and answer sessions. Team Park Challenges While enjoying and being immersed in the DisneylandÂŽ Parks the Park Challenges encourage students to take a step back and look at the resort from a scientific perspective. Students are given simple experiments to complete which allow them to develop arguments and draw conclusions about how psychological principles/theories are applied across the resort in order to stimulate specific behaviours and responses.
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In order to help you prepare for the Psychology Live! event, you will receive supplementary information about how each speaker will link to the curriculum as well as a list of desired outcomes. This can be used to follow up with your students when you return.
I’m glad that the presentation was well received, and that students managed to learn something as well as gain a sense of what it’s like working as a forensic psychologist Michelle Fletcher, Clinical Psychologist
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Itinerary Options 2 Night Coach Package from £259 1 DAY PARK TICKET Sunday: Morning departure for Disneyland® Paris. Overnight at Disneyland® Paris. Monday: Live! event & free time in the parks. Overnight at Disneyland® Paris. Tuesday: Return coach travel.
3 Night Coach Package from £369 2 DAY PARK TICKET Sunday: Morning departure. Overnight at Disneyland® Paris. Monday: Live! event and free time in the parks. Overnight at Disneyland® Paris. Tuesday: Optional morning trip to Paris. Afternoon free time in the parks. Overnight at Disneyland® Paris. Wednesday: Return coach travel
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Saturday: Afternoon departure for Disneyland® Paris. Overnight channel crossing and coach travel. Sunday: Morning arrival at Disneyland® Paris. Free time in the Parks. Overnight at Disneyland® Paris. Monday: Live! event and free time in the parks. Overnight at Disneyland® Paris. Tuesday: Return coach travel.
What’s Included: • Attendance at a Live! event • Curriculum-linked workbook for students including Park Challenges • Park Hopper Ticket
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• 2 nights bed & breakfast accommodation (additional nights available at a supplement)
Sunday: Morning departure for Disneyland® Paris. Overnight at Disneyland® Paris. Monday: Live Event! Free time in Park. Overnight at Disneyland® Paris. Tuesday: Free time in Park. PM Return Eurostar
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