Environment

GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK

For the second year running, we celebrated Global Entrepreneurship Week (16-20 November) with a range of initiatives emphasising the five key entrepreneurial traits of Communication, Creativity, Collaboration, Curiosity and Courage.

We believe these traits, or 5Cs, are pivotal to the future success of all our pupils, regardless of whether they plan on running their own businesses one day or whether they choose to pursue a corporate career, or an alternative career path.

The week started with an assembly where I explained the 5Cs to the girls and what they involved. Each day that week, a video featuring an interview with a former Sherborne Girls pupil was released; the Old Girls were asked to elaborate on the impact these five characteristics had had on their careers to date. The interviewees included an Interior Designer, a Marketing and Advertising expert, a Doctor, a Lawyer and a Jewellery Designer who started her business whilst she was in L5 in Wingfield Digby! Although each career path has been entirely different, there is no doubt that the communication, collaboration, creativity, curiosity and courage traits have been critical to their success.

The impact of the week was captured by Kate Wong and Poppy D’Abo in a collection of interviews from across the entire SG community and these will be released in due course to:

sherbornegirlsvoices.com.

The whole week fired up the girls’ appreciation of the business world with first-hand advice from excellent role models.

Emma Wimhurst

Teacher of Business, Entrepreneurship Coordinator

“CURIOSITY IS A CODE WORD FOR PROGRESS.” Mel Exon, former pupil

DID YOU KNOW?

SG’s commitment to improving our environmental credentials remains as strong as ever with suggestions from the pupils’ Eco-council adding valuable input to decision-making. Here are some of our ‘green’ facts:

 Most of our vehicle fleet is now electric or low-emission small engine petrol variants, and most of our gardening power tools are electric, to reduce our use of fossil fuels.

 Our waste is managed to optimise recycling, and we work closely with waste management contractors to ensure our waste is used to generate power where possible.

 Our energy suppliers have been selected so we use energy generated from sustainable sources and we have energy monitoring in all key buildings.

 The cross-laminated timber structure of The Merritt Centre came from sustainable sources, resulting in a significant negative carbon footprint. The new development is entirely cooled and heated by ground source heat pumps, ensuring the building is as environmentally friendly as possible.

 Solar panels have been fitted to the Oxley Sports Centre to generate electricity and warm water, with considerable energy savings, particularly in the swimming pool.

 We have virtually stopped our use of single use plastics by ensuring girls and staff use tap water to fill reusable bottle whenever possible and we have changed plastic cups to paper or PLA.