On Tuesday 21st May and Wednesday 22nd May, we hosted our Tulip Careers Days across both Springview and Waterside Campuses.
We invited a range of businesses and pupils were coordinated into mixed set groups to attend interactive sessions in the ‘World of Work’.
The pupils enjoyed the following activities led by the following businesses:
- World Wide Fruit: preparing fruit and making a smoothy. Exploring consistency of smoothies. Fruit sorting (similar to a factory setting).
- LCC Employability Support Service: visual demonstration of the smoothie bike. Apple bobbing. Trying on PPE.
- Progreen (Springview Campus): planting seeds in small pots. Picture and word matching activity.
- Pets at Home (Waterside Campus): exploring animals and the items they need. Costs of different pet products. Fitting a dog harness. Building a hamster cage.
- LCC Highway Partnership (Springview Campus): snowplough demonstration. PPE (Be Safe, Be Seen), flying drones, remote control mini digger, building a bridge.
- LCC Waste/Recycling: rubbish sorting activity wearing different types of goggles to make the activity more difficult. Rubbish sorting. Snakes and ladders.
- Tilbury Douglas with Blue Fox Construction Ltd (Waterside Campus): learning about drones. Exploring different sizes of drone. Drone simulator activity.
- Morrisons Butchers (Waterside Campus): live butchery demonstration. Health & Safety learning.
Headteacher, Matt Bloodworth-Flatt, said:
“It has been such a successful Careers Day across Tulip Academy. I would like to thank the businesses who took part and spent time with our pupils to teach them about their possible next steps into employment, following school.
Thanks also to our amazing staff team and in particular, Bill Baird-Parker (LCC’s SEND Employment Officer), for supporting us to build new relationships with local employers.”
CLICK HERE to view our video montage of the day.
