Languages Work Experience Students in the Languages department have had the opportunity to spend a week abroad working in the country whose language they are studying. Pippa McCune worked in Koblenz in Germany: “My work experience placement was at Café Werrmann in Koblenz, Germany. I worked for five days and really enjoyed it. I soon realised that speaking German in school is completely different to speaking German in Germany. When I wasn’t working I had chance to visit the ‘Deutsches Eck’ and go shopping, which meant that I had more opportunities to practise my German. By the end of the week I was used to hearing different accents and I was speaking German without having to think about it. It was a really great experience and I would recommend it to anyone who studies a language.” Katie Parker spent her week in Rouen, France: “For my work experience placement I worked in a family run hotel in Rouen, France. At times I found it difficult as it is so different to speaking French in a classroom environment but I really enjoyed my time there. I only worked in the mornings so I got the chance to experience the different culture and use my French in different situations, for example eating in restaurants and meeting people on evenings out. It also looks great on a CV and university application so I would recommend everyone to do it if they can. I would definitely do it again!”
::: Young Enterprise
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oung Enterprise is the largest business and enterprise education charity in the country. Every year they help 250,000 young people learn about business and the world of work in the classroom under the guidance of volunteers from 3,500 companies. They believe in learning by doing and this is firmly supported by their mission statement “to inspire and equip young people to learn and succeed through enterprise.” This year’s South Hunsley team, Innovation, are already well under way with their business start-up. Each of the thirteen employees have now been given company roles and they have successfully appointed Aneil Sanghera as Managing Director.
Innovation offer pre-set and customised phone case messages for a range of mobile phones. The pre-set messages will be available within the next two weeks and customers will be able to place an order for a personal message of their choice. This has enabled Innovation to create a very strong unique selling point. The team will be attending their first trade fair at St Stephen’s in Hull on Saturday 10 December from 9am-5pm. If you would like to order a personalised phone case, enquire about the preset message cases or if you would like to discuss possible investment in the company, then please email Aneil Sanghera (MD) on 3as6770@southhunsley. org.uk.
::: Target Two Point Zero
Eddie Rogerson Eddie Rogerson of Year 10 has recently been accepted onto Barnsley FC’s Football Academy. This will give him the opportunity to play against top tier academies including Manchester United, and could potentially lead to a position on Barnsley’s squad in the future. There are only 14 players in Eddie’s age group, most of whom are local to Barnsley. Eddie has trained with Hull City’s academy as well as trialling for both Sheffield Wednesday and United before settling on Barnsley. We would like to wish Eddie the very best of luck for the future.
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arget Two Point Zero is a national monetary policy competition run by the Bank of England. On 24 November, Sunny Sanghera, Jenny Wood, Holly Bahn and Will Spafford presented their research on interest rates and the use of quantitative easing to try and ensure that inflation returns to its target of 2%. They have worked on this since
September and are preparing for a series of probing questions to test their understanding of the economy. The competition gives students age 16-18 the chance to take on the role of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, assess economic conditions and the outlook for inflation and tell panels of judges what monetary policy they would set to achieve the Government’s inflation target of 2.0%.