Aims and Vision
G&L Futures Live Projects provide students with realworld problem-solving challenges that are fully immersive and experiential by linking up with entrepreneurs and business leaders, our alumnae, and the wider community.
The projects aim to help our students become the pioneers of the future who will make a positive difference to society and help solve some of the most critical problems facing humankind.
In our rapidly changing world we focus on developing the skills they will need as 22-year-olds, as identified by the World Economic Forum:
CURRICULUM
Students are encouraged to:
Actively help others to focus on the situation at hand and continue to generate positivity
When finalising presentation
EMPATHISE
Prepared to engage with alternative viewpoints both within the team but also in connection to the problem
During ‘crazy eights’ During decision filter
INFORMED
Noticeably determined to avoid just personal opinion with a desire to create justification through evidence
When finalising presentation When putting ideas forward for consideration
Actively listen through allowing time and space before questioning but then asking pertinent questions
During decision filter During interviews
COMMUNICATE
Able to create a clear vision of their idea in another person’s mind through clear explanation and use of example
During interviews
Feeding back after research jigsaw In presentation
CHALLENGE
Embrace the complexity of the information and problem and remain resolute in connecting an idea to the problem
During decision filter During research jigsaw
LEARNING THROUGH DOING
WHAT ARE THE PROJECTS:
A range of LIVE CHALLENGES focused on developing evidence-based ideas and solutions.
HOW THEY WORK:
Structured courses with opportunities to work with content experts, community and business leaders and entrepreneurs, supported by teacher-led sessions. Solutions will be developed connecting ideas to evidence and research.
WHAT WILL STUDENTS GAIN?
Experience:
• Confidence in working with others
• Convincing communication skills
• Greater ability to engage with research
• A willingness to embrace different perspectives
• Problem-solving skills
• Entrepreneurial mindsets
• Ability to pivot ideas
Active Ingredients
A project should be:
LEARNING
DRIVEN
Must be designed to consciously develop skills and mindsets
AUTHENTIC Real world context with connected real world impact
EVIDENCE BASED
Students must be able to develop ideas by linking to research
COMPLEX Not immediately soluble which creates sustained inquiry
COLLABORATIVE Make space for collaboration; in the process or in feedback
VOICE AND CHOICE
Allow for guided choice and support student voice
ITERATIVE As research takes place the journey will change course
PUBLIC PRODUCT The solution will be presented to an authentic audience
DESIGN Real problem impacting community Instructional Practice Solution that makes a difference
SUPPORT
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CURRICULUM PROJECTS
Year 7
• Drama: Curriculum redesigned to explore collaboration, self regulation and multiple perspectives through experience in drama lessons to help notice how to employ these skills outside of Drama in other areas of school life.
• MBA: Mini Business Adventure to develop a stall for a school community audience including two days of workshops to develop ideas, resulting in a market day with all Year 7 involved in making, marketing and selling.
Year 8
• Healthy Snacks: Chartwells and Food Tech project to design and sell healthy snacks
• Think Again Drama Course
• City AM Workshop
Year 9
• Sustainable Travel: Eight week course embedded in curriculum to design an evidenced based campaign to increase sustainable travel behaviour in the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in partnership with the council’s sustainability department.
• Think Again: Role play activity workshops to demonstrate the reasons for the demise of Blackberry, and promoting the Think Again concept of ‘Thinking like a scientist’.
• Biodiversity: Challenge to increase biodiversity on the school site
• Oatsu: New Product Development for breakfast brand Oatsu
• Bridge: Mentors for Mighty Slice (Bridge is our outreach programme for Year 5 students from local primary schools)
Year 10
• Reuters: News project
• TED Talks
• Leadership in Action Course
Lower Sixth
• LSE Mentorpreneurship: All Lower Sixth work with a group of social entrepreneurs who are mentors with LSE Generate, the social entrepreneurship accelerator to ideate and design ideas. This co-created and co-delivered programme between LSE and Godolphin and Latymer supports Lower Sixth students to develop their ideas to benefit their community.
CO-CURRICULAR PROJECTS
Working with external organisations on developing solutions for their pressing problems
• Saved: Brand challenge with high protein start up snack company
• Team Repair: Education and STEM challenge with start up sustainable STEM education business
• Reuters: Digital media challenge around consumption of news.
• IRIS: investigation of how weather and traffic affected daily air pollution (specifically NOx) levels in London; links between pollution and borough population or wages; connections between types of air pollution and lung cancer rates. Worked alongside fellow students from other schools, as well as academics and scientists from the Natural History Museum, Google’s Deep Mind team, and Professor Alan Barr from CERN and Oxford.
REAL EXPERIENCE
Experts and organisations we work with
Crystal Eisinger Class of 2008
Google Executive, Urban Pantry and Keakie
Mark Thomlinson
Climate Engagement and Behaviour Change Lead at Hammersmith and Fulham Council
Isar
Bhattachargee
Uncover Consulting and Organisational Psychologist
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The Live Projects
Inhouse Internships Launched March 2022
An initiative to develop the skills and competencies needed by 22-year-olds embarking on their careers.
Giving students the opportunity to engage with business leaders, experts and professionals while being encouraged to develop the real-life problem-solving skills that future employers will need. Students collaborate, develop convincing communication skills, critical research skills, think creatively and embrace different perspectives.
Inhouse internships are structured as a range of challenges focused on developing evidence-based ideas and solutions and the first series of pilot courses ran from March through to June 2022 including:
• ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERNSHIP:
Lower Sixth help music streaming service KEAKIE increase its market share by engaging new users
• SUSTAINABILITY INTERNSHIP:
Years 8–10 create a strategy to help Godolphin and Latymer reduce its carbon footprint and achieve Net Zero emissions;
• BIG DATA INTERNSHIP: Years 7–10 work with data science to research air quality for the IRIS conference
• SMALL BUSINESS INTERNSHIP: Year 7s work with Urban Pantry café to increase midweek revenues.
“It is an incredible way of nurturing the key qualities the students of today will need in their careers: entrepreneurship, communication skills, collaboration and creative thinking.”
Crystal Eisinger, Urban pantry Owner and Google Executive
“KEAKIE has catalysed me to think about a future in business or management …this In-house Internship created the bridges between purely studying academically and the real-world.”
Florence Wilkes, Lower Sixth
“Initially our prototype didn’t have enough fruit so didn’t meet the health criteria, so we had to pivot our idea to make it more nutritious whilst still maintaining the taste.”
Year 8 Cinnamon & Apple Tarts Team
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Academic Year
2022-23
In-house Internships rolled out and G&L Futures Live Projects embedded into Year 9 Curriculum
Year 9 Sustainable Travel
For Year 9 the In-house Internship became a formal part of their curriculum with students working directly with the Hammersmith and Fulham Council to encourage more eco-friendly travel choices in the borough. At the presentation of their ideas, Mark Thomlinson, Climate Engagement and Behaviour Change Lead at Hammersmith and Fulham Council commented, ‘it is wonderful to see the Godolphin girls engage with these issues so intelligently and to develop ideas that will resonate with other young people in the borough.” We are delighted that one of the ideas is being rolled out by the council across the borough.
Year 7 Tenner Challenge
Students developed ideas for products and services to pitch to their peers, their form tutors and parents. They worked with economist and organisational psychologist Isar Bhattachargee; researched ideas at Spitalfields market and took part in a market stall sales event.
“It was great to see students revise pricing as they saw what demand was like – one market stall doubled their price and were still nearly sold out.” Isar Bhattachargee
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IN-HOUSEINTERNSHIPS 2022-23 Students will develop an understanding of campaigns that have previously worked and failed, identify an audience segment to focus on and conduct real customer discovery. Combining this insight with research from across the field, alongside a developing understanding of nudge theory, students will create a storyboard for a campaign to present back to the council representatives. ECO-FRIENDLY TRAVEL CHOICES WORKING WITH: Hammersmith & Fulham Council Climate Alliance FOCUSING ON: • CHANGING BEHAVIOUR DEVELOPING A PUBLIC BENEFIT CAMPAIGN CARING FOR THE PLANET YEAR 9 Design a campaign to encourage local residents to travel more sustainably WHEN: TUESDAYS PERIOD 2 FROM: TUESDAY 6 SEPTEMBER TO: MARCH 23 IN-HOUSEINTERNSHIPS 2022-23 Students will develop an understanding of the benefits and drawbacks of the Hammersmith Privilege card through direct customer discovery. They will identify a specific target audience to focus on and engage with cross-sector research to develop, innovate and support an evidence based idea to present back to the Hammersmith BID team. HAMMERSMITH BUSINESS LOYALTY CARD WORKING WITH: Hammersmith Business Improvement District FOCUSING ON: MARKETING BUSINESS TRENDS • LOYALTY SCHEMES YEARS 8-10 Create a plan to boost the effectiveness and impact of the Hammersmith Privilege card WHEN: THURSDAY LUNCHTIMES LAUNCH: FRIDAY 11 NOVEMBER TO: MARCH 2023 LEARNING THROUGH DOING IN-HOUSEINTERNSHIPS 2022-23 Students will consider how 15-21 year olds consume information and investigate the pitfalls and values in this context. This will involve gaining and an understanding of Reuters as a trusted news source, exploring ways to further their reach and investigating how social media channels influence decision making. The scope of this programme is wide ranging. NEWS, MEDIA AND (MIS)INFORMATION IN COLLABORATION WITH: FOCUSING ON: IDENTIFYING FAKE NEWS • SOCIAL MEDIA JOURNALISM YEARS 10 & LVI Create a plan to engage 15-21 year olds with trusted news WHEN: WEDNESDAY LUNCHTIMES FROM: LATE NOVEMBER TO: MARCH 2023 IN-HOUSEINTERNSHIPS 2022-23 Students will work with the company founder to understand the obstacles faced when marketing a unique product to the target consumer. They will identify group within the health conscious market and design a strategy to increase brand awareness. Students will need to research both the nutritional benefits of insects as food and gain insight into how other unique products have managed to gain a broader audience. They will then work together to identify creative solutions and design presentation to feedback to the company. SUSTAINABLE FOOD START-UP WORKING WITH: Saved Food FOCUSING ON: LATEST TRENDS IN NUTRITION MARKETING ENTREPRENEURSHIP YEARS 9,10 & LVI Design a marketing plan for Saved to increase engagement and awareness in the health conscious market WHEN: MONDAYS AFTER SCHOOL FROM: MONDAY 14 NOVEMBER TO: MARCH 2023 LEARNING THROUGH DOING IN-HOUSEINTERNSHIPS 2022-23 Students will need to understand the concept of the current programme, the science behind the faults in the products (Gameboy, walkie talkie, radio controlled car) and how this links to the science curriculum content. Customer discovery (with our own year 7 & 8) will provide insight into the current programme. Students will develop practical, hands-on engineering skills alongside the theory to help them generate ideas for new products to be included in the programme that will appeal to girls aged 8-12. STEM START-UP WORKING WITH: FOCUSING ON: SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING HANDS-ON PRACTICAL SKILLS PRODUCT INNOVATION YEARS 10-11 Produce a concept for a new product for Team Repair’s STEM education programme, to appeal to 8-12 year old girls WHEN: MONDAYS AFTER SCHOOL FROM: ALREADY STARTED TO: FRIDAY 5 DECEMBER LEARNING THROUGH DOING IN-HOUSEINTERNSHIPS 2022-23 Students will work collaboratively to explore areas of interest and ideas to benefit society and the community. Taught workshops will support the girls as they research and refine their ideas, testing assumptions through customer discovery. Developing an idea which can be implemented realistically but also impactfully will require refinement and iteration. The teams will present their evidenced and validated idea as something which could be introduced into society or a particular community. MENTORPRENEURSHIP: THE FUTURE OF YOUR SOCIETY FOCUSING ON: • HUMAN NEED • SUSTAINABILITY • SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP YEAR LVI Design an initiative to inspire positive impact within a segment of society or your local community WHEN: MONDAY LUNCHTIMES FROM: FRIDAY 11 NOVEMBER TO: MARCH 2023 WORKING WITH: Powered by LEARNING THROUGH DOING IN-HOUSEINTERNSHIPS 2022-23 Students will work collaboratively to explore their interests in society and the community to generate an initial idea. Taught workshops will support the girls as they research and refine their ideas, testing assumptions through customer discovery. Developing an idea which can be implemented realistically but also impactfully will require refinement and iteration. The teams will present their evidenced and validated idea as something which could be introduced into society or a particular community. SOCIAL IMPACT PRIZE FOCUSING ON: HUMAN NEED • SUSTAINABILITY • SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP YEARS 7-11 Design and implement an initiative to create positive impact within a segment of society or your local community WHEN: WED OR THURS LUNCHTIMES FROM: WED 16 OR THURS 17 NOV TO: MARCH 2023 IN-HOUSEINTERNSHIPS 2022-23 Students will continue and refine research initiated last year looking into the impact of the COVID lockdowns on air pollution in London. Students on the team will need to determine the impact of other effects on pollution, such as weather and traffic zoning, and compare London to other areas. Students will learn how to work with large sets of data, and will need to collaborate in order to analyse, summarise and present scientific results. The team will present their research to a conference of their peers and professionals at the London IRIS Conference. BIG DATA: LONDON AIR POLLUTION FOCUSING ON: • GEOGRAPHIC & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH • DATA ANALYSIS YEARS 9-11 Determine the impact lockdowns had on air pollution in London and present analysis at an academic conference. WHEN: THURSDAYS AFTER SCHOOL FROM: THURSDAY 29 SEPTEMBER TO: JULY 2023 PROJECT PARTNER: IRIS
OUTREACH
Bridge is our academic enrichment programme for Year 5 and 6 local primary school children. They are nominated by their Head teachers to come to Godolphin and Latymer one Saturday each month for Maths and English lessons and other subjects on rotation. We also provide support for applications to academically selective schools and information about bursaries available at independent schools.
Our 2023 programme included a joint venture between the G&L Futures programme and the LSE.
Over 60 Bridge students participated in a workshop to gain an insight into the world of entrepreneurship. Emily Tout, alumna of LSE Generate and founder of high-protein cheesecake business the Mighty Slice, tasked the Bridge students (with the help of their Godolphin Year 9 mentors) to create a compelling pitch of how she might grow her start-up over the next year. Pupils developed an understanding of the business and the market; developed their ideas and created their branding before developing a final pitch for the growth of Mighty Slice.
“What I’d like to be in the future is a food journalist because we did a Mighty Slice course with the LSE and I found that really intriguing.”
Olive 2023 Bridge Student
Academic Year 2023-24 (so far ...)
Year 10 TED Talks
After introductory mini TED Talks from teaching staff students researched their chosen topics and developed their own mini-TED Talk which they delivered in small groups.
Year 8 Healthy Snacks
In their Food and Nutrition lessons, Year 8 have been designing, developing and making healthy snacks to sell in the Cloisters room at breaktime.
Year 8 City AM Newspaper
Year 8 students collaborated with industry experts from financial newspaper City A.M. They stepped into the shoes of newspaper executives, working in boardroom positions to design their very own newspaper.
Year 9 Biodiversity Project
Year 9 students have been tasked to design a researched and evidenced plan to increase biodiversity on the school site. Ideas in development include concepts that include a Herb Garden, Bee Hotel and Vertical Planting.
Team Repair Partnership Workshop
As part of STEM Week we worked with sustainable STEM-education start-up Team Repair to roll-out the Live Project with one of our partner schools, Sacred Heart High School.
Year 7 MBA Mini Business Adventure
Launched on Wednesday 13 March. Students are guided through the process of developing products and ideas that benefit people and the planet considering problems such as climate change; health; sustainable food; energy; education; housing; inequality; and building design.
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LSE Mentorpreneurship Live Project
Launched November 2022, the LSE Mentorpreneurship project for Lower Sixth students challenges them to develop an evidence-based initiative that will have a positive impact on the local community. The project helps students develop entrepreneurial mindsets and skills that will be valuable to them in the future whilst creating ideas that will solve a problem and have a positive impact on society.
Launch Event at the LSE
All Lower Sixth students took part in a full-day session at the London School of Economics (LSE) in Holborn. They were welcomed by LSE Generate’s Global Engagement Lead, Alice Eddie, who talked about the aims of the day before introducing Erica Nakanishu-Stamis. Erica ran a fantastic morning session that focused on the qualities that are needed for an entrepreneurial mindset - communication, problemsolving, resilience, flexibility, creativity - and explained how these would be essential in our students’ future careers. The Lower Sixth were introduced to the concept of systems thinking and the process of finding opportunities and ideas to solve problems and then they were set a challenge and task to put these learnings into practice before pitching their ideas to LSE Generate Founders. A panel event with the Founders, who introduced themselves and talked the students through their entrepreneurial journey, wrapped up the morning.
In the afternoon the Lower Sixth worked with their founders to develop ideas and to further explore the challenges and pitfalls of being a social entrepreneur, with particular reference to the UN Sustainability Development Goals for 2030.
How the programme works in school
Weekly workshops at school focus on helping students understand the problem that they are interested in, developing empathy through audience need-finding, hypothesising a solution supported by a range of evidence, extolling the benefit of rethinking and iterating ideas based upon feedback and learning the art of the pitch. The LSE Generate team also provide a dedicated online platform and an app, packed full of additional relevant materials, through which the students can have ongoing communication and support from their founder mentors and with each other; download and upload relevant templates; complete mini-self learning courses; and attend online tutorials. For the 2022-23 programme the school also ran a Science of Creativity workshop with Dr Jonathan Firth from the University of Strathclyde focusing on creativity, problem solving and critical thinking.
The programme culminated in teams pitching their idea in the Grand Finale to a panel of eminent experts who are involved in organisations with a societal focus. Commitment to this Inhouse Internship enabled students to explore the valuable skills connected to life beyond the purely academic.
LSE Generate came to Godolphin to produce their own film about the project with feedback and reflections from our students and staff:
LSE Mentorpreneurship
Live Project Finale
At the final session just before Easter 2023, ten teams of Lower Sixth students presented their ideas to the panel of LSE Generate Mentorpreneurship judges and Godolphin students. There were a variety of polished presentations on themes ranging from helping local Year 6 pupils to improve their communication skills through debating workshops; connecting Year 1 and 2 pupils into activity sessions to boost physical wellness; supplying art equipment to those who are not fortunate enough to have easy access; to the concept of ‘Feeding the Future’, which was one of the winning concepts which combines cookery lessons for students with providing hot meals for the Earls Court Community Hub.
Feeding the Future Case Study
• In May 2023 it was a full house at the ECDC Community Hub’s Bingo Night on Thursday evening when Lower Sixth students served up a freshly cooked three-course meal to local elderly residents as part of their LSE Mentorpreneurship project.
• The evening had been organised in collaboration with the Dementia Action Alliance to coincide with Dementia Action Week and the group was also joined by Hammersmith & Fulham Councillor Asif Siddique, Lead Member for Support for Older People. Councillor Siddique thanked the pupils saying, ‘projects like this are critical for the mental wellbeing of the older residents of the borough and we are delighted that the students of Godolphin and Latymer have got involved in this way’.
• Earlier in the day the students had been honing their culinary skills under the watchful eye of the school’s catering team, Chartwells, to prepare a special menu of hummus and flatbreads; vegetable bake and greens; and apple and berry crumble and custard.
• This was all part of the school’s LSE Generate Mentorpreneurship programme, powered by OakNorth, where Lower Sixth students design an evidence-based initiative with the potential to create positive impact within a segment of society or local community. The purpose of this programme has been two-fold; to support students to engage with the wider community but also to develop skills and mindsets valuable to them both now and in the future. Fleur, Lila, Dia and Bea came up with the idea of Feeding the Future, a project that will teach students about to go off to university how to cook more healthy food while providing free hot meals to the local community.
• Lower Sixth student Bea explained, ‘we’ve really enjoyed meeting the community here in Earls Court and it has been an invaluable opportunity to learn and grow our project; our ultimate goal is to reach out to the local homeless community in the borough as they will be individuals who could benefit most’.
• Earls Court Development Company (ECDC) Community Hub Manager, Wasim Abd El Aziz, commented, ‘Thursday evening Community Bingo Night is one of the highlights of the week when members of the community can get together, including some of our older residents who might be feeling lonely or isolated. It was great to have the Godolphin students here to spread some good cheer and also to share their delicious food.’
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2023-24
The LSE Mentorpreneurship Project has become a key part of the co-curricular programme for our Lower Sixth students
In September 2023, Lower Sixth students spent the day at the London School of Economics as part of the LSE Mentorpreneurship programme.
The students tackled themes such as:
• Understanding social entrepreneurship
• The value of systematic thinking in social enterprise
• Ideation with social start-up founders on current issues they are facing
Students also took part in a workshop entitled ‘Does your job exist yet?’. This deep dive into the importance of effective thinking in the social enterprise space, launched the start of the course and supported students to envision, develop, improve and refine initiatives designed to benefit society and community.
By taking part in real-life projects, students develop the agile mindset and skills which will be so valuable as they move through education and beyond. This will enable them to make a positive impact in their careers and also in the wider world.
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