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Welcome on board on behalf of our team. 

We invite you to step inside, take a look and discover enterprise learning activities that are being developed to build lifelong business and enterprise skills for the future.


In a nutshell, the enterprise academy project is designed to develop enterprise and business skills with schools across the LEGI* area – but more of that later! *Local Enterprise Growth Initiative

The virtual enterprise academy is a complete world of supported learning, working with the best of local talent to develop enterprise and business skills in partnership with focus schools.

The six focus schools for 2007/08:
Sutton Centre Community College and The Holgate School in Ashfield,
The Bolsover School and Shirebrook School in Bolsover
Queen Elizabeth’s Endowed School and The Manor School in Mansfield.

Additional schools for 2008/09:
Kirkby College in Ashfield
Heritage Specialist School in Bolsover
Samworth Church Academy in Mansfield

The Enterprise Academy work with these schools includes enterprise-focused student workshops, enterprise training for teachers and the creation of enterprise programmes integrated into the curriculum. Schools decide what they want to do and no limits develop the supporting materials for programmes to enable teachers to focus on delivery. Activities include a variety of enterprise challenge events with students, including an enterprise challenge event in March 2009.

The academy has five key aims:

• to develop mutually beneficial engagement between local businesses and schools
• to develop the capacity of participating schools to deliver enterprise skills
• to embed an enterprise culture amongst students and staff
• to integrate enterprise skills across the curriculum
• to improve communications on the enterprise agenda both within, and between, schools

Constantly updated, myenterpriseacademy.org reflects the ongoing activity in the academy and will provide opportunity for on-line feedback.