The school's work-related 'Mini-Enterprise Scheme' for Year 10 students will run this year from 23rd April to 2nd July.  All Year 10 students take part, the aim of the scheme being to give the students an active introduction to the world of work and enterprise. The winners receive generous prizes.

Students will be expected to set up a business plan to include research on potential customers, competitors, pricing policy, sales analysis etc for a given product though they will not actually produce or sell it, apart from a prototype.

The students will be working in small groups of between 6 and 8 on their projects. We would very much appreciate help from parents with some business experience who may be able to come into school during this time and mentor the groups and offer advice and guidance on their project work.  The sessions will take place on Thursday mornings from 9.15 am to 10.00 am.

If you can spare sometime for this very worth while event could you email Christine Newman, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

The British Education Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) has released guidelines on child fingerprinting in schools. The government's focus has been solely on data protection issues whist disregarding whether it is morally acceptable for a society to allow widespread fingerprinting of children.

The guidelines state: "There is nothing explicit in the Data Protection Act to require schools to seek the consent of parents before implementing a biometric technology system." The guidelines do suggest though that: "Whilst consent is not required for all processing of personal data, schools should normally involve pupils and parents in their decisions to use biometric technologies as is the case with other decisions made during the school life of children."