Subtitles
Associated Teachers’ TV programme
Social Enterprise: The Sawtry Approach
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(narrator) This isn't just
digging and weeding.
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This is an example
of social enterprise in action.
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Now that enterprise education
is being slotted into the timetable,
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a national charity is urging schools
to seize the opportunity
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to get involved with
community and conservation projects.
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Changemakers
has a simple message for schools.
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From September you must provide
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five hours of enterprise learning
over two years,
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so why not
make it social enterprise?
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22 schools have tried out different
models of social enterprise,
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including SawtryCommunity College
in Cambridgeshire.
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While some schools stuck with
two or three large-scale ventures,
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here, staff decided that all pupils
in year 10 - that's around 280 -
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should take part
in more than 30 projects.
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It's been possible because
the projects are mostly small,
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involve working nearby
or embrace existing activities.
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They also demonstrate that the
simplest ideas are often the best
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when you want to help the community.
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I think it makes
the enterprising skills
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more relevant to the young people
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because it is based on
their own interests
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and it's based in a context
that they can relate to.
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One of the problems with enterprise
and how it's sometimes taught
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is that not every young person can
or wants to be Richard Branson
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or Alan Sugar.
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And with this kind of approach
they can make the connections
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between what they're doing
in their local community
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and how the skills that they're
developing might go on to help them
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in whatever it is
they go on to do later in life.
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(narrator) We asked Adam,
as chief executive of Changemakers,
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to assess
how social-enterprise education
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is working
at SawtryCommunity College.
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It begins with sessions like this,
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where pupils get into groups
and come up with ideas.
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It becomes clear that horticulture
and looking after the environment
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is popular
and important in these parts.
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..doing up the conservation area
behind the science blocks
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to make it
somewhere people can go.
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(man) Right.
What's it like at the moment?
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A mess, and it's all overgrown,
but we can sort that out.
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As a group, we chose a gardening
project at the local primary school.
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We're in the planning stage
at the moment,
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deciding
what we're going to put in it,
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what kind of plants, suitable plants
that will last the year.
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There's very big pots
over by the tech and science block,
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and we're going to be deweeding them
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and putting new flowers in and
things to make it look a lot better.
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(man) Why did you choose
that particular project?
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Because there will be
a lot of visible difference.
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It will look better for the school.
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(narrator) For staff, it's a relief
that the plans are realistic.
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(man) Did you get
some really bizarre ideas?
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- One or two.
- (man) Go on.
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Dome the whole college, which
I thought was a fantastic idea.
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- (man) Put a dome on the college?
- Yeah,
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which would be all-weather,
brilliant.
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(narrator) While staff may need to
step in to discourage some schemes,
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their usual role is to stand back.
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Enterprise learning requires
facilitators rather than teachers,
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and training is available on the
difference between the two roles.
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I think a teacher, traditionally,
we see as giving information,
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imparting information
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and helping students
to recognise what they need to know,
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imparting that knowledge
and absorbing it, really.
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Whereas facilitating is almost
sort of drawing that out of them
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and giving them the confidence and
encouragement to be able to do that.
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I think that's the key difference.
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(narrator) The training
is given to a group
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mostly made up
of learning assistants.
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In this first exercise
called "mill and grab"
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they reveal who would be
their dream dinner guest.
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I think the person I'd have
dinner with is Margaret Thatcher.
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- Micky Dolenz from The Monkees.
- The big star of The Monkees.
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I think my choice would be Mandela.
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(narrator)
After gaining these insights,
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the trainees then ask each other
about their communities.
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Which two
are the most important to them
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and what would they change?
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The immediate one is the family
and where you live, I would say.
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So do you include that family
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as your neighbours or...
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- Is that what you're saying?
- Yeah.
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(narrator) "Mill and grab" could
be tried with pupils themselves.
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How would that feel if you were
doing that with a group of students
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as an exercise?
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- Yeah, comfortable.
- (Sonya) Yeah?
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Did you find out something about
people you thought you knew?
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Did you find out
a little bit more about them?
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- Yeah.
- (Sonya) And about yourself?
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Some of the questions, I mean...
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I mean, we've just done
a couple of questions.
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You can carry it through according
to the theme you're talking about,
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whether it's enterprise
or citizenship.
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You can start to input questions
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and make them a little bit more
difficult and a bit more searching.
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(narrator)
Later the group creates two circles.
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The ones on the outside
are playing the part of young people
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and the ones on the inside
are in the role of facilitator.
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The youngsters
must talk about an ambition.
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They don't know
that the person opposite
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has been told
to be totally obstructive.
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..to tell your teacher
opposite you about your idea.
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What I'd like to do
is climb Kilimanjaro
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and raise
a lot of money for charity.
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I don't want to listen. No. No. No.
I do not want to listen at all.
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And move round
to the seat to your right.
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(narrator) Now the facilitators
have been told to be over the top
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in their support
of the young person's plan.
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My idea is that I would like to do
soccer camps for Sawtry community.
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Absolutely brilliant.
Where did you form the idea?
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(narrator) It's all about finding
the right balance of support.
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I think it's having
a real belief in the young people,
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and almost taking a risk,
if you like.
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Sometimes
they'll come up with some ideas,
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as in some of the exercises we've
done today, that can be way out.
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It's recognising that it isn't the
end product that is the key thing,
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whereas within education
within schools, we always look at...
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they must achieve a certain amount
to be able to achieve.
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With a facilitation
we are looking at the process
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and the skills that young people
can gain through that process.
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I think it's very interesting,
particularly the opening part,
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where you're trying to
focus on young people
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and get them thinking about
the wider aspects
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of their life and community.
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(man) You didn't
feel a bit silly doing all that?
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A little, yes.
A bit nervous, really, I suppose.
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But once you start it's not so bad.
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(man) Does it show
that there's a difference
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between teaching
and facilitation, as it's called?
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- Do you see the difference?
- I can, yes, I can.
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As you say, it's all
just sort of coming in new,
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and it's something
that I'm learning.
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So, yes, I certainly see
that it's being brought in,
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and it's something that
I've got to learn along the way.
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(narrator) It's because social
enterprise needs to be facilitated
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rather than taught
that teachers are being assured
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that it doesn't require
huge amounts of extra work.
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The teachers are in a
very different learning relationship
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and are playing, as I say,
much more of a facilitative role.
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And I think that does enable them to
give the young people more of a role
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in taking the lead and taking it on.
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(man) If they're
going off the school site,
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they have to be supervised,
there have to be risk assessments.
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That's a lot of extra work.
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There's a lot of preparation, and
I think that's the crucial thing.
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When the young people are
actually involved in the activity
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then it's a fairly light touch
that's required.
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(narrator) This is the second
and final year of the pilot schemes.
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Last year Sawtry completed
a similar number of projects,
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including one
that answered the prayers
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of the vicar of St Helen's Church
at nearby Folksworth.
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The church had no water supply -
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a nuisance for people who wanted
to leave flowers in the graveyard.
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After analysing the problem,
pupils came up with this solution.
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Suddenly, out of the blue,
the suggestion came
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that they'd like to
organise a project
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to provide a water pot
for the church.
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All the initiative came from them.
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People now can bring their flowers
without worrying about water-
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they know it's there - fresh
rainwater to put on the flowers.
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(narrator) Back at the college,
pupils start on their projects
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within the school grounds.
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The Changemakers
model of enterprise learning
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reflects the thinking of Ofsted -
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identifying a problem, followed by
planning a project to solve it
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and then the doing.
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It's the doing part
that's about to get underway.
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These pupils want to create
a conservation area
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in conjunction with
the Woodland Trust.
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Meanwhile, at a nearby flowerbed,
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the other group is getting to grips
with clearing the ground,
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and already learning how to resolve
differences and pull together.
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- Why are you taking it out?
- Its root - it's dead.
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It's not dead, it's got flipping
green things on the end.
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That means it's alive.
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Yeah, but it's not going to work, is
it, because it's just hanging out.
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Go on, pull.
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Teamwork works.
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(narrator) All plants
will be bought by the pupils
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using money raised by themselves.
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Most will rely on
traditional fundraising methods,
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such as baking or making jewellery,
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to entice fellow pupils and parents
to part with money.
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The school management would rather
pupils stuck to these means
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than rely on the ever popular
nonuniform days,
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which would be every day
if some pupils had their way.
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The conservation group
will also benefit from this machine.
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It's believed to be the only reverse
vending machine in a British school.
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Cans and bottles are crushed inside
and then sold for recycling.
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It also cuts down on litter
and saves on skips.
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The company that installed it
has close links with the school,
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and helps facilitate
the environmental projects.
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Primarily, instead of putting
that waste into the skips,
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you're actually compacting it,
reducing the use of skips,
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as Mr Stevens said -
£70 a week, £3,500 a year
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as a cost-reduction exercise.
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(narrator) Pupils are asked to write
a presentation on the environment
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as part of their projects.
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Schools are encouraged
to bring in business people
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to advise on projects
and also help with evaluation.
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Have you prepared a design
of what you intend to do?
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- We've got a little version.
- Just a mini drawing of it. OK.
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(narrator) That guidance can also
come from a variety of agencies,
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such as youth organisations,
the police and caring professions,
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and in this case the parish clerk.
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Once again,
horticulture is on the agenda.
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The Anglia in Bloom competition
is a competition, as it says,
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for the whole of Anglia.
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Sawtry have decided to take part in
this for the first time this year.
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I'm keen to find out
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what sort of things you're
interested in, what you want to do.
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It would be nice to be involved in
something that was fun.
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(man) You must be a fan of social
enterprise if it means you can...
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Yeah, absolutely. I think
everybody should work within...
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I work and live in the village.
Everybody wants it to look nice.
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(Adam) What I've really picked up is
the enthusiasm of the young people.
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The way that they've taken
what they've learnt,
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applied the lessons more generally.
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In the discussion that they had with
the clerk from the parish council,
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you really saw a sense of how
they'd gone on a journey, really,
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and started to ask
some real questions
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about their local community
and their role within it.
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(narrator) Adam Nichols
couldn't stay into the evening,
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so he didn't witness one of the
highlights of the local calendar -
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a roast-beef dinner
for all the area's pensioners,
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paid for and organised by
a village committee.
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Our students sit on
the Sawtry Feast Supper committee
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and we wanted them
not only to take responsibility,
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but to be involved
in the decisions that are made
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about what goes into
the Sawtry Feast Supper,
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which has run for years.
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And so this year,
along with our catering manager,
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they've had some influence
over how it's been organised.
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(man) So it's a good example
of how social enterprise
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can absorb existing projects,
existing activities?
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What we wanted to do was not have
social enterprise suddenly appear
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as this new initiative.
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What we want to do is say,
"What are we already involved in
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and how can we
adapt these activities
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that have involved citizenship and
a whole range of community projects,
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and build on that
as a valuable resource
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to then develop
into social enterprise?"
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The young ones, the young people,
I think they're great.
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It's nice to know
that they want to do it.
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(narrator) Whether
it involves serving a feast,
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creating a flowerbed
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or improving churchyard amenities,
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they all fill the brief
for social enterprise,
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and meet the requirements
of enterprise learning.
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It's one of the few subjects
that can satisfy the curriculum
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and a hall full of 300 pensioners
at the same time.
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Other models
of social-enterprise learning
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can be found on the website:
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Visiontext Subtitles:
Sarah Johnston
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