Head's Newsletter 1 April 2022

CAREERS DAY

On the 21st March, Year 10 had the wonderful opportunity to take part in an interactive Careers Day with the focus of the day being on developing skills that employers value. We were working on 8 in particular, those being speaking, listening, thinking positively, aiming high, teamwork, leadership, creativity and problem solving. The day started with a quick assembly on what the plan was for the day with focus on the different skills and what each skill compiled of, as well as why it was important. After this, we went with our forms into different rooms to do some careers research. We heard 3 minute interviews from different Tiffin alumni and what careers they decided to pursue, from photographers to journalists. These were incredibly inspiring videos showing the routes into different careers and what the day - to - day life of people in different careers is. From this, we were able to do an online career quiz to give us ideas as to what different types of careers could be out there that we had not heard of before. This created a lot of discussion in the room as to what different careers suited people!

Following on from this, we had a short break before going to our choice of activities, kindly put on by BP and Unilever. The BP game was a game which simulated the stock market, with players put into teams of 6 and different fictional scenarios were presented which affected the price of one barrel of oil, and teams needed to buy and sell the oil depending on whether we thought that the price would go up or down: the winning team was the team that made the most profit. This game worked on teamwork, leadership and aiming high as it was vital to work as a team with a clear plan and the winning teams were the ones who took some risks to aim to get a large amount of profit even if sometimes it didn ’ t work, as the more barrels of oil that were bought the bigger