KNGS wins Business Enterprise Challenge
Year 13 Students from Kings Norton Girls’ School and Sixth Form scooped the top prize at The Business Enterprise Challenge in association with St Marys Hospice and Barclays, Snow Hill after raising an extraordinary total of £2143.18, almost half of the total £4472.13 raised by all schools taking part.
In addition, the girls from KNGS also took home the Judi Millward Award (named after the current President of St Marys Hospice) for the quality of their strategic planning.
Over the past 6 months students from Secondary Schools and 6th Forms across Birmingham have competed to raise the most funds for St Marys’ Hospice. The programme provided excellent opportunity for A Level Business Studies students to work with mentors from Barclays, Snow Hill and to develop their business acumen in a competitive environment.
Year 13 student in the role of Communications Co-ordinator, Lauren Venables said, “We visited the hospice in December, at around the halfway point in the competition and seeing where the funds would eventually go really inspired us and pushed us to raise as much money as possible.”
Some of the imaginative events hosted by the team from KNGS included a whole school talent show, quiz night, Year 7 disco, and fun themed non-uniform days, including a Christmas Jumper Day and PJ’s Day.
Year 13 student and Team Leader for the project Monica Gregory added, “We are so thankful for all the support we had from the rest of the school, especially from pupils in the lower years. We could not have raised so much without them.”
Associate Assistant Headteacher Cassandra Gray who led the project at KNGS said, “I’m very proud of the students who took part, they worked extremely hard and were dedicated from start to finish. They managed to successfully juggle their planning and fundraising efforts with their 6th form commitments, which in year 13 are many. I’m particularly proud of how they brought the entire school community together with their fundraising activities, including all year groups, parents, staff and governors.”