One of the county’s leading manufacturers is showcasing its commitment to its home town by agreeing a partnership with a high profile national charity which will allow it to share its own business knowledge and skills with a local secondary school.
Bridgnorth Aluminium has signed up to become a dedicated partner of ‘Business in the Community’, an initiative set up by HRH Prince of Wales. As part of the project, the organisation has teamed up with Bridgnorth Endowed School which will see it not only provide advice and guidance about business to students, but also share its business management systems with the school’s management staff.
Simon MacVicker, Managing Director at Bridgnorth Aluminium, explained: “We’re thrilled to have signed up to this exciting initiative alongside Bridgnorth Endowed School. Our work with the school will see us actively involved in sharing information with their students about the link between academic studies and work, including the current demand for specific skills, and what we expect employers to be looking for using our first-hand knowledge.”
According to Simon, the need for youngsters to explore STEM courses (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is greater than ever, with these core subjects set to play a pivotal part in the recruitment of individuals in the years to come.
“Using a variety of methods, we aim to work closely with staff at Bridgnorth Endowed School to motivate, inspire, and enthuse their students, and we’ll be sharing experience directly from our own younger employees, including those who have joined us as a result of completing apprenticeship programmes and graduate schemes.”
Bridgnorth Aluminium’s partnership with Business in the Community will also help the school by building awareness of how it is operating as an organisation, rather than just purely in terms of exam results and Ofsted reports. The company will also be offering tours of its own facilities to give teachers the chance to see how the curriculum can be linked to real world activities in manufacturing.
“We’ll also be supporting the school itself by sharing a range of management procedures, communication, leadership and motivation skills, which will be an opportunity for the school’s leadership to compare and contrast their approach to managing the school, with our approach to managing in an industrial setting. It’s a very exciting opportunity and we’re very much looking forward to working with Bridgnorth Endowed School in the months and years to come,” Simon concluded.
Phil Loveday, Headteacher at Bridgnorth Endowed Headteacher, added: “We’re really positive about working with Bridgnorth Aluminium – we have worked with the company for many years, giving design technology students the opportunity to see theory in practice. To work with such an important local company is great for both our students and staff, and this new scheme will support our drive to help develop the engineers of tomorrow.”
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