Dwr-Y-Felin Finance and Entrepreneurship Day

Steam Powered Stories and Learn and Grow were busy ensuring What You Say Counts! last week in Dwr-Y-Felin Comprehensive school, Neath, where over 250 year ten students left school on Monday 16th June feeling confident about not only numeracy but their futures in the workplace.

 

Steam Powered Stories’ vision is to obliterate the belief that numeracy is an equation that cannot be solved, and through workshop-based learning, links are created between students and employers to promote literacy, numeracy and communication skills. Ensuring the “What you say counts!” government funded project is recognisable and therefore successful, Steam Powered Stories in association with Learn and Grow, administered a Finance and Entrepreneurship day in Dwr-Y-Felin this week aiming to highlight the importance of numeracy within the workplace, inspiring our future workforce by bringing numbers to life.

 

 

Maxine Day, qualified hairdresser, Pauline Clay, Independent Finance Advisor from Dragon Financial Services, Stephen Waldron from Stephen Waldron Architecture, Richard Dare, Credit Union representative, Go-kart entrepreneurs Go-Kart Tech, Neath Health Board, Fitness Instructor, Lee, Alan Anthony, Fireman, and JanRo’s own John, Inspirational Speaker, headed to Dwr-Y-Felin to work alongside pupils to provide an insight into how numeracy is applied in every job, whether one is a fireman, a go-kart specialist, or a fitness instructor.

 

 

Students interacted with each employer by doing tasks that the employer would undertake in their day-to-day working lives; some students learnt how to change a tire of a go-kart under time limitations, others were informed of the mathematical skills needed to be a successful hairdresser by having to know angles and dimensions to cut hair properly.

 

By the end of the workshop, the year ten students felt confident in the belief that they can succeed in maths. One pupil stated the day was an “eye-opener”, others appeared to be in awe of how maths skills are needed in every area of the workplace, regardless of what profession someone works in; it was clear that the finance and entrepreneurship day provided the future generation with some much needed inspiration and assurance that everyone can obliterate the belief that maths is difficult, that maths is not needed in life.

 

 

 

If you require any information about Steam Powered Stories and the workshops we run, feel free to contact JanRo Ltd directly by dialling 01685 872385, sending Hayley, Steam Powered Stories’ Business Counts Co-ordinator an email on janro.hayley@gmail.com, or through our Facebook and Twitter pages.

 

Thanks for reading! Visit Steam Powered Stories ‘What You Say Counts!’ blog next Wednesday for more details on the project and for some fun maths activities.