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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

End of the workshops organised by Mosaic

Today was the last day of the successful workshops organised by Mosaic with The Common Purpose for our selected children at Brondesbury College.

Adel Antabli, Jamal Nokoe, Sideek Tawil, Mohammad Zia with Omar Mohamed and Adam Aziz will be writing each one a short chapter about those 3 days.

We will keep you posted.

Don't miss it, visit our blog shortly.

PTA team

Friday, June 25, 2010

"Your Turn Programme" DAY 3 - 29th June 2010 at TEACH FIRST

Teach First is a powerful social change initiative aimed at tackling educational disadvantage in challenging schools around the UK. They are an independent charity launched in 2002 to bring excellent teachers into challenged secondary schools across the UK.

Their mission is to address educational disadvantage by transforming exceptional graduates into effective, inspirational teachers and leaders in all Fields.Recruits, trains, places and supports 500-600 exceptional teachers per year who can make a real difference in the most challenged secondary schools throughout London, The north West, Yorkshire, and the East and the West Midlands. Their aims is to build a new generation of leaders committed to advancing education, inside or outside of the classroom, through the Teach First Ambassador Movement.

Adel Antabli, Jamal Nokoe, Sideek Tawil, Mohammad Zia with Omar Mohamed and Adam Aziz's Day3 - AGENDA: "Making the difference"

1- Introduction to the day and the theme of campaigning, Joseph Ellison, Senior Officer
2- What makes a good campaign? By Emma Moore, Founder, Pink Stinks
3- Designing your campaigns with advisors from PricewaterhouseCoopers
4- Meet the Experts - Critique and evaluation of campaigns: Panel of experts:
Joanne Fearn, Senior Policy Advisor, The cabinet Office
Stuart Brown, Head of Events, British Film Institute
A member of the Leadership team of UNLtd

5- Preparing proposal and precise campaign details with experts
6- Present Campaigns
7- Feedback from advisors
8- Review of the programme
9- Celebration and certificates

PTA will keep you posted for this 3rd day of workshop. We will post a blog with all the details and results.

Thank you for supporting brondesbury college for boys.

PTA Team

"Your Turn Programme" DAY 1 and DAY 2 - 24th/25th June 2010

So far two days of workshop had passed and the feedback that PTA had is excellent, our children had worked very hard and had impressed the hosts and the other children from other schools.

Still to go DAY 3.

Congratulations to all at Brondesbury College for Boys.

PTA Team

DAY 2 - 25th June 2010 at INTO University Parnerships

Adel Antabli, Jamal Nokoe, Sideek Tawil, Mohammad Zia with Omar Mohamed and Adam Aziz has done very well in Day 1 "Being a Leader"

This day 2 is hosted by INTO University Partnerships,
which is a rapidly growing network of university-based study centres, offering new and higher quality standards of preparation for undergraduate and postgraduate study in the UK and US. Combining the resources of leading universities with major independent investment, INTO Centres deliver a world-class educational and cultural experience for international students, with fast, effective and assured progression to university degree courses.

Meridian is Common Purpose's personalized course for senior London Leaders. On Meridian, a diverse group of participants from the private, public and not-for-profit sectors will investigate live issues in the London community, visit small business corporations and prisons, and trade leadership experiences and challenges with leaders who carry real -life responsibilities from a variety of fields and contexts.

During the day 2, the children will be joined by 25 Meridian participants, who are senior leaders in organisations such: Premier Inn, London Borough of Islington, Children Services, Ministry of Defence, London Underground, Department of Health, NHS, Association of Chief Police Officers, Childreach International and many more.

Day 2 Agenda: POWER
1- Introduction to the day
2- Common Purpose across the generations? Meridian and Your Turn Meet
3- The curfew Debate with Meridian Senior Leaders
4- Working Break
5- Group Debrief
6- Who has the power?
7- Mappin my London
8- Introduction to campaigning with Erin Turner, Marketing and Events Administrator, and Sheila McKechnie, fondations.

Very Impressive, children at Brondesbury College for Boys

"Your Turn Programme" DAY 1 - 24th June 2010 German Gymnasium

Adel Antabli, Jamal Nokoe, Sideek Tawil, Mohammad Zia with Omar Mohamed and Adam Aziz had started DAY 1 of the "Your Turn Programme"
"German Gymnasium" and Argent have hosted this day
Background Information: ARgent is one of the UK's most respected property development companies. Argent are a leading practitioner of City Centre regeneraton and they focus on just a few, exceptional schemes at any one time and are currently developing in London, Birmingham, Manchester and South Wales.
AGENDA for the day:

1- Skills check
2- Introduction to the regeneraton work at Kings Cross area from Anne Hughes, General Manager of the Marketing Suite, German Gymnasium
3- What Makes a good Leader?
4- Ground Rules
5- Effective questioning, Sarah McCrum, Director and Founder, eRejuvenation
6- Questioning session: practice of their skills
7- The trading game
8- Working break#
9- Evaluation

Children were working in groups and some of them had won prices with their work and answers.

Well Done!!!!

Common Purpose "Your Turn"Programme" had selected children from Brondesbury College

Our children had been selected by MOSAIC to join the COMMON PURPOSE "YOUR TURN PROGRAMME". Once again Adel Antabli, Jamal Nokoe, Sideek Tawil, Mohammad Zia with Omar Mohamed and Adam Aziz had been offered this great opportunity of 3 days workshop at different location in London.

"COMMON PURPOSE" is an International Leadership Development Organisation,
which works with the world's top leaders to make them better at what they do and to help them to change the city and the world.

"YOUR TURN" is a programme for young leaders and Common Purpose works really hard to meet with teachers across London to find the best young people to benefit from it. These young people are selected because, Common Purpose and their teachers, believe that they have the potential to be the leaders in their city and the world in the future.

JUST 135 young people from across London get successfully accepted
to attend the programme each year. We should be really proud of our children and Brondesbury College tuitions.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

HSBC Trading Bank in Canary Wharf with pictures





As mentioned in the previous blog, 4 of our children Adel Antabli, Jamal Nokoe, Sideek Tawil and Mohammad Zia Adnan have been selected to be part, once again of the Mosaic Stars Leadership Programme this academic year. This time the trip is to HSBC Trading Bank in Canary Wharf,with our special science teacher, Mr. Ali.

As mentioned in the previous trip blog, Mosaic founded by HRH The prince of Wales, works towards an integrated and thriving society where all individuals regardless of background, are supported in realizing their potential.

Please see the pictures. Well done Brondesbury College!!!