NATIONAL  HUB !

Fifty-one hub schools scattered across the country, spokes radiating outward in all directions to embrace nearly two hundred more – and just five National Network Hubs, of which Flegg High is now one.

This is the vision of the Schools’ Enterprise Education Network (S’EEN for short), whose role is to provide continuous professional development to all specialist Business and Enterprise Colleges in England.  Hub schools create and support  local networks, but the National Hubs each focus on a key aspect of the project and their influence is projected nationwide.  Our new status reflects well on Flegg’s progress in enterprise education, and brings with it generous funding and extensive responsibilities.

The other four National Hubs are situated in Bolton, Sherborne, Bath and Bradford.  Their specific briefs are collaborative working, networks in a rural context, leadership, and developing a student assessment tool.

Our particular function as a National Hub School will be to encourage professional development through the provision of staff training models.  Flegg’s Peer Counselling Scheme, which involves our pupils in the actual training of counsellors from other schools, caught S’EEN’s attention; but the main areas of interest at present are our Fair Play Conference, whose third session takes place at Carrow Road on the 16th June, and the link with Kenya’s Starehe Boys’ Centre, which will be cemented shortly through a week-long visit by 50 Flegg High staff and pupils.  With its emphasis on student leadership and responsibility and its Voluntary Service Scheme which virtually guarantees employment to school leavers, Starehe is perhaps the original Business and Enterprise College.  We shall be hearing much more about the Centre, and about our work as a National Hub School, in the very near future.