Epinay School welcomes Hong Kong delegation

Shields Gazette

South Shields' Epinay School was welcomed 45 delegates from Hong Kong. The visit allowed them to learn about careers education and guidance for young people with SEND.

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00:00It was through Kate Lam, our assistant head, she's been working with the Northeast Combined

00:05Authority now for a considerable number of years and there was an opportunity to show

00:1045 delegates from Hong Kong around the school and talk about our curriculum offer but more around

00:17gear around careers education and how we try and prepare our young people for the next steps.

00:24So that's really kind of what this afternoon was about. It's a really proud day for the school

00:28really and you know I'm not going to pretend that I've had a major part in this because it's been

00:35done by the team and more so Kate Lam and our connections advisors Hayley and Ashley Donnelly.

00:41So to kind of be recognized is really important. Our full ethos is about preparing young people to

00:47be happy, confident, independent for adulthood and so just to share how we do that from the

00:54youngest ages in terms of our reception and year one children all the way through to sixth form

01:00is really quite nice and I think in our presentation you know we showed how a group of

01:05our kind of four or five year olds who are working with the ambulance service yesterday in a real

01:10life ambulance and getting to know what a uniform looks like and what the blue flashy lights are

01:15that early steps of employability and find out what types of employment you can have

01:21to children in sixth form actually doing real life placements whether it be in aerospace or

01:27or a dog's home or in a retail industry. It really kind of for me shows the impact of what we're

01:35doing and just threading careers education through every phase of school really just

01:41shows how impactful it is. Thanks to everyone that's put us where we are today and a big thank

01:48you to everyone from Hong Kong that visited and it'd be lovely one of the things that we've kind

01:53of talked about this afternoon is to keep in touch and hopefully have teams calls between

01:57special schools in Hong Kong and ourselves so we can establish a new relationship with new friends.

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