Top employers have been teaming up with Year 11 students from the Stockland Green School as part of the academy’s annual Practice Interview Day.  Community spirited employers visited the school this week to support students in developing their interviewing skills and help build their aspirations for the future.  

Aston University will become the first university to offer its undergraduate students training in how climate change impacts businesses and society, when it hosts Carbon Week 2015 in the first week of November. In a pioneering move, the University will dedicate a week of teaching for all second year undergraduates, across all its schools, to the importance of understanding the challenge of climate change and the requirements of a low carbon economy.

A plan setting out the priorities for the city’s youth justice service and reviewing the previous year’s performance is to be presented to cabinet. Birmingham has the lowest re-offending rate of all core cities, with an average of 0.92 re-offences, and is below the national average of 1.14. The Birmingham Youth Justice Plan 2015/16 shows that the city is maintaining good performance against the three national youth justice indicators: reducing first time entrants; reducing re-offending; reducing the use of custody.

Pupils from five Midland primary schools are poised to become recording artists after rock legend Rick Wakeman acclaimed their performances in the finals of the inaugural DriveSafe & StaySafe Road Safety Song Contest. The former Yes keyboardist and TV personality judged the safety awareness event on behalf of Birmingham road safety charity DriveSafe & StaySafe in front of scores of schoolchildren, teachers and supporters at Hampton Manor in Solihull.

Award-winning education charity Achievement for All has teamed up with Peters Books & Furniture to launch the One Million Minutes reading challenge across the West Midlands, with one triumphant class winning a brand new reading corner for their school worth over £1,000. Primary school classes are being asked to read for as many minutes as they can in just one week, between Wednesday 11^th November – Wednesday 18^th November 2015.

Primary school children chose Minions as their ideal walk-to-school companions in a poll commissioned by Living Streets, the UK charity for everyday walking, released to celebrate International Walk to School Month. The children, aged 8 to 11, were asked to choose from a list of 10 people or characters, including Usain Bolt, Doctor Who, Elsa from Frozen, Spongebob Squarepants, Horrid Henry, Wimpy Kid and Ed Sheeran.