MAN: St. Paul’s Way Trust School is located on a street in East London called St. Paul’s Way.
Speaker & screen text: Grahame Price, Headteacher, St. Paul's Way Trust School
Price: East London is generally regarded as a culturally rich neighbourhood, but for a number of years, the school here was not doing very well.
Speaker & screen text: Lord Andrew Mawson, St. Paul's Way Trust School
Mawson: So we thought, why don’t we create an entrepreneurial culture in which the 250 children here today begin to have aspirations about their life and their careers?
On screen: St. Paul's Way Trust School and J.P. Morgan
Mawson: We’ve turned around a school and started to build relationships between the school, the business people. We brought it together.
Speaker & screen text: Janet Iley, Director of Enterprise and Employability, St. Paul's Way Trust School
Iley: We’ve got children meeting all sorts of people in different businesses and having all sorts of experiences that they wouldn’t otherwise have had.
Price: We were delighted when J.P. Morgan wanted to be one of those organisations.
Speaker & screen text: Emmanuelle Mathey, J.P. Morgan
Mathey: J.P. does an amazing job having all these programmes. Giving J.P. Morgan employees the ability to contribute to the kids, I think it’s a kind of double positive really. It’s nice to be part of something that matters.
Iley: With J.P. Morgan, we have work-related learning programmes. We’ve done paid internships during the summer holidays. We’ve also had children who have been specially mentored by J.P. Morgan employees.
Speaker & screen text: Sabina, Student, St. Paul's Way trust School
Sabina: We were having conversations, mature, formal conversations with the J.P. Morgan team working with us. It was really inspiring, and I’m going to be doing an internship with them next week.
Mathey: The main difference you can see during the year is their ability to express themself in a clear manner and to really articulate their belief in themself. We’ve just given them a few soft skills-- CV building, networking. These simple things that will help them get where they want to be.
Iley: It is a whole different level of learning, and it’s giving them opportunities to get those jobs that they wouldn’t have otherwise been able to get.
Mathey: What’s really important for the community is to see these kids going out and achieving things. When one kid does something, then 50 kids will get more ideas and a feeling that they can achieve anything.
Mawson: There is a sense of opportunity here, appearing in East London. There’s a whole new generation coming forward.
Mathey: These are great kids, and you just want to make sure they don’t miss out on an opportunity.
