Year 11 students have begun an internship programme at the Crossroads Foundation.

A group of students is spending one afternoon a week working with the organisation in Tuen Mun, during their Enrichment & Flow time.

The seven week placement is aimed at giving them opportunities to develop life skills, gain real life experience and build on their portfolios for university and life beyond school.

The internship programme is tightly associated with our epistemic apprenticeship, with the focus not just on the immediate performance, but equally on the cumulative development that is going on behind the specific tasks. Students will be taking a significant step towards assuming responsibility for their own learning, a foretaste of the all-important self-starting and self-regulating skills that will serve them well for the rest of their lives.

The interns completed their first session this week, variously working in the Heavy Lifting, Electrical and HK Distribution departments.

It was a superb first day, and they are looking forward to taking on more responsibility over the coming weeks.