Co-Founder of Kidzplay Abbey Odunsi tells us how the organisation began and how food has played a pivotal part in her life. Learn what created a passion in Abbey for working with children and young people and how her skills as a chef have come into schools. Discover what Abbey cooked for boxing legend Mohammed Ali and what this meant to her mum an others. Listen as she shares two musical tracks that mean a lot to her.
Founder and Director of Financial Harmony Sacha Dsane enlightens us on the hurdles she overcame to get into the finance industry and her passion for bringing financial knowledge back to the community she grew up in. Learn what the musical tracks are that mean the most and what the future holds for her financial literacy programme for young people in schools and beyond.
Co-Founder of Kidzplay Patrick Marshall shares his professional background in education and his own experience of racism while he was at school. Patrick shares his ties to Enfield and his commitment to positive experiences and interventions for children and young people. Hear the track from his youth and who he dedicates the final track to.
Meet the founder and director of The Place of Dreams, Karen Allen. Discover what the transition was like for Karen starting school in Enfield having had 3 years in the Jamaican education system. Hear about her passion for young people, her dedication to bringing the Place of Dreams strapline to life – children and young people need to be seen, be safe and be celebrated.
Hear from the headteacher of Laurel Park School in Enfield, Adele Christofi. Adele describes the approaches they’ve taken to create an environment where students are happy coming to school. Find out how they have created a flexible curriculum and discover which musical artist gets both Adele’s choices.
Chris Lamb, headteacher of Enfield Grammar School describes the approach he’s taken at school, stemming from the resilience he built up from his own mixed education. Chris talks about the importance of meet and greet at the classroom door along with reading and how English literature set him up with the skill of empathy. Mindfulness is just one of the elements to his ethos of wellbeing at his comprehensive school – Chris is clear it is grammar in name only!
Programme manager of Intermisson Youth and Rudolph Walker Foundation Nana Antwi-Nyanin explains finding his own sound in music and how this helped his teenage years. Nana talks about the need to cope with being let down by young people who have been let down. He describes the process of the programmes he runs which transform young lives, hear the passion that he brings to the work he does.
Listen to Zoe Thompson’s vision for education at her all through 360-day school, Oasis Academy Hadley. Zoe explains what the ‘Did it here’ poster is, the bigger picture she wants create for students to make informed decisions and the relentless focus on ‘where we’re going to go’. Boredom at her own school gave Zoe a drive to keep expectations high and social capital for all the students she is responsible for.