Drew Owen Interview

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What do you want me to go for?

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The importance of the BTEC.

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What it actually offers the kids.

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So we offer a vocational

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pathway for students who maybe find the traditional pathway that little

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bit more stressful when it comes to things like examinations.

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Their skills might be more focused on the hands -on approach.

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So we offer subjects like business studies.

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business studies travel and tourism hospitality we

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offer art the what's

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the other one media media and performing arts and sport

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so much more of the kind of

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practical subjects where you can properly get involved with the actions and

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things like that so for our hospitality for example the students spend an awful lot of time

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learning how to deliver fantastic dishes but also how to create

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fantastic customer service experiences for people and things like that which

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kind of really builds those soft skills so that they can enter not only upper

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higher education but also those work skills straight

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away

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if they prefer and do the kids get an opportunity to go out into the workspace

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like work experience yes they do we have a each unit each

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subject has a unit that is specifically dedicated to a work experience

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element so for the travel and tourism one they go to we just had

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students go to the which hilton was it the hilton

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hotel that students went to um hilton suites um

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we had one student go into

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I'm with you on this.

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I forget everything.

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We've really put you on this.

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Just nail all of these now.

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Commercial retail.

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Commercial retail in...

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What's it called when you're selling properties and things?

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Real estate.

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So commercial real estate for hotels,

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which was pretty cool,

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and warehouses.

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Two students went to...

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hotels one student went to a sports marketing company

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with the sports units then when we do the things when we create the

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live work experiences we get the business students when it comes to their marketing events and things

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like that whenever we're doing events in school they actually support the marketing team downstairs that

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we have and when we've got those kind of um open evenings

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parents evenings that kind of thing we get the hospitality students to kind of make volubons

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and so and this is all part of their actual assessment not just

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like we're doing it because it's free labor or anything like that it's

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actually like this is you're being assessed on this of course how you're delivering that

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customer service is what you're going to be assessed on and we use that as part

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of our process when it comes to the sports and things like that part of the

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assessment is how well you play sports so you're videoed on how well you play

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sports how well you work as a team how well you work as a and the same for performance

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art

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performing arts and things like that.

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They help say for the junior school sports day would

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they help organize it with the team here?

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They do help out with rotational squats and so when we're doing into

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house competitions between the houses house events the students for sport

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actually get involved in organizing that which is pretty wonderful as well.

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And what about do you do the Duke of Edinburgh here things like that there so how would

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you work you know I know

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from past experience,

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do they do it in -house,

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their training, with the junior skills,

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or do they have to do it all outside,

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the additional?

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No, so we do the junior Duke,

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in terms of the program,

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and that is actually provided within the school as part of the ECA program,

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but also within the curriculum time as well,

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so again, even at that stage,

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it's very independent.

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And then obviously,

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we then do the D of E proper,

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at the International Award site,

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from Year 10.

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Silver and then into gold.

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Yeah.

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So expeditions.

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This year exposition is actually local,

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so we're at Fujairah.

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In terms of next year we are looking in terms of international,

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between two,

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possibly Nepal or the other which I'm very keen on is actually to

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Borneo in terms of Borneo and Malaysia.

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Would you be nominating yourself to go on that one?

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Possibly,

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yeah. I think so.

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I'll put you forward for that Father's Day and all that.

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But this is also a job for teachers,

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so we teach across from each other.

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We need to share our thoughts.

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We do.

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It's brilliant.

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Can I just ask you about your experience in school as a male when you were going

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through the ranks?

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Did you have a positive teacher?

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Did you notice the difference between male and female in terms of teachers?

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Because it's really nice to see a positive male teacher.

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I'd say so.

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I think so.

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I think that's why the whole reason I'm a geography teacher is because my geography teacher was fantastic.

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A man.

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Mr.

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Ty.

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Mr.

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Ty. You remember the inspiration.

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he's he actually so he was as inspirational or

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so inspirational enough that while I was doing my teacher training I actually went back to the school I was at

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and had him as a mentor for a short period which is great and then when I moved into

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my real job and started teaching to get paid for teaching he actually came in to help

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me with a set of coursework so it was nice having that kind of positive

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role model there and hopefully that's what I am to our students and and

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that's what I want to make sure that you know we've got

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exactly that's that's the reason that we do what we do and one of our um our sixth

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form year 13 sixth form student not male but is looking

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to go into the teaching world as a geography teacher

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And that's my second question really.

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How do you ensure that you're a positive role model day to day?

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Day to day?

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Just being as positive as possible.

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I'm a pretty smiley guy.

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I try and like,

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you know,

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you get some teachers who will chalk and talk.

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We like to call it chalk and talk and they'll stand at the front and it's kind of like...

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I think it's more like a storytelling kind of thing.

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So if you're kind of good at telling stories or you're good at,

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you know,

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if you don't mess up your words as much as I do all the time.

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It's about connection and how do you build that connection?

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I think there's that,

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but also when it comes to like...

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just being around all the time so you'll see I don't really sit in a classroom I

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sit out in the corridor so when students are in and out they see me all the time

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I'm part of the community by just being around as much as I

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can so my students are actually in that room right now taking their geography exam

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the moment they come out they're gonna see me I'm gonna be there like how did it go like

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this is it's kind of like just being like

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want feeling like they're your little babies and you just want to look after them and make sure I think

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but that comes from like a personal thing not just not just

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process yeah it's more like do

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we have the right people in the building like you'll see that all our teachers are out on the corridors and

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I think just

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Just that,

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like having these massive corridors and having a kind of community where we can all sit and do that.

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Everyone's there.

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No one feels weird that you're sat in the corridor doing your work.

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No. It's more than that,

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you're doing your work and students can see that you're focused and that you're working on a task but you're

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still approachable and they're important in life.

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That's it,

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but then also whenever you get asked to do things like this now,

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have a conversation,

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just stop.

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You wish you were in a classroom.

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No,

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no, no,

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no, no, no.

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It's the opposite though.

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Brian will walk past and say,

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oh, you know, there's,

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like, hi,

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we've had tours in this morning.

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And the first thing that happened on the tour was Miss McGuckin walked past and said,

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hi, Mr.

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Erin, how are you?

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Like, there's a massive group of people walking by.

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It's just there, it creates that nice feeling.

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And just being part of that,

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being approachable,

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being out there.

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So that's how I do it.

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And Mr.

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Hallwell's great at that as well.

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Because his door's always open and things like that.

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Open door,

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yeah. You done it?

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Have you done it?

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You still have my question?

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It's good.

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Thank you so much.

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Sorry to interrupt you.

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S… Speaker 1 (Drew Owen Interview)

No, no, no problem.

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S… Speaker 4 (Drew Owen Interview)

Thank you for your time.

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S… Speaker 2 (Drew Owen Interview)

You'll stop me licking the wrapper.

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