SENIOR SCHOOL
Students driving the development of innovative
Student Business Centre
A group of Senior School students who are completing their Certificate IV
in Business Studies are working with Mr Mike Burbridge, the School’s VET
Co-ordinator, on a proposal to create a Student Business Centre. The students have
prepared detailed project plans for the development of the Business Centre and
recently presented their ideas to the School’s Strategic Leadership Team towards
the end of the term. The students detail their hopes and plans below.
Elliot Wilkinson (12Sc),
Woodrow McKechnie (12Ha)
and Jack Stringer (12Wb)
As Year 12 students of Guildford
Grammar School, we have been thinking
about our legacy and what we want to be
remembered for when we leave the School
at the end of the year. We have decided
that we want our legacy to be a Student
Business Centre that will help students
prepare for entering the workforce.
If approved, the Student Business Centre
(SBC) will be a modern learning and
working centre for students, staff, parents
and the community to utilise to gain
experience in a business workplace and
receive support from others. Our aim is for
the Centre to help future generations to
learn from others and gain valuable business
experience and knowledge.
We propose that the Student Business
Centre be located in the Medical Centre,
once the medical staff have moved into the
new boarding house. Our research leads
us to believe that this will be the most
beneficial location, as it is easily accessible,
it is separate to the School and it has
several rooms that can be used for different
purposes.
There are many benefits for the School in
developing the Student Business Centre,
including the ability to have volunteers
located there to work for local businesses.
It has the potential to become a groundbreaking
new learning environment for
students and teachers alike, unlike anything
we have heard of in any other school.
The Student Business Centre will put
Guildford Grammar School ahead of all other
Perth schools in preparing their students for
the future. The modern learning centre is
designed to equip students to work in the
real world, giving them real life experience
and access to opportunities other schools are
unable to provide.
This concept is something that is close to
our heart and we have developed it with the
students in mind. We plan to showcase it as
an example of what students can do with a
good plan, goals, and passion. We want to
show that we are not just students; we are
the entrepreneurs of the future.
The Student Business Centre will become
the modern hub for Guildford Grammar
School students to go forward in their
learning and create new opportunities that
will benefit them going forward in life. This
is what our School prides itself on and is the
basis of our School motto - “Go Forward”.
We hope we will have the Student Business
Centre up and running by Term 1, 2021.
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