London City Airport Presentations

22 Mar London City Airport Presentations

London City Airport Presentations

On Wednesday 13^th March the judges from 1millionEP came in to look at the amazing work our Year 9 girls had been doing since they set them a challenge. The challenge was to create a presentation to explain how the students would fill three new units in the new terminal building of London City Airport (LCY). There were six groups in total, see below for how each of them got on:

Group 1

Iteli (9E), Suboni (9A) & Nicole (9A)

This fantastic little group (the smallest in the competition) did some outstanding work; they had a great presentation and had clearly done their research. All students spoke with confidence and Iteli even made a joke! They started off handing out mini passports from a range of countries that all included a fact about the airport or about a brand they had chosen. It all ended with a fantastic animation to summarise what they had told us. Well done!

Group 2

Jenny (9H), Ella (9H), Feba (9I) & Mel (9I)

Our second group were also full of confidence, whilst I know inside they were feeling very nervous about speaking publicly. This presentation included a wonderful group of structures that combined cardboard walls with play dough inside! My particular favourite part was the ‘play area’ that had an actual slide and a ball pit with individual multi-coloured balls! Added with the very modern choice of Amazon Supermarket – what more could you ask for!

Group 3

Adiyat (9B), Goda (9C), Asiya (9D) & Luisa (9B)

This group split their units into multiples in order to cram as many stores as possible in to their projects. They had a range of stores from Guess to Rituals to cover all of the needs of either a business or leisure traveller through the airport. Additionally, they had a great floor plan that included Lego bricks, created by Adiyat, to explain the inside of the stores including the layouts and sizes.

Group 4

Sajida (9C), Sorna (9A), Irene (9B), Precious (9B) & Aaliyah (9E)

This large group had really pulled out the stops on being creative with their choice of brands, being one of the first the judges had heard of to use Clintons cards! Alongside this they built a fantastic structure of Clintons that included cute little teddy bears! Sorna had created a fantastically detailed blueprint for the ‘food court’ area. Another great group packed full of confidence in their delivery.

Group 5

Tierney (9J), Maddie (9D), Mia (9D) & Ellie (9J – Unfortunately wasn’t at the presentation)

This group did exceptionally well to continue on as they were one member down due to illness. Without a thought they re-divided their lines and even spent the morning creating a meme to go with one of their great ideas. That idea was ‘Jet Bear’, he was a bear available in ‘Build-a-bear’ for children to buy, branded by the airport. Jet’s meme told us all to ‘be more like Jet’ which added a nice layer of humour to the whole thing! The team were well rehearsed and confident too.

Group 6

Megan (9F), Mariyah (9F), Rebekah (9G), Sammi (9G) & Presdie (9G)

Lastly, our final group stood up to the plate by handing out boarding passes attached to paper aeroplanes for all of the audience. They then opened with Megan introducing her ‘Cabin Crew’. It was clear that each student had taken a lead role on separate elements of the presentation and stepped forward to speak about this. Most importantly, the brands chosen by this group had a social and moral backing behind them, for example, Fix coffee who return 10% of their profits to the coffee farmers.

Overall, it was a privilege to see all 6 of the presentations and to hear that, in the other competing schools there had been many groups who refused to compete or where they had not put in nearly enough effort. Our JRCS Year 9 girls were outstanding! The overall winner was decided by the judges and every group received a little feedback too. The winners will be headed back to the airport on the 1^st April to present to the judges and compete against the other 9 schools.

The winners were Group 6! Well done to Megan, Mariyah, Rebekah, Presdie and Sammi who have already started work on developing their presentation and re-designing their structures.

I am forever proud of them all.

Miss Draisey

Head of Year 9