SUMMER SPECIAL

🔥 FREE stuff to help career leaders, advisors & teachers…

• 📺 Free summer TV programme for years 7, 8 & 9 - The Rise Up Academy Summer School offers the perfect opportunity to get hands-on experience of working in media technology. and learn about all of the different steps that are needed to get great content onto your TV, tablet or phone.

  This experience includes:

  • Building a TV studio and creating a TV show

  • Creating eye catching graphics

  • Learning about post production and getting hands-on editing video content

  • Finding out more about what virtual production is

  • & loads more!

• 💼 Free summer business programme for years 11, 12 & 13 - Bringing together students from around the UK, the Oppidan Academy is a one-week (in August) work experience initiative for students in Year 11 - 13 to develop an in-depth insight into the world of business. The week combines projects and experiences; successful applicants will develop an understanding of business across a range of skills and practices through carefully designed interactive lectures.

• 🌞 Free Summer programme for girls & gender-diverse youth - Natwest have teamed up with Sisterhood to create a week-long summer business programme for 16-18 year olds. The programme will support youth to identify a particular social/environmental issue they would like to make better through business. Through the launchpad young people will be given the right tools, skills and knowledge on how to build a minimal viable product (or prototype) of their business idea to get it off the ground.

• ⚽️ Fun Football Centres are back this summer, UK-wide - McDonald’s are providing hundreds of free football sessions designed with our UKFA partners and delivered by our team of fully qualified coaches in over 600 locations across the UK during 2022. Our Easter Fun Football Centres in England have come to a close. We welcomed over 10,000 children to our Fun Football Centres across the UK. We look forward to welcoming you and your children to our biggest ever Summer of McDonald's Fun Football which kicks off in June.

• 🧸 National Day For Play on 3rd August - It’s been proven that play increases creativity, so tell your kids to get involved in National Day For Play, happening across the UK on and around 3rd August. Search for events near you and get playing!!

Industry of the Week… Live Music & Festivals 🎪

Every newsletter we give you information about a creative industry you & your students should know about.

About the Live Music & Festivals industry:

• 🎤 It employs hundreds of thousands: It’s a £4.5bn industry that employs over 200,000 people.

• ✈️ It’s a great sector for tourism: Music tourists contribute at least £864 million a year to the UK economy.

• 💥 It’s great for people that need variety: Most skills in the live music & festivals space are transferrable across any of the events industry (which employs 1 million people). That’s a lot of different types of events to keep you interested!

Labour Market Information:

• 📝 Here’s an amazing LMI resource and here’s an amazing structure of the industry resource that you & your students can use.

Want to know more about the latest creative industry news? Get your students to check out The ERIC App. We have loads of podcasts, videos, articles, events about the latest creative industry news. The app is free for anyone and everyone to use!

ABOUT THE ERIC APP

Our purpose at ERIC is to make sure every school in the UK is aware of how much the Creative Industries has grown in the last 20 years and how lucrative and exciting the careers available are.

Read on to find out more…

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