Neatherd High School: Students take over Norfolk organisations for a day How would you like to be the boss of a big company for a day? Last Friday 225 students from 24 different Norfolk schools had the chance to do just that. 45 organisations all over Norfolk gave the young people the chance to “look behind the scenes” and gave them a hands-on experience. From Neatherd High School six students from Year 9 were selected to take part in this exciting project. Rebekah and Reid spent the day at Community Action in Dereham where they found out what difficulties different charities are facing and tried to come up with possible solutions. “It was a very good, fun day”, says Reid, “it really helped me to think about my future.” Emily was one of two students from the whole of Norfolk to be able to help in Norwich’s Millenium library for the day. “It was so interesting to see how such a large library functions and what happens to all the books”, says Emily. Jennifer, Louise and Oliver had the chance to get involved at Norfolk County Council, the girls were part of a large group of students who did some strategic planning in the morning and had a proper debate in the Court Room in the afternoon. Meanwhile, Oliver spent his day at the Archive Centre at the Council where he first had to look for old documents and parchments in the stronghold before he got involved in making some masks for an upcoming children’s event. “The Takeover Day is getting more popular every year”, says Chris Williams, Senior Consultation and Involvement Officer at County Council, who organised the event. “We’ve had more than double the number of applications from last year, so we’ve been working non-stop to find placements for every student.” “We really enjoyed being part of this day”, so the verdict of the Neatherd students, “we can only recommend for even more companies and students to take part in the project next year.”