Employees survive the sack and interesting fax is received...

Kyle, Coran, Debbie, Eloise, Jacob and Sam survived the sack earlier this week with a result of 17 votes to 16 votes. After finding out they would not be sacked from Super Seashores these employees celebrated with high fives and smiles as they breathed a sigh of relief!

Later, a fax was sent to Roydon from the head office of Super Seashores. It read:

Should they stay, or should they go?

The employees were given another important task this week.

Breaking news reached them, from James, about the sea defences built by Debbie, Eloise, Coran, Sam, Kyle and Jacob. 3 weeks ago these members built defences to protect the coast, however their designs had failed and were now no longer protecting the coast.

Concerned faces turned to distress as James delivered the news that the rest of the employees would have to make a decision about whether these children would be sacked or not...

  

In true 'apprentice' style, everyone realised they had a tough, difficult decision to make. Each employee needed to think carefully about reasons WHY they wanted the employees to leave or stay.



The classroom turned into a meeting room as the debate began and all employees were reminded of important rules to follow whilst arguing their case. These included no shouting, no interrupting others and to raise your hand if you had something to say.

Sacking reasons included:

• that this was now a big danger to the public.
• that they had wasted a lot of Super Seashores money.
• and that the land would now be eroded.

Not sacking reasons included:

• that they were only 9 & 10 years old and desrved another chance.
• that everyone makes mistakes.
• and that if they were up for the sack this time, who's to say James and Jack won't contact them next week with more employees to sack!

All employees received a voting slip and made their choice. Many worried, anxious employees looked on as the votes were counted and verified.

The results of the vote will follow...

Clever commercials

These employees have also been promoted:

Caitlin, Ruby, Kyle and George (camera man) for their realistic arcade called 'Gameworld'.

Leo, Matthew, Aimee and Megan R for their advert trying to get the public down the 'Malm pier'

Sofia, Mae, William and Callum (camera man) thanks to their advert for 'SMWC Ice cream'.

Aidan, Kelly, Megan G and Nathan C (camera man) for their strange but clever 'Crazy arcade'.

Promotions galore, the latest task and an email from the directors!

They were many children this week that received promotions.  A batch of employees gained promotions due to their email writing skills. Those employees have also been emailed back. A further group collected promotions because of their useful poster adverts on beach huts and piers.





The next task which was given to do over the weekend, was to create a new logo and slogan for the company as the directors felt the company needed a little 'face-lift'.

Many employees were also left intrigued by what next weeks 'breaking news' might be...

We need adverts and commercials!

The latest group of Super Seashores employees were given promotions this week. These included Aimee, Caitlin, Aidan, Megan R, Megan G and Sarah and Mollie. Congratulations!

Sam and Debbie's hard work and dedication have been noticed by the directors and both employees have now received a gold membership. Congratulations!!

All employees put together some great designs and ideas for beach facilities. A lot included beach hut hire, lifeguard huts, jet ski hire and ice cream stalls.

The next task was told to all the employees and was met with some concerned faces. The company is in desperate need of advertising.

At present it has no posters, leaflets or television commercials to let the public know what is on offer in these coastal areas. All employees have been given the important task of creating, designing, producing and recording adverts!

Good luck!

Employee gains silver promotion!

An employee of Super Seashores has gained a promotion due to his smart thinking and inventive idea.

George went away during the week and whilst at home constructed a prototype model of his sea defense. "The model was made using tin foil (to act as strong, hard metal) and wrapped inside are stones (to act as large boulders)", George said.



The model, shown by George has earnt him a silver membership. Company directors James and Jack stated: "We congratulate George on his idea and his hard work. Maybe it's something we can build on our new beach!".

New tasks and promotions from Super Seashores!

The class received their second task from super seashores yesterday and some children got a silver promotion because they had the best ideas of sea defences. All employees also have the opportunity to gain a promotion to become a gold member.
(Aimee Year 5)

    

Coran, Debbie, Sam, Kyle, Jacob and Eloise got a promotion and received a silver membership. Company director James informed the lucky 6 of their promotion and that their work was so good that Jack was currently on the coast building it.

The class was then asked by James to complete another important task for Super Seashores. This time the company had bought some coast in Suffolk but it had no facilities to attract people.




All employees brainstormed their ideas then went away to design beach huts, toilets, piers and lifeguard stations that could all be built on the beach.

The results of this task will follow shortly.....

Super Seashores

The class have been employed by Super Seashores!

They were presented with membership cards and have received their first task - to design sea defences for an area of coast in Norfolk.



Company directors James and Jack recorded their first message to 5/4 and explained that the company doesn't have a lot of money. However the new company employees need to choose some suitable sea defenses and explain why they have chosen them!

In groups, the employees have been frantically designing groynes, sea walls, gabions and revetments in a bid to gain a promotion.

Results of this task with be posted by the company directors shortly...

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside!

We travelled to the East coast this week to study the coast, erosion and the town of Southwold. We began our visit by sketching and discussing the erosion that's occurring at the North end of the beach.
We talked about the houses that are at risk and the sea walls and groynes that are in place. Aimee said "it is interesting to see that the sea walls stop where the edge of the town ends and some houses are not going to be there for long! I think this is because of the erosion and it's too expensive to keep building sea walls".


As we walked South along the beach we noticed all the different coloured each huts. Each one had a different name. Debbie's favourite was 'Ceez ruff', Callum's favourite was 'O 2 B @ C', Eloise's favourite was 'Cloud 9'.

When we arrived at the pier we sat for lunch. Some of us decided to test the temperature of the water and go for a paddle. It...was... very... cold...!

However Sofia, Mae, Holly and Megan made the most of it!


After our lunch we looked at the wooden groynes that have been put in place and the concrete sea walls. We also noticed how some of the rocks had got smoother as they rolled about in the sea.


Our afternoon included a survey of the shops in Southwold and a questionnaire which we asked to 100 members of the public.

We were very thankful the weather stayed warm!

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