MORE than 300 pupils have been involved in a flagship Luton company’s learning experience.
Vauxhall has recently taken its Vans R Us event to Putteridge High School, in Putteridge Road, Luton.
More than 100 eleven and 12 year olds worked with Vauxhall’s undergraduates to create their own manufacturing plants.
Trevor Abrahams, people involvement and training coordinator at Vauxhall’s Luton van plant, said the scheme helps the company get to know the sorts of groups that its future apprentices come from.
He said: “The Vans R Us programme is a win-win situation, the pupils get an engaging insight into manufacturing and we get to work with the sort of group that our future apprentices and undergraduates will come from.”
The one day event, designed by Vauxhall Undergraduates, sees pupils forming a company, planning their own factory and creating a marketing campaign.
Mary Jankiewicz, careers and work related learning advisor at the school, said: “We are incredibly grateful to the company for providing our students with a notion of real world business.”