London City Airport has supported the design and print of the 2008 St. Luke’s Primary School Poetry Anthology.  This project chimes with the airport’s focus on basic skills and enables local young people to distribute their excellent work to a wide audience. To view the poetry, click the book cover to the right.

This new (2010) Plane Business education programme has been developed by LCA in partnership with Newham Education Business Partnership (EBP) as a case study to give local students an insight into our business, markets and passengers.

The aim of this resource is to introduce year nine students to the concepts of business and trade, using London City Airport as a vehicle. It could also be used as a starter activity for GCSE Business Studies students.

The resource meets parts of the following: KS3 Curriculum Outcomes, elements for PHSEE (economic wellbeing), 11-19 Work Related Learning Framework, Personal Learning and Thinking Skills, and Literacy objectives.

Plane Business consists of a series of presentations and activities that will reinforce and check students’ learning in the following subject areas:

• Introduction to London City Airport, including statistics and general information    (delivered by London City Airport personnel)
• Why use London City Airport? Introduction to Europe and its main cities
• Introduction to Business Studies and Trade
• International Trade, Currency and Exchange Rates
• Communication and Modern Foreign Languages
• Research & Presentation Project

Students were asked to develop ideal solutions to encourage staff to use more sustainable modes of transport to travel to and from work.  With these new and exciting initiatives London City Airport then had to consider which ideas they would like to incorporate into the work place.  

Airport Insight Travel and Tourism

As part of its Education Excellence programme, the Airport with the Travel and Tourism Diploma Organisation has produced eight short films covering various topics across the business to offer an insight into its operation, strategy and ethos. Click here to see more. 

In addition to a £2,000 annual grant and a personal Airport Management Mentor, students also benefit from paid work experience each year in departments around the Airport to gain a better understanding of the business and its operations. Students that participate in the scheme regularly comment on the positive beneifits it has provided to them:

Zohaib Bhutta, one of the Newham residents from the scheme achieved a 2:1 Class Honours degree from Queen Mary University of London and said: “It has been a great journey, the Scheme has helped me a significant amount, aside from the financial benefits, the moral support and the experience has proven to be invaluable and I am truly grateful to London City Airport.  I have since been accepted for an internship in Hong Kong for one academic year teaching Business English at a University”.

Dwayne Black, also one of the Newham residents from the scheme said:  “The scheme has been very beneficial to me as it has broadened my horizons and made me realise what I actually want to be once I finish, before I was not too sure on what it is that I wanted to do. I would recommend the scheme to everyone from my experience LCY staff have always been there if you needed any advice or help with any aspect of University life. Also the work experience and training courses has proved invaluable and looks great on your CV as employers of today are looking for both good grades and work experience and LCY provide this by being on the scheme”.