Secondary Enterprise Education
Programmes currently available:
A chance for pupils to plan and coordinate their own school fayre!
Our Most Popular Programme -
A tough challenge for any group of students – After learning about core financial concepts, pupils would engage in many business related tasks including conducting market research, forming a business plan, presenting to a Dragons’ Den panel, designing promotional material, forming a sales strategy, buying and making their products before, finally, selling their items to friends and family, in addition to the general public, as part of a ‘Trade Day’ held at the school or a local market. The winner, as always, is the group that generates the largest profit.
This unique programme offers students the chance to make a presentation to a panel of business experts about a business idea they have, varying amounts of finance will be given to groups depending on the caliber of their presentation, its then a race against time to maximise their profits and claim victory!
A unique opportunity for a group of students to plan, implement and evaluate the success of an event staged on behalf of a national existing company.
Once inside the boardroom participating students will be set a unique and challenging task for each session, points will be awarded and deducted as the ‘Directors’ see fit, the winning group is the one with the most points at the end of the programme.
A tough challenge for any group of students! After being given the framework of their products in the morning, groups must put the finishing touches to their items and then make pricing, marketing and operational decisions before trying to sell their products in the afternoon! As always the winner is the group that registers the biggest profit!
What does it take to be an entrepreneur and run a successful company? Pupils will interview business men and women and deliver a presentation with the answers! Who wins is determined by the calibre of the presentation!
Presented with a scenario relating to a failing business, groups must decide how to spend the companies remaining funds in order to reinvigorate the firms fortunes, a panel of business experts will judge the groups presentations.
* Extended - This programme has been designed to be carried out over several sessions.
** One day - This programme has been designed to be carried out over 1 full day
Economic Well-Being
An economic well-being session forms an integral part of all the enterprise programmes we offer. The session outlines and explains economic well-being before encouraging students to examine their profit and calculate their hourly wage before assessing whether they have achieved economic well-being. Students must then suggest ways in which revenue could have been increased or costs lowered to enable them to be able to achieve economic well-being/achieve it more easily.
What Can Our Enterprise Programmes Offer Your School?
- In addition to satisfying some of the traditional Key Stage 3 and 4 National Curriculum requirements, also meets the requirements of ‘Every Child Matters’ economic well-being guidelines and further develops many of the concepts outlined within it, this not only ensures that children have an understanding of enterprise in relation to the economic environment but also ensures that they are encouraged to build on their basic understanding by investigating more thought-proving and challenging enterprise and economic theories through their involvement in a challenging and live business based programme.
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Will assist the school in taking positive steps to meet government led community involvement aspirations.
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Illustrates to Ofsted that the school is embracing enterprise education in addition to engaging with the local business community to deliver a comprehensive and diverse educational enterprise programme.
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Provides the school with a framework from which it can deliver quality enterprise education for future years.
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Offers an innovative, exciting and relevant addition to the schools existing curriculum plan.
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The programme gives your staff the opportunity to learn about / enhance their existing knowledge of enterprise education and the delivery of it.
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Will teach pupils valuable life skills (such as communication, group participation, financial analysis, well-being, organisation and creative thinking, among others) as well as reinforcing ones already learnt.
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Offers your school the chance to embrace an invaluable opportunity to give the entrepreneurs of tomorrow the skills of today.
Secondary Programmes
It should be noted that the enterprise concepts involved with key stage 3 and 4 programmes will be suitably challenging and may include concepts such as:
- Profit and Loss Account.
- Balance Sheet.
- Budget Analysis.
- Customer Needs.
- Diminishing Returns.
- Economies of Scale.
- The Marketing Mix.
- The Promotional Mix.
