Enterprise in School

Enterprise education is about giving students the skills to succeed. It will help you get a job for a company or set up your own. It will help you respond to change or be the person that makes the changes. It will help you identify the risks and rewards of courses of action in your school life, career and personal life and give you the skills to follow the path with maximum benefit.

So, how enterprising are you?

Here are just some of the enterprise activities going on in school.

Yr 10 Enterprise Logbook
A logbook containing quizzes, practical activities, space for reflection and future planning completed in year 10 tutorials.

Work Experience
The chance for all year 10s to learn about the world of work.

School Council and Year Councils
Students identifying areas of need in the school and doing something about it. The school council has organised many non-uniform days for charity, encouraged fair trade and campaigned for drinking water in school.

Yr 9 Popstars Day
Year 9 students had a day of being a pop group who were so successful they needed a personal assistant. Who would they choose to organise their tour dates, book hotels, collect payments, pay their wages, promote them in the media and get them onto top of the pops? And how much would they pay them?

Hotel Services
Are you one of the students helping to run a successful restaurant? And do you have any ideas about how it could be even better?

BTEC Performing Arts
Are you one of the students involved in putting on a fantastic show? Were you involved in the marketing, advertising or ticket sales? All of these are important enterprise skills.

Youth Theatre
Another group of people who are performing arts entrepreneurs! The product is a top notch musical and students are involved in acting, singing, dancing, lighting, sound, advertising and front of house.

Young Enterprise
Some pupils even set up and run their own businesses as part of young enterprise. They make business plans, produce, market and sell their product. Then they make a big profit (hopefully!)

Plus

Lots of money raising initiatives for charity.

Social enterprise
Providing a service without making profit, for example the safe haven website, peer mentors.