Sponsors
Week 1
Team name: We don't have one yet!
Tell us what you have been doing this week
Last week we met Georgia and the team from Nestle. They introduced themselves and spoke about the company they work for.
Mrs Brumpton asked the school ambassadors and some children from all the classes to come and meet the team. We played some games which were fun and some of us had to dress up in PPE as if we were working at Nestle - we had a great time.
We talked about goods and services and by the end we were able to say which was which. By having this early introduction we are all set for next week!
We talked about which charity we wanted to support. We are voting in each class.
What did you learn this week?
This week we learned about some different businesses in our local area, Georgia and her team made a fun road map for us put the businesses on. We had to help Aero the dinosaur to find the business he needed depending on the service or product we wanted.
What did you find difficult this week?
We split into smaller groups and used the mapping activity to explain the 5ps, this was tricky to begin with but we had lots of help from our super Nestle team and came up with some great answers!
Meeting Georgia and Lily from Nestle
Helping Aero the dinosaur to find local businesses
Designing sustainable packaging
Week 2
Tell us what you have been doing this week
We talked about sustainability. We weren't sure what this was at first but Georgia set us a challenge to design a new hot drink and with that the packaging that came with it. We had lots of fun being creative and we really pleased with the results. We talked about what we knew about recycling and materials and which were better for the planet. We are holding a competition for the whole school to design a new package and drink.
Sustainability would be one of the most important features of our social enterprise.
The class votes are in and we have chosen to support Oak Tree Animal Refuge.
What did you learn this week?
We need to consider the impact of our Christmas event and how we can make it a sustainable venture - we need to tell our friends about this.
We used the knowledge we had about materials and recycling to make informed choices about packaging e.g. cardboard and not plastic.
What did you find difficult this week?
It was hard to decide on which charity to pick, we wanted to support British Values and decided that a vote was the fairest way so our ambassadors presented this to the class and all votes counted.
Week 3 - Half Term
Tell us what you have been doing this week
What did you learn this week?
What did you find difficult this week?
Designing posters to advertise our goods and services
Week 4
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we were settling back into school and we were reminding each other of our Christmas event last year.
We have been collecting scrap paper as we want to re-use it to print our Christmas Window Wander sheets on so that we don't waste paper.
What did you learn this week?
Lily spoke to us about marketing this week and how important it was. We know that we want people to come to our event so it is important that we advertise it - We looked at different ways such as social media and Tapestry. Lily tasked us with designing a poster to advertise our event.
What did you find difficult this week?
We started chatting about the costs for each of our goods - we need a bit of help with this as we have not had a lot of experience with money. We want to make lots of money but need to be realistic!
Week 5
Tell us what you have been doing this week
We have been spreading the word and getting our friends excited about our event
We have been designing our posters and launching it on our facebook page
What did you learn this week?
We learnt about e safety and the importance of keeping ourselves safe on the internet.
We learnt what to include on a poster
We have launched our craft competition and hope this will raise some additional money and awareness of recycling
What did you find difficult this week?
We worked together with Mrs Brumpton to type the poster
Launching our event on our social media
Reception have started making Reindeer food
Week 6
Tell us what you have been doing this week
Classes have been getting theie Christmas Windows started.
Everyone has been given their instructions about what to make
We have been ordering the craft resources and waiting for them to arrive
What did you learn this week?
We were learning about how much money we have spent and how much we have left - not very much!
We are pleased with what we have done so far and working well as a team.
What did you find difficult this week?
Week 7
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we have carried on collecting and ordering our craft resources.
We have shared out the jobs in order to make the products that we want to sell
What did you learn this week?
This week Lilly, Georgia, Diana and Behram came to talk to us about finance and how we can make a profit
We played a really fun game where we started with £5 and had to buy and sell apples to make a profit, there was lots of good discussion and we learnt how to do this.
What did you find difficult this week?
It was tricky to understand the idea of how to make a profit to begin with but the practical activity definitely helped.
Buying and selling apples!
Counting our money!
Lots of discussion!
Nursery have been busy making Christmas Tree Decorations
Year 2 making log decorations
Christmas Windows Ready
Week 8
Tell us what you have been doing this week
We have been busy making lots of products to sell.
We have also been trying to fit in our Nativity practise and performances - its a bues time of year!
We have been checking that Oak Tree are providing a game for us to use so that we can raise some more money for them.
What did you learn this week?
We learnt to be resilient and keep going even when things get tough and we are tried.
We know how to fasten and fix things together and help each other when we get stuck.
What did you find difficult this week?
Trying to make sure we are organised for our event!
Week 9
Tell us what you have been doing this week
Wow! We held our Christmas Window Wander event, it was a great success, we had lots of families join in and buy the products we made!
What did you learn this week?
We were successful and we were really please all our hard work paid of!
What did you find difficult this week?
For pupils to answer:
In one sentence please tell us what bright stars has meant to you?
"We didn't know anything about a business and Georgia and Lilly taught us about money and we liked playing the apple game" (learning about profit)
"They (Nestle) were really good at making fun games"
For teachers to answer:
Can you tell us the impact this programme has had on your school?
It has allowed the children to learn what is is like to make a product and sell it. They loved coming each week to complete their 'special jobs' and kept asking for more and more friends to join in. For them to talk so enthusiastically about it was so pleasing to see. It really supports our school values such as collaboration and resilience and gives our school ambassadors a sense of responsibility despite how young they are all.
Please provide your business plan.
Please provide your marketing plan.
Please provide your finance report/template.
Charity name/money donated to.
Oak Tree Animal Refuge and Continue to develop the Social Enterprise at school - raising awareness of Sustainability through school projects
Final profit (minus the £50 seed funding).
£303.50
Nestle came to support us on our Christmas Event, they hosted a sustainability stand.
The craft competition entries were fantastic and showed lots of creativity using recyclable materials
