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Week 1
Team name: We will plan our team name when we meet our Bright Stars partner.
Tell us what you have been doing this week
We started to learn about what a business is and we are looking forward to hearing who our partner will be.
What did you learn this week?
We learnt about what a business is and discussed sustainable businesses.
What did you find difficult this week?
It was tricky to start thinking about what we might plan to do and deciding what roles we might have. We We were excited to get started.
We have been working on a logo design and business ideas.
Our plan for our Bright Stars notice board and team ideas.
Week 2
Tell us what you have been doing this week
We are excited to meet our Bright Stars partner - Andrea Stones from Stepping Stones School of dance and fitness. We have been thinking of ideas for the business.
What did you learn this week?
We learnt about Stepping Stones School of dance and how it is a business.
We planned questions to ask Andrea when she visits our class. We learnt about how to start a business and the effects a business can have on others as a social enterprise. We learnt what it means to have a successful business.
What did you find difficult this week?
It can be tricky to decide what the business should be, getting the equipment needed, short timescale and how much money we might need to budget. Tricky to plan our advertisement.
Week 3 - Half Term
Tell us what you have been doing this week
Half term
What did you learn this week?
What did you find difficult this week?
We planned and presented our business ideas to our class.
We planned and presented our business ideas to our class.
Week 4
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week class four have been working on our 2024 bright stars project with our business partner Andrea Ostle -who owns stepping stones dance studio-we created idea pages to help decide what we are going to do for this year project. There were some amazing ideas. We even then sent our own email to Andrea from the class!
What did you learn this week?
This week l learnt how to plan a business, the things you need to create that business and the steps of running a business. Having our business partner answer our questions about her business in dance helped us plan our ideas for our product. We also learnt how to send an email to our partner.
What did you find difficult this week?
I found it hard to plan there were so many things we needed to think of and had to include, we had many ideas but it was hard to visualise how our business will work and come to together.
Week 5
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we wrote our job applications for roles and positions within our business. We are finalising our plans for our business event and logos!
What did you learn this week?
We learned how to write a job application and identify all the great skills we have!
What did you find difficult this week?
Writing the job application and editing our writing is challenging. We wanted our work to be great and impress the reader.
Week 6
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we have been creating all of our things for our project called ‘Morland come dancing’. We have elected our C.E.O's and assigned people to their roles. We are hosting a dance competition bringing fun and sparkle to everyone. We’re having a mini disco, selling refreshments and inviting the community to come wearing something sparkly.
What did you learn this week?
I learned this week how you create a good business and how to do certain roles such as: C.E.O finance ream and more. We have all learnt how to work in teams on different parts of the projects. We made posters, letters, decorations, tickets and even a presentation.
What did you find difficult this week?
I found this week being a C.E.O is very hard because you have a high level work to balance as well as being able to help others with their work in their teams.
Week 7
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we had our special event ‘Morland Comes Dancing’. In full strictly style we had judges, DJs, a refreshments team, front of house ticket sales and compares to the day. We ran a mini disco, sparkle day non uniform and the to show too with parents and the community attending.It was an amazing day all round.
What did you learn this week?
How to use our budget, to make our decorations rather than but more, to advertise for guests, to write speeches for the Sparkle day, mini disco and Strictly show event, to host an event, look after our customers, collate dietary information fr the refreshments team. To count our takings.
What did you find difficult this week?
Combining all the teams together to run one big final event under a tight schedule and time scale.
Our ‘Strictly Comes Morland’ team getting ready for the mini disco, sparkle day and Morland Comes Dancing show!
Our ‘Strictly Comes Morland’ team getting ready for the mini disco, sparkle day and Morland Comes Dancing show!
Our main event day for Strictly Comes Morland, our special bright stars sparkle day and mini disco for the school and community raising money for our school and Ankoma Outreach.
Week 8
Tell us what you have been doing this week
We have been working on this video of our Bright Stars business project reflections. We wrote our own speeches for the video clips then merged them together. Please click on the link to our school facebook page to see the video. https://www.facebook.com/morlandarea/videos/1669651003933899
We are helping run the school Christmas fair on 6/12/24 where we are also making Bright Stars dance bracelets to sell and baked mince pies and crispy cakes for our stalls. We hope to raise more money for our Bright Stars project.
What did you learn this week?
We worked hard to give everyone a chance to try a job they would have wanted to do. We wrote speeches to reflect on our business journey and took video clips of our whole team. We extended our business into the school Christmas fair to build our profit and successful business.
What did you find difficult this week?
We found out that it is hard to run a business and have everything prepared in time for events. We had to commit to our jobs so that the business would run smoothly and not disappoint people.
Week 9
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This has been our week of reflection. We have created a video involving every team member who took part in our business. We thought carefully about what we had learnt and what impact we had on our school and local community.
What did you learn this week?
We learnt how to take time to reflect and think about our business, what we had done, what we had achieved and what we would do next if we carried on. We would to plan another special disco day and think we might do so for our school Christmas party!
What did you find difficult this week?
It was quite tricky to reflect and make a video involving everybody from the team but once we got going we had so much to say and share.
For pupils to answer:
In one sentence please tell us what bright stars has meant to you?
Bright stars has helped us develop confidence, knowledge of businesses and how to create something that makes a positive impact on other people’s lives.
For teachers to answer:
Can you tell us the impact this programme has had on your school?
This programme has had such a positive impact on my class. They have gained a huge amount of confidence and developed their team work skills to a much higher level than when we began. We recently had Ofsted who commented on the positive experience this had had on the children and enhanced our curriculum. It has been great to see the children work on a big project together and create opportunities for all within their teams. They have worked so well as a team and even now have started creating some of their own businesses, which is exciting. Please see the video of the children’s reflections via our school facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/morlandarea/videos/1669651003933899
Please provide your business plan.
Please provide your marketing plan.
Please provide your finance report/template.
Charity name/money donated to.
Ankoma Outreach and Morland School
Final profit (minus the £50 seed funding).
£300.00
