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The children in Year 5 has come up with 3 different ideas to sell things to the school community - homemade bracelets, cookies or a fruit stand. They have sent out data collection to see what the pupils within school would like so that we are meeting the needs of the customers.
Week 1
Team name: Cookie Crumbles
Tell us what you have been doing this week
- collated ideas about what we could make / sell.
- sent out data to see what the pupils at school would like to buy.
- came up with questions to find out more about the business we are teamed with.
- met with 32West via teams and in person.
- applied for the role that the pupils thought they were most suited to.
What did you learn this week?
All about 32West and the different aspects of a business.
What role within a business the pupils feel they are best suited to.
What did you find difficult this week?
Compromise! Pupils had to understand that their idea was not necessarily the most suitable.
Betsy - Rae's winning logo design for our company.
Jonathan from 32West working with the class.
Week 2
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we have chosen our flavour cookies, designed posters to advertise the cookies and started to research the best value ingredients. The makers found the best recipe for the cookies. Each of the different teams - finance, promotion, research, makers, sellers and decision makers played a valuable part.
Jonathan from 32West came and supported us again. We shared our winning logo design with him - designed by Betsy Rae - and he is going to get his company to turn betsy Rae's design into an electronic logo..
What did you learn this week?
The children learnt about value for money, how to make a profit and how to communicate effectively. One pupil recognised that we had not selected a traditional chocolate chip cookie and she believed that they would sell well so eloquently spoke to the class, putting her opinion forward.
What did you find difficult this week?
Some of the children had to learn to compromise and understand that their favourite flavour may not be selected.
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?
32West kindly made Betsy-Rae's logo into an electronic logo.
Week 4
Tell us what you have been doing this week
We have had a busy first week back after half term.
We met with Eleanor from 32West who is in charge of social media. Eleanor helped us with our social media posts to launch our business. We have completed and displayed our posters and put them around school. We have spoken to the different classes about we are doing. We have sourced and ordered our ingredients for our cookies. We have checked we have all the correct baking equipment and we have created and posted on social media.
We also thought about the packaging for our cookies and made sticky labels to go on the packaging.
What did you learn this week?
The children learnt about communication - speaking clearly to an audience and using key words to entice potential customers. They learnt about how to attract customers via social media and finances - finding the cheapest quality ingredients to maximise profit.
What did you find difficult this week?
finding the best ingredients that would maximise profit.
Week 5
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Following our first cookie sale on Friday - which we sold out! - the children have evaluated the process from making the cookies, to selling them, to tasting them. We discussed what went well and what could be improved upon. The children also discussed changing some of the flavours and we voted on this.
Children then altered the posters to include the new flavours and selling date and we sorted the ingredients from last week to see what we needed to reorder. We also decided to have a 'stall' in the infant playground as well as one at the junior exit to maximise sales and reduce congestion.
What did you learn this week?
How to make cookies and evaluate a process to improve upon it. How to work out a profit. Democracy - vote on which flavours to get rid of and which flavours to introduce.
What did you find difficult this week?
Some children were reluctant to let certain flavour cookies go as they personally liked them, even though they were not the best tasting cookies.
Year 5 with all the cookies they made. Ready to sell to the eager parents.
Week 6
Tell us what you have been doing this week
Following our sell out week, we set out to make even more cookies to meet the demands of our school community. We evaluated the making process and refined it to allow us to bake more cookies in the different flavours that we agreed upon. Because we had some ingredients lft over from the first week, we did not have to spend as much on the ingredients.
What did you learn this week?
To cap the number of cookies that people bought! As we were now confident that we would sell the cookies, we limited sales to one of each cookie, to allow more people to buy them. We also learnt how to be more efficient in our baking process - pre cut baking paper, better use of the school ovens, et
What did you find difficult this week?
this week ran alot more smoothly than week one as we knew what we were doing!
Week 7
Tell us what you have been doing this week
following another sell out week last week, we set about making even more cookies! The issue wasn't making the cookies, it was finding the oven space to cook them as the school ovens were used to cook school dinners.
It was agreed that we would make some of the cookies on the Thursday and make the remaining ones on Friday. This allowed us more baking time and the ability to make a target of 200 cookies. The children were very confident in the making process and we also learnt how to sign our shopping list as part of our sign language lesson.
What did you learn this week?
to compromise on cooking day
to sign our ingredients
What did you find difficult this week?
letting go of other things in our weekly lessons to accommodate for additional making time.
our delicious m&m cookies
Week 8
Tell us what you have been doing this week
Now that we have completed trading - due to the madness of Christmas taking over - the children have evaluated the whole process, from start to finish. With the support of 32West, we have also made a video about our project.
We also contacted Cancer Care - our chosen charity - about presenting them with 50% of our profits. We are still trying to organise a date that is suitable for everyone.
What did you learn this week?
How to evaluate.
How to make a video using different techniques and camera angles and which shot is best for which part.
Writing a script for a video including which props to use and when.
What did you find difficult this week?
Some children found it difficult performing in front of the camera and found themselves more suited to a behind the camera role.
Week 9
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What did you learn this week?
What did you find difficult this week?
Week 10
Tell us what you have been doing this week
With the support of 32West, we have finalised our video. The children have previously evaluated the process and know what worked well and what didn't. We still need to finalise a date to hand the money over to Cancer Care.
What did you learn this week?
What did you find difficult this week?
32West have a copy of our video and will be able to forward using we transfer.
For pupils to answer:
In one sentence please tell us what Bright Stars has meant to you?
Working as part of a team we have learnt alot about businesses from Jonathan at 32West. We enjoyed making and selling the cookies.
For teachers to answer:
Can you tell us the impact this programme has had on your school?
The whole school community got behind Cookie Crumbles and supported our whole process from helping to advertise, making use of additional staff to help with baking, making use of the kitchens ovens and of course buying and eating the cookies.
Please provide your business plan.
Please provide your marketing plan.
Please provide your finance report/template.
Charity name/money donated to.
Cancer Care
Final profit (minus the £50 seed funding).
£388.28
