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Week 1
Team name: Nurture Nature Squad
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we decided that we will develop our school gardens. We want to create a garden that will be provide fruit and vegetables in the future and be a community hub where everyone can go to feel good and part of something. We have come up with ideas for things we can sell that link with healthy diet and fruit and veg too. We have been planting seeds in compost. We have also been designing logos and names for our company. We voted for our name (above!). For logos we put them all on a wall on the back of the class and three have come out on top so we need to combine ideas!
What did you learn this week?
We learned that in a productive team we all need to do different jobs! Some of us enjoyed designing logos more than planting, others loved getting messy in the soil and planting seeds while others watered and nurtured them, some worked in a ‘human resources’ role sorting through job applications!
What did you find difficult this week?
It was tricky to choose a logo because there were so many good ones!
It was also challenging because, with it being the first week, we all wanted to take part in everything that was going on!
Our human resources team this week finding out from our application forms what we were all good at and recording the information!
voting on our favourite logo designs after creating images and taglines!
Week 2
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we worked on planting seeds in different ways, thinking about planting seeds for the future! We decided this might link with our 'tagline' for our business too! We took seeds from strawberries and planted them in our own pots. We have watered and nurtured all our plants. We weeded our beds and put our scarecrows into them to protect them. We also started to draft our fruit and veg alphabet books, which we are going to continue with next week!
What did you learn this week?
We learned that when we muck in we (quite literally!) we are an excellent team! We have learned that we need to take advantage of everyone's skills and talents to make a business work.
What did you find difficult this week?
It was difficult to make progress in such a short period of time with our books, so we know we need to work on these throughout the week. We have learned that we need to commit more of our time.
Week 3
Tell us what you have been doing this week
We split into our chosen groups this week. The financial team have been looking at the different flavours and colours for popsicles to think of some prices for them and what the customers might want. They also made notes of what questions to ask people who might be interested. The design team are going through the A-Z of fruit and vegtable and doing illusatrations of them and researching some facts about them too. The planting and communicating teams went outside. The planting team planted in rows. The communication team thought of how to make people interested in the product.
What did you learn this week?
About the different types of fruit and veg:
UGLI fruit
How to plant fruit in rows
How to draw different fruit
How to write a questionnaire
What did you find difficult this week?
We asked the groups and they said:
Design- Drawing the different fruit and veg.
Finance- Thinking of the questions
Planting- How to plant in lines
planting seedlings out and putting in new seeds this week ready for sellling!
Making a start on our fruit and veg A-Z for the little ones!
Happy planters out in the sunshine! What teamwork!
Week 4
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week, the team finished off planting the remaining seeds in the beds outsite. The surveys/questionnaire's which had been prepared in the previous week were handed out around the school to gather information about popsicle preferences. Collectively, the group also looked at ways in which they could turn any spare fruit into popsicles which could then be sold amongst fellow pupils, teachers and parents!
What did you learn this week?
The group learned about why it is important to hear everyone's opinion when making a decision. They also developed their decision making skills when deciding which fruit would be best to use for the popsicles from both a business (financial) and environmental (waste/sustainability) perspective.
What did you find difficult this week?
Having to gather questionnaire results from a wide range of people and deciding which fruit would be most beneficial ona profit and sustainability basis.
Week 5
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we were on our school residential, so we enlisted some 'employees' in the children staying at school who went round and delivered our questionnaires. They discovered that berry flavours were very popular with children on the whole.
What did you learn this week?
We learned that our business can keep going even when we are not there, and potentially beyond the Bright Stars window.
What did you find difficult this week?
It was difficult to manage our 'employees' remotely, but we managed it!
This is the questionnaire we designed and our 'employees' used to do customer research!
Week 6 - half term
Week 7
Tell us what you have been doing this week
We created a banner for selling our tomato plants that we have nurtured and also created posters for selling tomatoes to put around school. We used bright inks to make our posters eye catching.
What did you learn this week?
We learned that when we all work more quietly we actually get more done. We took advice from our business mentor about how we sometimes need to work more quietly in our jobs in order to get things done, especially if we are on a short time frame.
What did you find difficult this week?
It was difficult not to chatter as we enjoy Bright Stars, but we did understand that we need to focus on finishing work off.
We worked hard on our banner, enlisting the help of some Reception children too!
Our tomato selling team encouraging customers.
Week 8
Tell us what you have been doing this week
We sold the final remaining fruit ice pops and continued to plant and sell the tomato plants that we've been growing throughout the programme.
What did you learn this week?
We learnt about the importance of supply and demand, as the fruit ice pops were in high demand, even in the cold weather!
What did you find difficult this week?
We found it difficult to manage the supply of tomato plants that we had. As we've managed to keep the plants healthy, it was hard to plant them all in the timeframe in preparation for selling them.
Week 9
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we split up into three groups (Finance, Drawing/Art and Planting). The Finance Team were responsible for counting up all of the coins that have been collected after selling the products. They then subtracted the overall amount from the original budget to work out the profit. The Drawing/Art team finished off their sketches and colouring of the different fruit and veg in the A-Z of fruit/veg. The Planting team finished planting the remaining tomato plants that were left, to try and sell them in the final week of trading.
What did you learn this week?
Addition and subtraction using currency, profits, how to draw and shade in different types of fruit and vegetable, how to plant tomato plants properly to help them to grow.
What did you find difficult this week?
Counting up using the different types of coins, planting the tomato plants without getting soil on the carpet!
For pupils to answer:
In one sentence please tell us what bright stars has meant to you?
Bright stars has helped us to be more adventurous, to support others and ourselves to be healthy, to build teamwork while making a difference and we have had fun while creating a great business!
For teachers to answer:
Can you tell us the impact this programme has had on your school?
The programme supports us to have a structure around 'Young Enterprise' and gives the children a wider purpose other than pure profit due to the elements of sustainability and social impact.
Please provide your business plan.
Please provide your marketing plan.
Please provide your finance report/template.
Charity name/money donated to.
We have been considering which charities might match our goals and thought about 'Growing Well', which was mentioned in the first sustainability meeting.
Final profit (minus the £50 seed funding).
££196
Our collaborative art which we all contributed to!
Final ice pop sales this week and last!
