Sponsors
Week 1
Team name: The Pebble Pals
Tell us what you have been doing this week
We have been working with our business mentors to come up with a super idea for our social enterprise. We have decided to use recycled pebbles and make people happy by painting our pebbles and giving them some positive quotes. The mentors were fabulous with the children and they took on board their ideas and were able to get everyone involved.
What did you learn this week?
We found out from a proper entrepreneur what having your business entails, what jobs are involved in running your own business and how important it is to market something that people really need.
What did you find difficult this week?
Being able to work together and make joint decisions as we all had such fabulous ideas. Team work though and decisions were made.
The Pebble Pals team
The team working hard togther
Busy working with our mentors to make our Pebble Pals
We are ready to bring positivity to everyone with our Pebble Pals
Week 2
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we have started production of our Pebble Pals. The children have been decorating the pebbles and designing various themes for them so that they will appeal to a wider audience. The children were so eager to use the bright colours and work with our business mentors. We then assigned jobs to each of our team so that we are able to manage the project, keep track of the money, sell as many items as possible and all work as a team.
What did you learn this week?
This week we learnt all about the varying roles there are in business. What each role does and how we would need to do it. Even though we will work together as a team we will also all have our very own job role within the team.
What did you find difficult this week?
Understanding the roles of the business and working out what our strengths are to find out who will be the best at the job.
Week 3
Tell us what you have been doing this week
The team have been extremely busy decorating and adding characters to their Pebble Pals. There has been so much creatively and excitement over the Pebble Pals.
We have been making plans for where we will sell them as well. Our business mentors have organized a stall for us at Energus and we have approached our local church who have said they will be more than happy to sell our Pebble Pals.
Hopefully next week we will start to make sales and see how much profit we can make.
What did you learn this week?
We have been learning about distribution and reaching a wide audience for our sales. We have planned together who we know and where we might be able to sell our Pebble Pals.
What did you find difficult this week?
Trying to work out how we can reach as many people as possible for our sales.
Our Pebble Pals
The sales team ready for action
The team in action- Sell out event
Week 4
Tell us what you have been doing this week
It has been a very busy week!! We attended an event at Energus and successfully sold over £300 of Pebble Pals. We also have Pebble Pals for sale at St Michaels church and our Junior school. We have offers of other places to sell our Pebble Pals and this will be done using honesty boxes. Our accounts team have been busy totaling up all our income. The sales team have plans to place our products in other venues familiar to us to increase our profit and make as much money as possible.
Its been an extremely success week so far.
What did you learn this week?
This week the children have been learning how to interact with their customers, how to encourage them to buy and that if we sell in as many places as possible we can make a profit. They have shown excellent team working skills and worked well collectively.
What did you find difficult this week?
Nerves!! Everyone was very nervous before we started our stall but once the nerves were overcome the team pulled together for a successful sales event.
Week 5
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This has been a week if organising and making sure we have dropped off and collected all our sales baskets. The children have ensured that we have utilized all our sources for sales.
What did you learn this week?
The children have learned about keeping accounts and making sure that we are making money, They have counted in all the money from our various sales baskets. They have used their mathematical skills to give us a total. They have been so excited to see how much they have made!!
What did you find difficult this week?
Keeping track of the accounts and thinking about next steps for us. They all had to really work hard to add up the sales money. Lots of discussion about where else we could sell our Pebbles.
Selling our Pebbles to parents
The accountancy team
Week 6 - half term
Week 7
Tell us what you have been doing this week
Due to a high demand we have had to replenish our stock. The children have discussed which pebbles have sold well and which ones we still have left. Did people like the tags? Which messages sold better than others? Did people like the positive messages? The business mentors supported the children in small groups and the ideas generated were very interesting. The children expressed their reflections and were able to plan out the next steps needed to continue to generate sales.
What did you learn this week?
How to evaluate sales and plan for future sales. Working together and collaborating can ensure that we get the best possible ideas and planning together generates more ideas which can lead to more sales.
What did you find difficult this week?
Evaluating and reflecting on our past sales was a tricky job. The children really had to work as a team to think about what pebbles had been selling well and which ones we needed to replicate.
Painting the next batch
Replicating our best designs
Our selling baskets
The delivery team
Week 8
Tell us what you have been doing this week
We finished off the last of our Pebble Pals and we were able to deliver them out to restock at our various selling points.
The delivery team did a fantastic job and we were thrilled by the response from everyone.
We have talked about what we will do with our overstock. We think it would be a good idea to gift some Pebble Pals so that we can spread some positive vibes.
What did you learn this week?
We had a good discussion about distribution with our mentors. We talked about whether we had reached a good number of people through our various baskets.
We ensured we had all done our job role and we worked with our mentors to complete our tasks.
What did you find difficult this week?
Reflecting on what we had done and what we needed to do. With our mentors support we were able to tick off what we had done and what we needed to do.
Week 9
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we did our final money count up and the accountancy team were able to report that we had made over £1,000. The entire team was thrilled. That's a lot of money to count. Our mentors did some reflective work with us and we were all able to talk about what we ad learned ad enjoyed about doing the project. We looked back on the roles we had played in the project and how important each role is within the team. There was lots of discussions about who might have been more important within the team but everyone soon realized that every team member played a vital role.
What did you learn this week?
We learnt the importance of team work, every person brings something different to the team and when we work together we can achieve great things.
What did you find difficult this week?
Reflecting is hard. Our mentors helped us understand how important it is to reflect and they modelled how we should do it so everyone's point of view came across.
For pupils to answer:
In one sentence please tell us what bright stars has meant to you?
I have like working with the big girls every week.
We got to go out and sell or pebbles to real people.
I have liked making money.
For teachers to answer:
Can you tell us the impact this programme has had on your school?
The programme offers us the opportunity to work with a group of children on a project that is engaging and exciting. Over the weeks we can see the children's confidence grow and this is what makes it worthwhile for us.
The programme brings staff together with a shared vision and purpose. We as a whole staff back our Bright Stars 100% .
Please provide your business plan.
Please provide your marketing plan.
Please provide your finance report/template.
Charity name/money donated to.
FOVISA 1110976
Final profit (minus the £50 seed funding).
££1,020
