Sponsors
Week 1
Team name: Star Systems
Tell us what you have been doing this week
Miss Thompson met with the people from BAE who are coming in to work with us on our project.
What did you learn this week?
The names of the people from BAE and what we are going to be doing with them.
What did you find difficult this week?
Week 2 - half term
Week 3
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we have been trying different biscuits, we had to evaluate them on their texture, taste and smell. We also then had to look at the packaging and the price of the pack to decide what age of person they are being marketed at.
What did you learn this week?
We learnt that there is lots of different types of biscuits in the shops and different people like different types of biscuits.
What did you find difficult this week?
Evaluating the biscuit and deciding what age group they are aimed at as people have different likes with food and biscuits.
Tasting and evaluating
Trying biscuits
Deciding on the ingredients
Working as a team
Week 4
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we worked in 5 groups to make the basic biscuits but we were able to add 2 ingredients to the recipe. We had to decide as a group the 2 extra ingredients and make sure they worked together. We then made the biscuits, enough for everyone to try a bit of the biscuit. The next day we tried all the different ones and then voted as a class our favourite one. We also looked at the cost of the different ingredients that we will be using to make our biscuits.
What did you learn this week?
We learnt that some of the ingredients we added didn't work together and some of the ingredients didn't work when we cooked them as you couldn't taste them in the biscuit. We also learnt that some of the ingredients were a lot more expensive than we thought.
What did you find difficult this week?
We found it hard deciding which 2 ingredients we were going to put in the biscuits as some of them didn't work very well.
Week 5
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we have been looking at designing our packaging for the biscuits, we have looked at different recycled materials to decide which is the best packaging for our biscuits.
What did you learn this week?
We learnt about the different materials used in packaging and thinking about the environment when using recycled materials.
What did you find difficult this week?
Thinking about which packaging to use, and thinking about the costs of each.
Designing our packaging
Designing our labels
Labeling designing
Week 6
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we have been decided on our biscuit name and company name. We then started to design the labels that will go on our non-paper packaging.
What did you learn this week?
We learnt to work together to come up with a name for our biscuit and our company that we all liked and agreed on.
What did you find difficult this week?
Some people found it difficult to agree on the name of the company.
Week 7
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we worked in groups with help from a group of parents to make our biscuits to sell at the school Christmas Fayre. We had decided on a basic recipe then agreed on the extra ingredients that we were adding.
What did you learn this week?
We learnt this week to work together and to work out the cost of the individual biscuits then we worked out how many we would put in the packet to sell and decided on a price. We talked about offering a deal if people bought more than one packet.
What did you find difficult this week?
We found the costing hard to work out as we weren't sure how much of the extra ingredients to put into the recipe.
Making the biscuits
Selling them at the Fayre
Week 8
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we looked at how much we had spent on the ingredients and how much we had raised through the sale of our biscuits, we then thought about what we could spend the money on that would fit in with our ideas for raising awareness of deforestation.
What did you learn this week?
We learnt about the different things that we could do with the money that we raised and put the money to use.
What did you find difficult this week?
There was lots of different ideas that we came up with and we found it hard to choose one.
Week 9
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we decided to adopt some animals that are impacted and endangered due to deforestation, we looked into the animals that we could afford to adopt. With the money we raised we were able to adopt a giant panda, a tiger and a gorilla.
What did you learn this week?
We researched the different animals and the impact that the deforestation is having on their species.
What did you find difficult this week?
We found it difficult to decide on the animals to fit in with the budget we had.
For pupils to answer:
In one sentence please tell us what bright stars has meant to you?
It has helped us to learn about budgeting and marketing.
We had to work together as a team and listen to each others ideas.
We tried to think of ways to include everyone's ideas.
For teachers to answer:
Can you tell us the impact this programme has had on your school?
More awareness of deforestation and the impact that it is having on earth, humans and animals. We made links with BAE, where many of our parents work and this gave the children insight into what it is like to work in a large corporation. Children have learnt how to have better discussion in which they listen to each other more carefully and are more likely to consider other peoples ideas and compromise.
Please provide your business plan.
Please provide your marketing plan.
Please provide your finance report/template.
Charity name/money donated to.
WWF
Final profit (minus the £50 seed funding).
£85.00
Panda adoptions
Our adopted animals
