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Week 1
Team name: Wild Wings
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we met Nicky from Oak Tree Animal Charity, our partner charity. It was lovely to see Nicky again as we were paired with Oak Tree last time we did Bright Stars. We spent some time thinking of ideas for our business, and voted to choose our favourite. We started to create a business plan with clear aims of what we will do.
What did you learn this week?
Nicky taught us about what a business is, we looked at different businesses and if they provide services or goods, and we looked at how a business can run.
We learnt about what a business plan looks like and had a go at making our own.
What did you find difficult this week?
Some people found it difficult to come up with business ideas. It was also tricky when your idea wasn't chosen and a bit disappointing.
An example idea map of an idea for our business
Writing our job descriptions!
A prototype bird feeder
Week 2
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week Nicky came in and talked us through the job roles that are involved in a business and what the responsibilities of each job are. We thought about what job we would like to do and wrote a job application form. Then we had interviews conducted by Nicky, Miss Baker and Mrs Bailey. Our jobs were chosen and we got started! Some of us made prototypes of the products we hope to make.
What did you learn this week?
This week we learnt how to write a job application and what sort of things to write in them. Nicky told us it was important to write about our qualities. We learnt about how to work in a team and how to apply our skills in our job roles.
What did you find difficult this week?
It was difficult to think about the qualities that make us good for the job role we were applying for and it was tricky to answer some of the questions during the interviews as we had to think quickly
Week 3
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we made a plan of who is doing what. We started to write letters to parents and local builders to ask for donations of recycled resources such as wood and nails. In the parent letter we have asked if any parents could come in and help us with making our wonderful bird houses/feeders after school in a workshop.
What did you learn this week?
This week we chose the name for our business and we decided to go with 'Wild Wings'. We decided this by using a blind vote. We discussed who would write the letters to parents and builders and who would design the logo, and delegated other jobs such as creating a mood board.
What did you find difficult this week?
We found it difficult to get people into the swing of doing their job. We found it difficult to decide on the price of our products and the name for our business.
These are our project managers
This is one of our logo ideas
These are our letters to the parents and builders.
This is a clip from an interview we held with the leader of the design team.
Week 4
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week, the customer service team designed and wrote letters to parents and builders merchants. We asked the parents if they could help out in a building workshop after the holidays and we asked the builders merchants if they would donate any wood so that we could build our products. We kindly received a donation from Travis Perkins in Wigton which will help us to build our products. We have interviewed some of our team leaders and asked them what they found tricky and what they liked and what they will change.
What did you learn this week?
This week, we learnt how to use emotive language in a persuasive letter which was useful for our letters. We learnt why a prototype product is useful when predicting the materials we need to create all of our products.
What did you find difficult this week?
This week, the design team found it difficult to design and create the protype for our bird feeder. Our sub teamleader found it tricky to organise the sub teams and choose what they would do this week
Week 5
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week Nicky visited and we made a marketing plan. We needed a poster to advertise our products so we held a competition to see which poster we would use.
What did you learn this week?
This week we found out the price range we would use for our products amd how to use persuasive writing.
What did you find difficult this week?
We were given a marketing sheet to fill-in and some questions were challenging to answer. When people were designing the posters, they found it tricky to fit all of the information onto one page.
This is someone filling in the marketing plan sheet.
This is our winning poster.
Week 6 - Half Term
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Week 7
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we had parents come in and help us to make our bird feeders/houses. We wrote a letter to say thank you to all the parents who helped. We ended up with 20 bird feeders and 21 bird birdhouses. We advertising our products and sent a second letter to the wood merchants who donated us some wood to say thank you and to show them what we made. The finance team helped to decide a product price which enabled them to estimate a final amount we will raise. We hope to share the money between Oak Tree Animal Charity and our school.
What did you learn this week?
This week we learnt how to make the bird feeders and houses. We learnt how to use different work tools and learnt lots of different new skills within making them. some people learnt how to use a heat pen to burn our logo into the product. The finance team learnt how to price a product.
What did you find difficult this week?
This week we found it difficult to make our products because it was tricky to get the nails out of the wood when they had bent. Some people this week found it hard, adding the felt to our products.
This is some of our crew using the heat pens to print our logo onto our product.
This is someone in our class and their dad helping to make the bird boxes.
This is us and our product we are very pleased with all we've achieved in bright stars.
Week 8
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we have collected pre-orders for our products and we have been busy preparing for our video by finding out our questions and thinking about what we're going to say and taking lots of photos/videos.
What did you learn this week?
This week we learn how to organise money into Spreadsheet and how to work together and put a short sentence to answer the question you have been given. This week we have learnt you need to have a lot of perseverance in a business and a lot of good teamwork.
What did you find difficult this week?
This week some of us found difficult prepping for the videos and doing an idea that you think that won't work and you don't agree with. We found it difficult to ask everyone what their favourite part.
Week 9
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we have filmed, edited and created our video. We have also been to the local children's hospice to deliver the bird feeders and boxes we have chosen to donate. We have enjoyed seeing photographs of our bird feeders in people's gardens!
What did you learn this week?
We learnt how to film, edit and create an effective video.
What did you find difficult this week?
It was difficult to get all of what we had to say into a short video but we managed it!
For pupils to answer:
In one sentence please tell us what bright stars has meant to you?
Bright stars has been a really interesting way to find out how to run a business and we have had lots of fun together creating Wild Wings.
For teachers to answer:
Can you tell us the impact this programme has had on your school?
The children have worked collaboratively as a team and produced high quality products which sold out within 2 days! They have learnt so much about working as a team, running a business, creating a marketing plan, managing finances and involving the community. It has been great to see their teamwork and management skills develop over the programme.
Please provide your business plan.
Please provide your marketing plan.
Please provide your finance report/template.
Charity name/money donated to.
Oak Tree Animal Charity - £214.01
Final profit (minus the £50 seed funding).
££428.01
Our donated bird feeder at Oak Tree Animal Charity
