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Week 1
Team name: Go Green Garden Team
Tell us what you have been doing this week
We got together for the first time as our Bright Stars team.
Jenny from Lingholm visited us and talked about her business and what makes it successful.
Jenny brought in some biscuits for us to taste and asked us what we liked or could improve and she explained this is what makes a successful business, always finding ways to improve.
Jenny told us about the 5Ps of business, including the type of customers they get at Lingholm and what they are interested in buying.
We started to think of ideas for our own social enterprise.
What did you learn this week?
* What a social enterprise and a business is.
* What kind of business Lingholm is.
* What the sustainability goals are.
* The 5Ps of business.
What did you find difficult this week?
Not eating the biscuits straight away
Coming up with ideas that Lingholm didn’t already do.
Listening to each other’s ideas one at a time.
Coming up with sensible ideas.
Getting the screen to work
Week 2
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we decided on a team name, Go Green Garden Team. It was a combination of a few different suggestions.
We talked to our families and filled in our job application sheets then Mrs Renton and Mrs McVittie told us which jobs we were doing.
We decided what we wanted to make and what we would need to buy to make them.
We did a Facebook video asking for donations of garden items we could recycle.
We started making them in lunchtimes and breaks.
What did you learn this week?
It was quite easy to come up with a team name.
How to make clay tealight holders, painted pebbles, bird feeders, and windmills.
We were all happy with our jobs.
We have to work fast to make lots of things.
What did you find difficult this week?
The video took lots of goes because we kept laughing or forgetting the words.
The clay was hard to press down and get out of the moulds.
The smell of the melted lard.
The bird seeds made a mess.
Week 3
Tell us what you have been doing this week
We carried on making our products.
Our finance team started making a list of what we had bought so far.
Our MDs met with Jenny and Ken from Lingholm to talk about prices and our event at Lingholm.
We ran a market stall in Keswick to see which of our products were most popular.
We made posters and price lists for our market stall.
What did you learn this week?
That our prices would need to be quite low to sell lots.
Customer service and making people buy things.
Using money.
How to make a bright poster.
How to keep track of sales.
What did you find difficult this week?
Wearing uniform on a Saturday and getting up early.
Adding costs and working out change.
Getting people to come over to the stall.
Week 4
Tell us what you have been doing this week
Continued making all of our products.
Started making scarecrows for Lingholm.
Came up with a secret word for the scarecrow trail.
What did you learn this week?
How to make scarecrows.
What did you find difficult this week?
It was sunny and the field was open so we wanted to play out at break times.
Stuffing the scarecrows so they were big enough.
Week 5
Tell us what you have been doing this week
We carried on making products and scarecrows.
We took the scarecrows and entry forms to Lingholm.
What did you learn this week?
What did you find difficult this week?
Week 6 - Half Term
Tell us what you have been doing this week
What did you learn this week?
What did you find difficult this week?
Week 7
Tell us what you have been doing this week
The GNAAS team came in to do an assembly for the whole school. We introduced the assembly telling everyone what we have been doing and about our event at Lingholm.
We did our selling and crafting event at Lingholm.
What did you learn this week?
What the air ambulance does and how much money it needs to keep going every year.
What our money will be spent on.
Customer service.
Money skills.
What did you find difficult this week?
Being brave to speak in front of the whole school.
Getting cold and wet running our stall and craft workshops.
We were a bit disappointed that we didn’t get many customers like we did at the market.
Meeting Miles and the Air Ambulancecteam
Helping people with the crafts.
Week 8
Tell us what you have been doing this week
As the weather had been bad for our Lingholm event we decided to have one last go at making some money for our charities.
We moved the scarecrow trail to school and Jenny suggested we made it half price as a special offer in the final week.
We set up stalls to sell our last few products.
As A has asked every meeting if we can sell ice lollies and because the weather forecast is finally improving we decided to use some of our profits to buy ice lollies to sell after school.
What did you learn this week?
How to write an invoice as Jenny came in and gave us a list of the items that had been bought through their till at Lingholm.
Jenny also answered our question of 'How do we get a business to grow and be successful'
What did you find difficult this week?
Week 9
Tell us what you have been doing this week
Counting the money. Making the final video. Reflecting on the project.
What did you learn this week?
How to count money correctly into the money bags. How to work out profit. How to make a video.
What did you find difficult this week?
Not giggling on the video. The money was smelly. How to put the video together.
For pupils to answer:
In one sentence please tell us what bright stars has meant to you?
We have worked together as a team and now we know what it means to run a business that also helps the environment.
For teachers to answer:
Can you tell us the impact this programme has had on your school?
It has been great to see the children be so enthusiastic and engaged throughout the project, often participating in activities out of their usual curriculum.
They have learnt so much about marketing, business structure and finance.
The whole school and community really got on board and helped our children to feel like successful entrepreneurs.
Their enthusiasm about promoting the products they had handmade, and their beaming smiles when they made a sale was lovely to see.
Some of the children were a little bit nervous about interacting with people at our market stall but by the end of the morning, and then again, at Lingholm they really grew in confidence with their interactions, money skills and customer service.
Although the weather put a dampener on our garden project at Lingholm, we are going to take the children for another go at setting it up in July. We hope our school garden at Lingholm can continue to teach future generations about sustainability.
We often hear the air ambulance flying over so the whole school assembly helped everyone to learn about it's role. Plus it was great fun and not too many children guessed it was our headteacher dressed up as the mascot!
Even though the project has finished our PTA have asked if the team can still run a stall at the school Summer fair because they have heard such good things about them.
We are really proud of the contributions of every member of the team, and are sure we have some future Alan Sugars amongst them!
Please provide your business plan.
Please provide your marketing plan.
Please provide your finance report/template.
Charity name/money donated to.
GNAAS
Final profit (minus the £50 seed funding).
£780.87
