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Week 1
Team name: The Crafty Badgers
Tell us what you have been doing this week
Introduced to Bright Stars.
Learnt what a social enterprise is.
What did you learn this week?
What a social enterprise is.
What did you find difficult this week?
Nothing. We are all excited to get started.
Becks told us all about the clothes she has made and the projects she has run
Becks worked with us to gather our ideas for our project
Week 2
Tell us what you have been doing this week
We met our business mentor Becks from Hardheads Heritaged.
We thought of ideas for our business.
We decided to have a caricature photo booth at our village May Day and then make crafts to sell at another time.
What did you learn this week?
About the 5 P’s.
What did you find difficult this week?
Deciding on who to donate our money to.
Week 3
Tell us what you have been doing this week
We looked at different local charities and decided to raise money for Penrith Mountain Rescue. We emailed them to see if they would come and talk to us about what they do.
Becks talked to us about the different job roles in a business and decided who was going to have each role.
What did you learn this week?
The structure of a business.
What different charities do within our community.
What did you find difficult this week?
Deciding exactly what crafts we are going to make.
Becks helped us learn about the different job roles in a business.
May Day Photo Booth
Our Crafty Badgers logo
Week 4
Tell us what you have been doing this week
We have been making our Photo Booth ready for May Day and practising our caricatures.
We have designed a ladybird for making keyrings and decided which products we are going to make.
Becks has talked to us about our business plan and finances.
On May Day we made £42 with our Photo Booth.
What did you learn this week?
How to write a business plan.
How to work out profit.
Voting for best product.
What did you find difficult this week?
Choosing which designs to go for.
Week 5
Tell us what you have been doing this week
We have been making our products ready to sell.
We counted our profit from our Photo Booth - £42!
We wrote our business plan.
What did you learn this week?
How to sew on an old Singer sewing machine.
How to work out our profit from our original float.
What did you find difficult this week?
N/A
Sewing our bookmarks and coasters
Making our baggy wreaths
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
We had a brilliant visit from Tess and Paul who volunteer with Penrith Mountain Rescue. They showed us all of their equipment and let us use their gps locators as well as letting Nicole have a ride on the stretcher.
Jessica brought in the lazer cut keyrings so that we could add the final touches.
We made posters, emails and Facebook posts to advertise our product sale.
What did you learn this week?
A lot about what the mountain rescue do!
We also met online with Becks who told us about marketing.
What did you find difficult this week?
The keyrings were a bit fiddly!
Tess and Paul from Penrith Mountain Rescue came to tell us about the volunteer work they do.
We attached the metal rings to our ladybird keyrings.
Here are some of our crafts!
Week 8
Tell us what you have been doing this week
We had our sale of our crafts. Unfortunately Sports Day was cancelled so part of our sales plan couldn’t go ahead but we adapted and sold some of the products on the school playground at hometime.
Despite this we managed to sell most things and made £115!
What did you learn this week?
To be adaptable in your plans.
What did you find difficult this week?
Perfecting the final version of our video!
Week 9
Tell us what you have been doing this week
Becks came to see us one last time. We gave her a thank you card and presents.
What did you learn this week?
The importance of thanking those who help us.
What did you find difficult this week?
Deciding how to spend the money. As a class we couldn’t think of a good thing to use our half of the money for. Eventually we decided we should donate the whole amount to Penrith Mountain Rescue.
For pupils to answer:
In one sentence please tell us what bright stars has meant to you?
For teachers to answer:
Can you tell us the impact this programme has had on your school?
This project created a real buzz of excitement in Badger Class. The children were engaged, eager and enthusiastic to take part.
Please provide your business plan.
Please provide your marketing plan.
Please provide your finance report/template.
Charity name/money donated to.
Penrith Mountain Rescue
Final profit (minus the £50 seed funding).
£157
Prize categories and reasons
Best team work, collaboration and leadership
We worked together as a team to make our products.
We took turns to draw caricatures at Mayday using a timetable agreed together.
We all did our roles but were adaptable to help each other.
We discussed options and voted to make major decisions as a team.
Most profitable social enterprise
We didn’t use any of the £50 seed money as we were fortunate to have donations from parents of our materials.
We had a £157 profit.
Best logo and marketing campaign
Our Crafty Badgers logo was unique and amazing!
We worked hard to advertise through posters, emails and social media.
