Sponsors
Week 1
Team name: Holly Class
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we have been creating ideas for our project and thinking about the benefits to each idea. We have met our business partner for the first time and got to know each other well.
What did you learn this week?
We have learnt about what a business is and what a business needs in order to be successful. We have also found out what a social enterprise is and identified many of these within our community.
What did you find difficult this week?
We found it difficult at first to think of ideas for our project and how we could ensure that our idea was going to have a positive environmental impact.
Week 2
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we have been brainstorming ideas for our project. We have come to a final decision to make ice lollies for our project and sell them at various events we are having in school soon.
What did you learn this week?
We learnt about finances and about the different types of business there are in our community.
What did you find difficult this week?
We found it difficult to come up with ideas that were practical.
Week 3
Tell us what you have been doing this week
We have been learning about the different roles that you may have in different businesses. We then filled in an application for the role that we wanted in the project and decided on these roles.
What did you learn this week?
We have learnt about the roles in businesses and what qualities and responsibilities you would need for each roll.
What did you find difficult this week?
Deciding on a roll as most children wanted to be either a manager or on the production team. We spoke about how each roll is very important.
Week 4
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we have been developing our business including creating a name and finalising our business plan.
What did you learn this week?
We have learnt about how to create a business plan and how each part of the plan is crucial for a successful business.
What did you find difficult this week?
Week 5
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week we have been producing some of our product to do a small sale tat sports day to gauge interest and gain feedback in order to improve our product.
What did you learn this week?
We learnt about how to advertise our product and also the importance of good customer service in order to create a good amount of sales.
What did you find difficult this week?
Creating our product in a large amount.
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 have been looking at the profit we made from selling our product on sport day before half-term. The children were very proud of themselves for managing to sell out. We looked at our strengths and weaknesses and how we could improve when we are selling them over the next couple of weeks. We have also looked at our mission statement and how we can raise awareness for our chosen charity.
What did you learn this week?
We have learnt about how to evaluate our product and our own customer service when selling our product. We have learnt about the importance of companies having mission statements and how we can ensure that our company is raising awareness for our chosen charity.
What did you find difficult this week?
We found it difficult to evaluate ourselves and think of ways to improve our customer service.
Our ice lolly stall at Sports Day.
Week 8
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week our business partner was unfortunately unable to attend so we worked as a class to evaluate our sales from Sports Day and looked at how we could make a bigger profit from our sales.
What did you learn this week?
We learnt what a profit was and how we could ensure we make the biggest profit through our business.
What did you find difficult this week?
Evaluating ourselves was difficult.
Week 9
Tell us what you have been doing this week
This week was our last week with our business partner. We spent some time looking at AECOM and what it does as a company. We also made our video, explaining what we had learnt from the Bright Stars experience.
What did you learn this week?
We learnt about our business partner's job and what she does in this job. We also learnt how to evaluate ourselves and how to use this evaluation to improve our future work.
What did you find difficult this week?
we found it hard to be critical about ourselves but learnt that it is essential to be critical in order to improve.
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?
Please provide your business plan.
Please provide your marketing plan.
Please provide your finance report/template.
Charity name/money donated to.
We are supporting Animal Concern Cumbria: 1161354 We will also be using our profit made from this task to buy resources needed for our school for our learning.
Final profit (minus the £50 seed funding).
£123.40
Prize categories and reasons
Best team work, collaboration and leadership
We have selected Team Work as the award we want to win as we think we worked really well as a team. As a class we have not done many tasks that require us working as a full class so it is something we have had to learn to do. When selecting our roles, we did really well to share out responsibilities
Most profitable social enterprise
We only spent £10 of our seed money and still managed to make a very good profit.
Best logo and marketing campaign
we spent a lot of time working on our advertisement posters and worked well as a class to design the logo for our product.
