Suitable for primary and secondary schools.
The aim of this course is to inspire pupils showing them that with just a smidgen of passion and drive they can achieve their goals. We demonstrate across a variety of topics and tasks that everyone has skills that can be developed which increases confidence and ultimately to improved self-belief.
This course gets students to create a healthy food product e.g. a snack bar or drink and take it to market to sell for a profit. Each week, over a 10 – 12 week course, we teach a different topics from teamwork, recipe concoction, design, finance, marketing etc.. We divide the pupils into teams so they compete against each other. The course involves some exciting elements as seen in the famous programmes ‘The Apprentice’ and ‘Dragons’ Den’. Classmates battle against each other to become the winning team to then enter the inter-school competition which culminates in a presentation to a panel of ‘dragons’ at the Millfield Theatre Edmonton.. Our panel of judges are local entrepreneurs and influential business people.
Over the 5 years that we have taught our Enterprise course we are proud to see the impact it has created. It has been so popular we have returned to schools and there are waiting lists for us to teach further years. Our course is flexible so we have been able to tailor it to different types of cohorts including special needs schools. Recently we have developed the course to work alongside the Btech course so that it fulfils both the Plannng and Running an Enterprise modules.
