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class DLE project, 8W have had a busy term taking part in Virgin Bank’s make £5 grow scheme. This scheme gives pupils the opportunity to build their mathematics, literacy, research, team-building and financial skills, whilst giving them a taste of what it is like to be an entrepreneur.
Each pupil was loaned £5 by the bank, which they then had to invest in a business idea so that the £5 would grow and make a profit. The pupils worked in groups to research a business idea and then to complete a business plan which they had to present to the rest of the class and to Mr Johnson. Business logos and adverts were designed, market research was carried out, business letters were written and sourcing of value for money resources was carried out. It was a busy time with all hands on deck to make six businesses succeed within the term!
We had ‘Winter Warmers’ selling hot chocolate to pupils on cold break times, ‘Chantry Car Wash’ taking over the carpark at the back of school to wash cars, ‘Cream Base’ Making and selling bath bombs, ’Christmas Crafters’ decorating and selling Christmas baubles, ‘BBR Popcorn’ selling bags of homemade popcorn and ‘Pop-Diggerty-Dog’ selling popcorn and hot dogs at the end of the school day.
The day we counted up the profits was certainly exciting and we were delighted that every group was able to pay back the bank loan they had been given and be left with a healthy profit.
We plan to spend some of the profits made on well-deserved last day of term treats and then to take a class vote on what we would like to spend the rest on; wet break time resources has been one of the great suggestions made so far.
The first round of the French Spelling Bee took place this week. Pupils in 7C and 7H learnt a bank of 50 words off by heart and had to spell many as they could using the French alphabet in 1 minute.
A huge well done to George and Ella who represented our school at the Local Final of this year’s Future Chef competition at Gateshead college yesterday.
st week, our school Assembly Band went on tour! We visited St Robert’s First school where we accompanied the children singing, played some original compositions by Alex Harrison and Miriam Cummins, and gave demonstrations of the instruments we were playing. We were all a bit nervous at first, but it was a great success. The first school children loved it and have invited us to go back again.
The whole school took part in an Enterprise Day on Friday the 4th of December. The theme for the day was ‘My Teacher is a Vampire’. Students worked in mixed classes so that our year 8 students got the chance to work with year 6 and year 7 students were mixed with year 5. All groups worked in teams to tackle the challenge of marketing and designing books. The activity was run in collaboration with Northumberland Education Business Partnership and local Business Ambassadors.
