May 2008 - Littleover Community School

The Enterprise Challenge 2008
The 2008 challenge was held on the last day of the Spring Term and was eagerly
awaited by the pupils in Year 10. Judith Gill, of the Money Sense project, kindly
agreed to facilitate the day for the second year running and started the day with
an outline of what had to be achieved in the following three hours.
The brief was the same this year as last: to form a small company and tender for
a catering contract for a special event. The staff attached to the activity proved
themselves to be as enterprising as the pupils in their choice of themes. A school
prom and a birthday celebration at the races at Aintree, joined several themed
birthday parties all incorporating Elvis Presley. Work began immediately the pupils
reached their company HQ (this year resourced with water and mints – conference
style). The morning culminated with each group giving a presentation within their
own base, to find the most appealing entry. Menus were created, business cards
printed, budgets costed and the final letter of tender word processed and
printed; creativity knew no bounds!
After lunch, the year group assembled in the Hall for the presentation of the
winning tenders. The judges; Melanie Goodman and Peter Noskiw, LCS Governors,
along with Claire Knee and Dayna Stubbs from the Derbyshire Education Business
Partnership, found the task of picking an overall winner a hard task.
The day was about learning, but also about having fun. In their evaluations the
pupils drew many parallels between what they felt they had learnt and what they
had enjoyed. These points were expressed many times over:
• “working as a team”
• “presenting”
• “working with different people/working with friends/working together”
• “having fun”
• “being able to work independently”
• “we all had a new experience”
• “having more responsibility”
• “learning new skills”
• “doing something different”
• “all of it”
We shall look forward to the 2009 challenge!
Mrs M Butler
Co-ordinator of PSHE