GCSE Business Studies

Presentations, Judges interviews & Tour of Wolverhampton University Campus Priorslee Telford. 9:30 am-3:30pm Wednesday 21 st March 2018. Shropshire CC area schools. The Venue The event was based at Wolverhampton University (Priorslee Campus). It gave the kids a real taste of what life could be like at a place like it. It was a nice early start for the kids that saw Flo running most of the way to school! We arrived in plenty of time and were allocated a room for the day where they could practice in private. The kids had all worked very hard to learn their parts so that they could present without scripts.  They were given just 8 minutes for their first and only practice. They were quite intimidated by the location in one of the University lecture theatres. They had developed their presentation using Prezi in order to add a 'wow' factor, it worked, the judges were very impressed, not only with the presentation itself but with the obvio

Trade Fairs Well a lot has happened since my last post. The kids have been knuckling down and creating their products and marketing materials in preparation for their very first foray into selling to the public.  Darwin Center - Shrewsbury On Saturday the 10th of February they will be attending the Young Enterprise national Trade Fair which is being held at the Darwin Center, Shrewsbury. Team A have evolved into Wishful Thinking who are selling personalised wish bottles.  Team B have evolved into 21Severn and are selling personalised jute bags, (design to be confirmed.) The Day Unfortunately only Wishful Thinking made it to the fair. However, the kids were very keen and arrived very early and were in fact the first school out of 29 to arrive! They enjoyed the day and learned a lot about running a public facing enterprise which they took through into the second fair. They made multiple sales and confidence was high. Telford Shopping Center The second fair to