“Hi everyone, I am going to introduce you to my fabulous team.” (Student, Townsend)

Students from Benthal and Townsend primary schools pitched their ideas to a panel of judges from UBS. The students, mixed from both schools into teams, had been participating in an enterprise challenge all day and had some brilliant ideas to share. How [...]

It was a pleasure to welcome Year 6 students from St Matthew’s Primary to the offices of GE Capital in Hammersmith. The visit would be a test of students’ creativity and problem solving stills as teams competed to come up with the best ideas for the Awards Event for the company.

Having considered why business reward [...]

“It was eye opening to see the students develop outside the classroom and come somewhere they can aspire to be at in the future”. Gilberstone Primary School Teacher.

It was a pleasure to welcome a mix of Year 5 & 6 students from Oasis Academy Woodview, Gilberstone Primary and Fairway Primary School to the Learning Resource [...]

Students from Year 2 and Year 4 came together and took on the exciting challenge of creating their own card companies, competing to make as much profit as possible. The day was filled with fun and excitement as well as an opportunity to develop key teamworking, leadership and presenting skills, essential for success in the [...]

Worried about finding a unique design for your Christmas or birthday cards this year? Panic not! The students at Ark Tindal spent the day on Friday working as greetings card companies to design, produce and sell their very own range of cards for many different occasions.
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The first challenge of the day
For the first challenge of [...]

On Thursday 11th December, Year 5 students from Belmont Junior School gathered in the hall to find out their special challenge for the day: they had been chosen to create and set up a new society on a distant moon just in case the world ended! The special mission brief unveiled in the assembly to [...]

Year 3 students from John Perryn Primary were met with a fantastic view of the City, as they entered the boardroom at Page Personnel on Thursday to take part in an exciting business challenge. These children had already demonstrated their skills in the classroom and were ready to bring them to the professional world, working [...]

“It was great to see the students develop their presenting skills as their confidence increased through the day – they were full of ideas and were excited to be sharing them” (Volunteer, IBM)
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THE CHALLENGE
With a focus on developing their problem-solving skills, the 20 excited students from Grendon Primary School were set the challenge of planning [...]

On 9th December, students from Downsell Primary Schools learnt all the secrets of how to run a successful advertising campaign at media agency OMD.
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Interviewing volunteers


Students began the day hearing from OMD volunteers about what it was like to work at a media agency, and what innovative advertising campaigns already existed. The first task saw students [...]

Students from Bridge Academy in Hackney recently visited London Business School to complete a young enterprise challenge.

They began the day by meetings volunteers from LBS, who are currently studying for Masters qualifications in Business Administration and Finance. Students interviewed the volunteers to find out more about their background and were interested to hear that people [...]