We have a young enterprise group who make goods and sell them.

At Higham Lane School we have established five student-run businessess. During Enterprise Week 2006 we generated ideas through a school-wide speednetworking session. Over 1000 students were involved in the speednetworking and the best ideas that came out of the activity were used as the basis for these businesses

Hi we are Hartshill Make Your Mark Club so far this term we have been working together every Tuesday lunchtime to design our own club logo, to design an boardgame for and Enterprise challenge and have discussed as a team how to improve the school grounds. Our next big challenge is to get a small business going, we have a dress hire business that will be running from September and are now looking into selling paintings.

Old Swinford Hospital is a secondary school attempting to launch school businesses. We have independent advisers and offer funding to students’ enterprise ideas. We run a Business Challenge in conjunction with Edgbaston High School for Girls and local businesses at the the end of each lower sixth year. The programme allows the students from both schools to collaberate on real world problems with such companies as Cadbury’s, the NHS, Armed Forces Careers and Royal Mail. We have also set up the OSH Community. This organisation is here to maintain communication and relationships with local businesses and other schools. It encompasses such schemes as Beacon, Enterprise Learning Pathfinder and our links with St John’s Senior Secondary School, Uganda and Pen’s Meadow School.

We are a group of year ten students who have formed an enterprise group called “Purple Banana”. We have received funding from the school and so far have done a Christmas fair, from which we were able to fund further enterprise projects. This has then allowed us to do our next project of selling homemade toiletries to the pupils of our school for Mother’s Day. We have now got together with the music department, for whom we are going to design and create a CD cover. The CD cover will then be used for the music the year 7 choir have composed and sung. Through our help with this enterprise project they will then be able to go on and sell their CD and enter further competitions.

The Sky High Enterprise Village was established by the school following Enterprise Week 2005. It is a retail park based in the quad of the school. Sustainable and student-run businesses operate from retail units during break times. Businesses include ‘Key Kings’ selling personalised key rings, as well as ‘The Cave’ which is a stationery shop. Our businesses are run as co-operatives.

GCSE Applied Business Students run their own Social Enterprise as a young cooperative: activities include fair Trade stalls, offering business guidance to year 7 and Campaigns for ethical decisions on carbon emmissions.