We are a newly formed club, made up of Year 7, 8 and 9 students. We are looking to see other great ideas from different schools that might help to inspire us into creating a sustainable project for our school or community. Although in our infancy, we have some great ideas we would like to share with other schools to see what they think! Current ideas revolve around healthy eating, the environment and some of your more basic ideas to raise some funds, such as a cinema club.

Marden High School has been up and running with the Make Your Mark Challenge as of November 2005. We managed to run the event with a large number of Business Studies students and they had such a good experience we extended the challenge to the whole year 10 yeargroup for 2006 and 2007. Our winning team of students came up with a fantastic idea of a talking toothbrush which was carefully researched and thoughtfully financed. Meanwhile Year 9 Gifted and Talented students are developing an idea for making an MP3 player that can be used in the bath! They did an excellent pitch at the regional final and were almost sent forward to London. We did send them to Coventry!! They had a great day with other MYM teams and enjoyed the trip and the day extensively. We have been able to extend the enterprise activities throughout the school and have valued greatly the input and support from the MYM team. We are looking to bring a group of Year 8 students to the showcase day as they have been working on a DVD to promote the “Look of the Future” for the local region, using CAD, animation and other …

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

An amazing group of fantastic students with brilliant skills and an enthusiastic outlook! We are a Special Needs Secondary school in Stockton. We have 4 companies currently operating in our Upper School. PT Sparx, KB Katz, SB Superstarz and the 15 Honey Bees. PT Sparx are a group of Year 11 Students who have specialised this year in Card Making, Jewellery Making and more recently planning the first ever Abbey Hill Summer Leaving Prom. KB Katz are a group of Year 11 Students who have specialised in Card Making this year. This group also ran a successful whole school Halloween cake sale. SB Superstarz are a group of Year 10 students who have been working on repackaging products to sell. This group also ran an excellent whole school Easter competition. The 15 Honey Bees are a group of Year 10 students who have been working with a professional bee keeper to maintain our on site hives. The bee related products that are currently on sale include borage and flower honey, beeswax candles, beeswax decorations, and more recently honey fudge! We have our own Business Advisor and work in association with Young Enterprise and Make Your Mark. One of our students …