Students in Year 9 and above can set up their own businesses, trading in school, and there is a venture fund to support them. Our students, both past and present have gained a great deal from such activities as Young Enterprise, Year 9 Co-Op Challenge, forming their own Mini-Enterprises, Year 12 Accounting Day, to name but a few! As part of the Business Studies Department we also run an Economic Awareness club. We have lots of school businesses running, we have also created an eco-garden. We have now gone into partnership with a local business in the hospitality industry and within a social enterprise frame. Check out our website to see the press release!

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 setting up a school shop and have got local support from HSBC and Business Link. We also coordinate a regional network that supports the delivery of high quality continuing professional development in Enterprise Education for all teachers, leaders and support staff in Luton and Bedfordshire.

RYAN, please update this section! Yr 7 has just started My Bank and they have lots of small little businesses there. We also have more long term enterprise happening as well.

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 …

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We are an enterprise group looking at ways to help inprove our local area. This will involve community projects and getting young people engaged in activities. Our Mascot is HUYE the fish!

Our team started work before Christmas, preparing promotional material for 2008 National Year of Reading. We’ve organised a Big Book Swap for World Book Day, designed a programme for a community event at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, are about to start batch production of our NYR bookmark. We’ve just run a quiz for Health Living Week and are looking forward to meeting you all at the MAKE YOUR MARK NATIONAL MEET-UP! Oh, and as well as opening a college shop in September we’re organising Enterprise Week for November!…