Last week in Year 3, we had loads of fun making character bookmarks for Enterprise Week.
Before we started to think of a name for our company, we needed to know what our product was going to be. We had loads of bookmarks to choose from including monster bookmarks, panda bookmarks, penguin bookmarks, unicorn bookmarks, outer space and rocket bookmarks and more. We held a vote and the majority of us voted for character bookmarks, which meant we could be creative with the sort of characters we would try to create.
Now it was time for a company name: there were loads of great suggestions and we voted ‘Best Bookmarks Ever!’ We also voted for a catchy slogan and a logo which would grab the attention of our customers.
Once we had our product, business name, slogan and logo, it was time to think about how we would attract customers: the advert, of course. On Tuesday, we analysed examples of adverts and discussed what makes an advert effective; we came up with our own ideas for adverts; we wrote scripts for our adverts and we filmed scenes which were edited together ready to be shown to the school on Wednesday morning. We filmed several scenes and included persuasive language such as bossy statements and rhetorical questions.
Thank you very much to the parents who came in on Wednesday morning to tell us about their amazing careers, which were very inspirational for the children. We were excited to see our advert in assembly and after it was shown to the rest of the school along with the adverts from every other class, we took our orders and got to work making the bookmarks. They could be quite fiddly but everyone did a brilliant job and with the help of our parents on Thursday morning, we had more than enough product to cover our orders!
We learned a lot about what it takes to create a business, the importance of democracy, the necessity for Mathematics and English in business and we used all of our learning powers throughout the week: resilience, resourcefulness, reciprocity and reflectiveness. After tallying our total orders and offsetting the cost of the resources (£25 was spent on origami paper, sequin, googly eyes and lolly sticks), we discovered that we had made a profit, which we can spend on something for the classroom!
