Enterprise Challenge – All Saint’s

School: All Saints Secondary

Type of Activity: Challenges and Competitions

Name of Employer: King’s Trust

Case Study  

From Periods 1-5, 45 S3 pupils participated in the King’s Trust Enterprise Challenge.  This first started with the staff giving an overview on what the enterprise challenge consists off.  Pupils were then divided into groups of 9 and were tasked with both creating and running a business on the Trusts online business simulation game.  For the final game, each groups point score were recorded.   

After pupils were finished with playing the game, they were then tasked within their groups with the final challenge of either using the business that they created during the simulation game or come up with a new business idea and make up a pitch for their business.  Once each group had come up with a business idea, they then had to pitch this idea as a group to the rest of the class.   

At the end of the session, pupils were told that staff will be in touch with what group they have picked for the best pitch portraying their well thought out business idea and that group will be able to progress on to the next stage of the enterprise challenge which will be to create a business plan surrounding their original business idea and how this could be carried out with the support of the Kings Trust staff.   

Objectives:

Skills Development, Challenges and Competitions, Entrepreneurship, Sector Awareness.  

Results/Outcomes:

• Had an enjoyable experience 

• Gained more confidence in public speaking 

• Developed desirable skills within the business industry 

• Gained valuable knowledge on what it entails to build a business/ empire. 

• Developed skills on how to work well within a group and or team. 

Benefits:

This experience has allowed the pupils to gain valuable knowledge and insight at the basics and initial process of what building a business looks like while also simultaneously developing the desirable set of skills and initiative required to be a successful businessperson.  Pupils were also able to experience first-hand the kinds of competition they will face when building their own business as during the challenge they were competing with not only the other groups within the class but also groups form other schools when pitching their business to be picked for the next stage of the competition.