This week Year 5 were set a BIG challenge! It was almost as if Sir Alan Sugar himself had been to Brecknock…

In groups or ‘companies’ consisting of a manager, financial director, designer and sales person, the children had to create a calendar business with a view to selling their calendar at market day.

Skills the children have developed include:

– Team work
– Developing a brand (name, logo, slogan, identity)
– Market research (who are we marketing our product / brand too? Which theme is the most popular?)
– Designing (logo, calendar theme, calendar, advertising posters, price labels)
– Accounting (profit / loss, costs, profit margin, sales, blanace ledger)
– Sales (pitching a product to the target audience)
– Product pricing (discounting, offers, value for money)
– Negotiating (as consumers)

We hope you enjoy the pictures of the children ‘wheeling and dealing’ at their market day!