Using the Apprentice Planning

Even though I wasn't able to finish the Apprentice planning like I wanted Paul still managed to make some use out of it.  He's emailed what he did and I'd thought I'd share it with you so you can see the success he had:

The week before the children were told that they were to be given £5 and told that they would have to plan an enterprise that would try and make them the most profit possible (The incentive that any profit they would make would be spend on them really engaged them!). They then had a week to plan, purchase whatever they wanted to run a 'stall' etc on our apprentice day. Over the next few days chidlren planned their idea, sorted out advertising around the school etc

On the day itself the children had just under an hour to set up all of their 'stalls' We then set them a 30 minute time window where they could sell their products/run their stalls.  I invited the Y6 parents along as well as well as children from the other classes along.

It was organised chaos! The children excelled themselves with what they had organised, the other children from the other classes and the parents really enjoyed the experience.

Some of the ideas the children put together were:

Chocolate fountain (Always a firm favourite!)
White elephant stall
Guess number of sweets in jar
Teddy bear raffle
Lots of computer games set up on the whiteboards where the children paid to have a go using consoles such as Wii's, Playstations, dance mats etc eauty salon (nails being painted/facials etc)
Guess the weight of the cake
Wacky dohnuts (children had to try and bite the dohnuts off a suspended wire with their hands behind their head!)

The children had loads of other ideas planned such as throwing sponges at them in the stocks, radio controlled car races etc but due to the bad weather we had to run everything indoors! Which was a shame as I had already picked which hildren would go into the stocks! :-)

It was great just 'sitting back' so to speak and watching my class run the morning themselves.

They made £230 in the 30 mins we ran the event for! An amazing achievement considering we are only a 1 form entry school and that we ran it on a monday morning with lots of children forgetting to bring in money!

Once we took off all the £5's I gave them at the beginning for the 8 groups they made an overall profit of £190 between them!

I'm going to use the money to take them all to the cinema to see Harry Potter  and the Order of the Phoenix on the afternoon after their leavers assembly. (Which we are also basing on the Apprentice Theme!) We should even have enough money to stretch to buying some popcorn too!

It was a great experience both for myself and for the children. Its just a pity that its my last year in Y6 (moving to Y4 in sept) as it would probably have become a regular feature at the end of the year.

Well done Paul!