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Enterprise activities

The acquisition of enterprise knowledge, skills and attitudes can occur through subjects across the curriculum, discrete teaching of enterprise and pupils' wider activities.

Enterprise education requires pupils to have opportunities to apply what they have learnt through the enterprise process.
Key enterprise activities include:

Examples of enterprise activities that lend themselves to this holistic approach include:
  • Simulations: pupils engage in an enterprise activity in a controlled, simulated environment, which can vary from mini-enterprises, where pupils establish a company to provide a service or manufacture, market and sell a product, to activities where pupils design a solution to meet a business or social need.
  • School-generated projects: schools enable pupils to instigate and manage projects that require them to be enterprising, for example in organising an event or improving the environment. 
  • Real-life situations: opportunities are organised for pupils to experience a real business environment, for example through a visit, work shadowing or placement in a company or social enterprise centre.

Published: 28 September 2005

Last updated: 17 March 2010

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