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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. These 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.
 The business simulation involved pupils in problem evaluation, processing information, agreeing and taking action – working as a team, applying what they learnt about business and economics…
  • School-generated projects: schools enable pupils to instigate and manage projects which require them to be enterprising, for example in organising an event, improving the environment. 
 Pupils took responsibility for a project agreed by the school council that could make the school a better place. The manager of a local enterprise centre came in to run sessions on project management
  • '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

 In getting pupils involved in ‘real-life’ business things – engaging in activities on company premises - motivation is really beginning to improve and this has a positive affect on their general learn

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