Monday 2 - Wednesday 4 July 2007
The Blue Skies Enterprise Challenge was successfully delivered to 3 primary schools in the town of Shrewsbury in Shropshire. The students dealt with the business challenge well in their teams and highly recommended it to other students saying that they would 'definitely want to be involved with Blue Skies again'.
This is now available to order as a CD resource. For more details click on Primary Enterprise Challenge.
Friday 19 October 2007
The Blue Skies Enterprise Challenge entered its 3rd phase with the sixth form edition being piloted at a college in Telford, Shropshire. The event ran very smoothly and was extremely successful with the group of lower sixth Applied Business students with 97% of students being happy with the event as a whole. Staff were extremely happy with the event and felt that it helped students' understanding with concepts that they had learnt so far.
This is now available to order as a CD resource. For more details click on Sixth Form Enterprise Challenge.
Friday 16 November 2007
The Blue Skies Stock Market Challenge was piloted at a school in Shrewsbury, Shropshire and had a great rating from students that took part with 93% of students being happy with the event as a whole. Feedback was very positive with a number of students wanting a 2 day event. This is a possibility should anyone request it. The Stock Market Challenge was run with a top set maths class who are all targeted at least a grade A. This was run as part of a scheme to raise motivation, esteem and A*/A grades.
This is now available to order as a CD resource. For more details click on Stock Market Challenge.
Tuesday 11 March 2008
2 schools are working together in order to produce a DVD resource for schools to use when training staff in the use of the Blue Skies Stock Market Challenge. Thomas Adams School, a Media College, in Wem, visited The Priory School, a Business & Enterprise College, with 30 of their Y11 students to video the resource being used. The DVD is now in production and will be ready to order at the end of the end of the summer term.
This is now available to order as a CD resource. For more details click on Stock Market Challenge.