Skylarks class have been very busy with our Dragons’
Den topic. In maths we carried out some market research about popular board
games. We then worked in groups to design and make our own ones.
We watched some clips from Dragons’ Den and we learnt
a lot about setting up a business. We wrote some very persuasive sales pitches
for our games, which we performed to the scary dragons! They were very
impressed and made lots of investments!
We also took part in the Fiver Challenge, run by Young
Enterprise. The challenge is to start with £5 and make as much profit as
possible. As we had already made our own board games, we decided to host a
board game café in the hall. We spent our £5 on squash, plastic cups and
napkins and then we all went home and made our own delicious cakes, cookies and
brownies to sell. We named our business ‘Game On’ and William and Reuben
designed excellent logos for the competition. We put up some posters around the
local area to advertise our event.
On
Tuesday 27th June, we set up our board game café in the hall. We ran
the whole thing ourselves, including working out the change for refreshments,
and explaining the rules of our games to customers. It was an enormous success!
Each class had an opportunity to come and play our games and buy drinks and
snacks and then we opened up the café to parents and everyone else at the end
of the day. We had lots of positive feedback and we managed to raise a whopping
£231.12!
Thank you to everyone who came to support us,
especially the parents who helped make cakes and those who gave up their time
to help pack away all the tables at the end of a very long afternoon!
Well done
Skylarks!
