Case Studies

Eureka’s Business and Enterprise Project – Final Competition
Maple Primary School

Having described how successful Eureka’s Business and Enterprise trading day was in our last case study (see below), the final competition of Eureka’s Business & Enterprise project among Year 6 students @ Maple School was as impressive as the trade day.

The final competition was in the form of a presentation and took place on 23rd June 2010 @ Maple School where both Year 5 & Year 6 students took part. Eureka judges Donna, Patricia and Jana participated in this event and were impressed by the lively and professional way the presentations were delivered.  

  
  

Six teams - Sweet Stuff, Nice Cream, Funky Fruit, X-Treme Style, Quake Shark and Style Sensation - presented on the stage in turns. The presentation itself demonstrated the students’ great team work skills with good delegation tasks for each presenter. Students were wearing their marketing t-shirt and sandwich board, holding their posters and advertisements on the stage. The presentations were well structured with informative content and brilliantly delivered with the use of drama, dancing and singing. Presenters smartly handled judges and audiences’ questions and showed full competence in running and managing their businesses. 

     
   

The final result of each team’s business project considered the business project as a whole over the last 6 months:

It is worth mentioning that each team had a surprising turnover and made profit from their business (see Table below)

 Team Nice Cream Sweet Stuff Funcky Fruits  Quake Shake   Style Sensation X-Treme Style 
 Turnover  82.94  67.05  45.64  40.96  37.85  34.16
 Rank  No. 1 No. 2  No. 3  No. 4  No. 5  No. 6 

Having considered all the aspects that show students’ business and enterprise skills, team work skills and presentation skills, Eureka judges awarded the Winning Team to Sweet Stuff; Nice Cream were runners up, and third place went to Style Sensation! Prizes (books) and winning certificates were awarded to the winning team and runner-up team members. Congratulations are due to all the teams who did a fantastic job! Eureka believes that Maple School Year 5 students must have learned a lot from how well their seniors have done. 

 
 
The success that Maple School year 6 students achieved demonstrates how Eureka brings real commercial expertise and business experience into the class room and makes it part of young people’s learning experience. Eureka believes that the success the Year 6 students achieved through Eureka’s Business and Enterprise project will help them develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes to succeed in the future.

 

Should you interested in our Business and Enterprise programmes, please contact Donna Cranny, Eureka manager on 07758 414 091 or 017 27 83 23 51 or email dcranny@eurekaschools.co.uk.
For more information, please visit our website: www.eurekaschools.co.uk.

 

 

Eureka End of Term Activity - Speaking Competition

Eureka's Voluntary Community Service @ Maple Primary School

On 9th June 2010, Eureka voluntarily ran a successful speaking competition with coaching for Year 5 & 6 students @ Maple Primary School. Eureka coaches Patricia, Donna and Kathryn ran this Event. 

The event started with interesting and engaging exercises in voice, breathing, body language and handling nerves, all of which are important for a speaker to make a good speech. Through these sessions, students not only had fun but also learned a lot of the important aspects enabling them to make an impressive speech.   

After a break, each student made a ‘Just a Minute Practice’. First, each student was asked to come up with a topic, write it down and put it in a hat. Then, each of them had to randomly pick one topic and do a ‘one-minute’ speech in the front of the other teams. After each speech, Eureka coaches pointed out each speaker’s good practices and shared these with others; on the contrary, negative points were discouraged and made speakers and audience students aware.  The speaker was given a chance to do a self-evaluation. Under Eureka coaches’ instruction, positive and negative points of each student’s presentation were collected from the audience. Feedback made students aware of their own strengths and weaknesses, and ideas of how to make a good speech.

         

Back from lunch break, the preliminary competition started amongst 14 groups. With the objective to enhance students’ presentation skills as well as team work, groups of 4 students were comprised of 2 from Year 5 and 2 from Year 6. Among the 4 group members, students had to nominate 1 as the Chair, 1 main speaker, 1 question handler, 1 closer with equal delegation tasks on one speech topic. Each group was given an equal amount of time for their presentation and rehearsal, while Eureka coaches went around to each team, observing and offering valuable comments and advice.

Under Eureka coaches’ training and nurturing, the preliminary presentation competition went impressively well. Presentation topics were timely, popular and interesting, from big topics like The Forthcoming World Cup, Global Warming and Music to daily discussions like schools uniforms, mobile phones and computer games. The way each student presented was extremely impressive: the fluency, confidence and team work; the correct use of voice, body language, demonstration and eye contact; the appropriate use of questions, and the professionalism, all of which made the Eureka coaches very proud.  

At the end of the presentation, top performance teams went through to the final round of the competition were announced.  Eureka is looking forward to coming back for the final competition - date to be confirmed. 

Eureka believes that successful speakers can make great presenters and can be trained when they are young.

 

If you are interested in presentation coaches or end of term activities, please contact Donna Cranny, Eureka manager on 07758 414 091 or email dcranny@eurekaschools.co.uk.

For general information, please visit our website @ www.eurekaschools.co.uk or follow our blog @ http://schoolslightbulbmoment.blogspot.com 

Eureka's Programmes to Support NEET Young People

Enfield Youth Support Services on a NEET Project

The issue of 1 million plus “NEET” young people is a huge one for the young people themselves and the country.  It represents a huge potential talent pool of under-utilised young people in Britain! The Government spends £35 million pounds on NEET young people's Job Seekers Allowance PER WEEK!

Eureka, as a training business, is dedicated to helping NEET young people and has brought business, enterprise and life skill training to NEET young people in many areas. In March, Eureka collaborated with Enfield Youth Support Services on a project supporting NEET young people. A series of three module programmes were delivered on the topics of:

  • Aspirations and Barriers
  • Employability
  • Money Management

The Enfield programme was designed to work with NEET young people on developing relevant and pragmatic skills and attitudes. This tailored made programme enabled the young people to increase their awareness of their options, build their confidence, their skills and set to set positive life goals that will lead to their future economic well being.

The programme received positive feedback from young people:

  • "I liked the Dream & Barriers Workshop because it helped me to realise I can do anything and be anything I want to be".
  • "I thought the workshop was good and fun. It gets us involved in money, employability and what we want to do as a career in a enjoyable way"
  • "I loved the workshop because it was very helpful to me. It helped me to understand new things".
  • "It was very helpful and I have learned so much from it. It’s a very big achievement and great experience".
  • "It helped me with knowing what I have to do before I go and face the world".
  • "I enjoyed talking about different matters and ideas, because it was good to talk about what you could do about money matters, interviews and other things"
  • "It was very helpful; made me confident and getting me to think more into things and ways with work and money"
  • "I enjoyed all of the workshops, because they were not just informative and helpful but they were also fun to be a part of."

Also Eureka was invited to work on additional projects to support and coach these NEET young people. 

“The modern world needs not muscle but brains, the new generation needs to be proficient in business, technology and sales, more than anything; young people need to be good communicators and able to deal with people.” From Fran Abram’s book “Learning to Fail” 

We'd love to meet with you to discuss your particular challenges and explore ways in which we could add value to your already successful work with NEET young people.

To find out How Eureka can help, Please contact Donna Cranny 

T: 01727 850668
M: 07758 414091
E: dcranny@eurekaschools.co.uk
W: www.eurekaschools.co.uk 

 

 

Hasmonean High School and Eureka Schools

Eureka Enterprise for School with our Feeder Primary Schools 

On Wednesday 20th May 2009, Hasmonean High School welcomed four of our primary feeder schools to come and take part in an ICT workshop run by Eureka. The four schools that took part were:

 

  • Hasmonean Primary School
  • Rosh Pinah Primary
  • North West Jewish Day
  • Menorah Foundation School

Hasmonean Primary School  

The workshop was based on a mixture of ICT, Business Studies and Maths. The students had to create business ideas and develop them. At the end of the workshop they all had to do a presentation on their company stating what they were called, their companies logo, what they specialise in and where they could be located/how they could be contacted. All of the students' ideas were outstanding. Some of the ideas were airlines, bakery's electronic warehouses, and more.
At the end of the workshop the pupils were asked to fill out an evaluation form on how they thought the workshop had went.

The following graphs show the girls response to the workshop.

Almost all of the girls said that the sessions were ‘Brilliant’ and they thoroughly enjoyed them. This was shown by their full participation is the entire workshop. They produced very informative presentations and their business ideas were very creative.


Here we see that a lot of the pupils thought that this workshop, and workshops like this are useful for the future. This is good, as all of the students feel that a business background will be essential in the future, despite what area of expertise they decide to go into in the future, they feel that this is a beneficial area to know about.


Overall, the response to the workshop was very positive, and all of the students enjoyed their time in the workshop.

 

Maple Primary School - St Albans, Herts

Eureka's Business & Enterprise Training @ Maple Primary School

Problem
Maple school had an "Outstanding" rating from their Ofsted review; just one area in which they, like many other schools, could improve, was to provide more ways to learn about business and enterprise!

Solution

Outcome
Quote from Head Teacher - Tim Bowen:-

"Eureka have helped us to tick the box in terms of Ofsted requirements. However the programs have exceeded our expectations and we liked it so much, we have rebooked for the academic year of 2008/2009"

Actual quotes from the Maple pupils:-

Other quotes from Head Teachers:-

March 2008 - "An excellent day. The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves and I had some parents at parents' evening commenting about how enthused the children had been!"

March 2008 - "The Eureka Primary Program with our Year 5 was the highlight of our school year" Give us a call on the number below if you would like us to support your school's enterprise initiatives.

June 2009-

 

Donna Cranny -Mobile: - 07758 414091 or email: - dcranny@eurekaschools.co.uk

 

Rosh Pinah Primary School - London

Eureka's Enterprise Initiative Training Feedback from Rosh Pinah Primary School

Actual quotes from the Pupils:-

Actual quotes from the Teachers:-

So give us a call on the number below if you would like us to support your school's enterprise initiatives.

Donna Cranny -Mobile: - 07758 414091 or email: - dcranny@eurekaschools.co.uk

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