North East Students Get Out of the Classroom to Make Their Tenners Grow!
April 7th, 2010 by Amelia
An entire school of enterprising students from Blakeston School in Stockton turned their assembly hall into a bustling marketplace for the day as part of the national Make your Mark with a Tenner competition, and I was there to witness the madness! During the last Friday of the Tenner Challenge Month all 585 students from Blakestone School were given the day off lessons to exhibit their enterprising business ideas and sell them to the public.
The products and services for sale had all been carefully planned and produced by the students either on their own or in groups using their individual £10 loan with the aim of generating as much profit and social impact as possible.
One group already making a profit on their Tenner are the year 7 students in the picture above who had used the money to design and make Easter cards and sold them to fellow students, friends and family.
Other enterprising ideas the students created with their Tenner included, a chocolate and cake-making business, a biscuit and smoothie company, a florist, a stationery supplies stall, a nail polishing service, a shoe shiner, a hair accessories and jewellery stall, and the one that took all of my pocket money when I visited; the beautifully designed monster mugs!
Blakestone Academy head of ICT David Allen said: “The students were given a day’s reprieve from lessons to buy and sell products at our Make your Mark with a Tenner marketplace. Over 20 individual market stalls run by students were set out in the school hall and it was even open to the public for a few hours.
“This gave them real life trading skills and an authentic taste for running their own enterprise. It has also shown them that you can become an entrepreneur with a very small amount of money.”
Over 30,000 students across the UK have taken part in the month-long national Make your Mark with a Tenner competition, where they have been challenged to make as much profit and social impact with their Tenner over the four weeks as possible. Any profits are kept by the students to be either ploughed back into their business or donated to a good cause.
Well done Mr Allan and all of the Blakeston School Entrepreneurs!
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