Enterprise Day took place on Friday 1st February 2019, the theme this year being ‘Build a business’.  Students thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to work within with their house groups and with other year groups.

The event was supported by Carole Richards from Northumberland Education Business and Partnership accompanied by 35 Business Ambassadors who came into school to facilitate the activities and challenges throughout the day.  We would like to extend a huge thank you to Engie, Northumberland County Council, HMRC and DWP for allowing the Business Ambassadors to support the programme.

The aim of the day was for the students to recognise and develop enterprise and employability skills such as team work, innovation, creativity, decision making and problem solving.  Students had different roles, designed a brand as well as developing prototypes before pitching their product in a Dragons Den style presentation to the Business Ambassadors.

Quotes from the day:

‘I loved making a product!’

Today was amazing fun and I enjoyed creating a new brand!’

‘I’ve enjoyed making a TV advert’

‘I like that there’s people from every year and there’s togetherness and teamwork’