Senior School
Senior School Young Enterprise
'Bloomin Elle', South Yorkshire Young Enterprise Champions celebrating their win at Doncaster Rugby Club
Young Enterprise is an exciting opportunity for our students to run a real business and it is a vibrant activity within our Sixth Form community.
We also have girls in the Senior School below Sixth Form age who are keen to take part in Young Enterprise and we encourage this interest. Each year, these GCSE students take part in the ‘Coca Cola Challenge’.
YPC Ltd were chosen by the Coca-Cola Enterprise panel of judges to represent Sheffield at the Yorkshire Regional finals. As part of the challenge, YPC were set the task of organising a prestigious international conference where delegates from 120 countries across the world will gather in the city of Sheffield to mark Coca-Cola’s sponsorship of the 2012 Olympic Games. The Real Business Challenge final will be hosted at Doncaster Race Course by Rebecca Romero, the first British woman to win medals in two different sports at the Olympic Games. Team members were Katie Rendall, Charlotte Atkin, Beth Thomasson, Francesca Marshall, Nicky Herring, Izzi Cocker, Ellie Broadberry and Sophie Waring.
The Coca-Cola Enterprise Challenge team representing Sheffield - Katie Rendall, Charlotte Atkin, Beth Thomasson, Francesca Marshal, Nicky Herring, Izzi Cocker, Ellie Broadberry and Sophie Waring
This year we also ran the ‘Make Your Mark Tenner Challenge’. Congratulations budding entrepreneurs, Katie Rendall and Ellen Andrews, who earned a massive £60 profit in just one day. The Make Your Mark team challenged dozens of students in Sheffield to make as much profit as possible with a £10 loan from Peter Jones of Dragon’s Den Fame. Katie and Ellen decided to sell friendship bracelets and Scooby Doo key rings to the Junior School and plan to donate £10 to Cancer Research UK.
This year’s Young Enterprise team has been Bloomin Elle. Emma Hillett, Tayla Furniss, Charlotte Hale, Charlotte Hague and Harriet Hill took part in the first stage of the Young Enterprise Sheffield and Humber Competition in February. With their innovative eco-bags they set up a trade stand at Rotherham market and impressed shoppers as well as the judges. They successfully sold over twenty bags and won two prizes for ‘Best Sales Team’ and ‘Most Innovative Product’.
Make Your Mark ‘Tenner Challenge’ winning entrepreneurs Katie Rendall and Ellen Andrews
In May, Blooming Elle with their colourful caricature creation Eco Man enjoyed incredible success at the Young Enterprise South Yorkshire Regional Final held in the newly built Doncaster Rugby Club House Suite at Castle Park.
Eco Man, the comic book hero, was inspired by the company’s desire to make a positive environmental impact. The students hoped that they would be able to make a difference by designing a book that would encourage children of a young age to think and act in an environmentally responsible way. All the illustrations and stories were created by the Young Enterprise team during their enrichment programme in School.
On the night, the judges commented upon how impressed they had been with the innovation, professionalism and enthusiasm that the students had displayed at the different events organised by the Young Enterprise Yorkshire and Humber team.
'Bloomin Elle' with their business advisors who kindly volunteered to help them. On the left is Richard Field, Project Manager at HSBC and next to him is Anderson Moyo, a business management consultant as well as a pastor.
Blooming Elle were honoured to pick up the following awards:
- Teamwork award
- Environmental award
- Best Trade Stand
- Best sales and Marketing
- Best product
- Best presentation
- Best company report
- And overall company of the year
The group go on to represent South Yorkshire at the Yorkshire Regional Final at the Leeds United Football ground where the students will enjoy a formal evening dinner as a celebration of all their achievements.
For information on Young Enterprise in the Sixth Form, please see the Sixth Form section