Senior School

Senior School Young Enterprise

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 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’. Here are this year’s press releases –

Live Yorkshire!
Our current students are eagerly preparing their presentations in an attempt to win the challenge. The challenge is open to all students in Yorkshire studying GCSE business studies. The challenge includes organizing a conference for the Coca-Cola Company which various important Coca Cola employees from all over the world will be attending. This challenge is extremely important as it is promoting Yorkshire and will prove to other counties and regions in the UK that Yorkshire truly is unique.

In each Business Studies class, students have been organized into teams which will then create their own company. A group of 14-15 year olds; Emma Parkin, Faith Parkin, Hollie Watson, Ellen Andrews, Alice Whitworth and Lizzie Pinder have created a company called ‘Live Yorkshire’. They are currently working very hard, organising a conference location, activities for the important figures to take part in during the day and the evening, a hotel for those attending to stay at and superb food for them to enjoy.

They are trying their best to ensure that ‘Live Yorkshire’ blows the panel of judges away and we need your support to win, by helping us to advertise Live Yorkshire. Our team, as a public relations company, is to increase the awareness of the conference, and make Yorkshire a business and tourist location. We are also going to be staging a publicity stunt which will be a surprise on the day.

So remember: ‘Live Yorkshire’!

Live It Your Way, Live It The Yorkshire Way!

‘The Society’
As time draws nearer to the 2012 Olympics, we need to start thinking about getting the rest of Britain involved. Bringing the Olympic spirit to Yorkshire will not only publicize the area and show the true excellence of Yorkshire, but it will also bring a lot of tourism to the local attractions in the region.

‘The Society’ is a public relations company whose goal is to raise awareness of the true beauty of Yorkshire and publicise Coca Cola’s sponsorship of the Olympics. Our aim is to bring out the best in our region and to prove to the rest of the country that Yorkshire is a place well worth visiting.

Yorkshire has been stereotyped as a typical farming community, together with horse and greyhound racing, Yorkshire puddings and steel. However, Yorkshire has a lot more to give and is yet to be discovered. This is where we come in.

In October, 60-100 international company employees working for Coca Cola, from around the world will fly in to a nearby Yorkshire airport on the Friday evening and then travel to one of the region’s finest hotels, Rudding Park. When they arrive, they will be welcomed with a formal meal and later on in the evening, receive a speech from a leading PR company director. On the Saturday, the delegates will spend the afternoon in Sheffield City Centre, where they will travel to the different business opportunities around the area. They will then enjoy a night at the greyhound races where they will watch the greyhounds and eat Pie and Peas in a private box. On the Sunday morning, they will awaken to a full Yorkshire breakfast, have time to relax and pack and then go clay pigeon shooting in the afternoon. We will supply tweed coats and flat caps to really emphasise this traditional country pursuit. In the late evening, they will travel back to the airport and return to their homes and hopefully spread the word about Yorkshire.

By doing this, we hope to show that Yorkshire is a picturesque and unique place to visit and that this challenge will bring more tourism to the area.

Throughout the weekend and in this press release, we are not just advertising Yorkshire but also helping to promote the Coca Cola business challenge and their sponsorship of the Olympics. This project will hopefully start to encourage business throughout schools and get the younger generation more involved in sport.

‘The Society’ – Georgia Azzi, Katie Midgley, Lauren Bingham, Danielle Freeman, Hannah Turner, Kiran Mehboob and Jasmine James.

For information on Young Enterprise in the Sixth Form, please see the Sixth Form section