You’re Hired

Year Six Pupils at St John’s College embrace Enterprise Week with an Apprentice Style Challenge

Year Six pupils were challenged to make a new drink, market it, prepare an advertisement for television and deliver a professional pitch in an Apprentice-style challenge. The pupils had just a week to work in small teams, and the budding entrepreneurs attacked the task with great enthusiasm. A first round of pitches included some searching questions from Head of the Lower School Mr Tony Shrubsall and a taste test, and from this the four finalists were selected for the final round. The eventual winners were team SAS – Smart and Successful - for their juice and sparkling water product “Pure” and team members Chinenye Ezeuko, Matthew McGlinchey, Louis McCubbin, Keelan O’Connell and Georgia Palmer-Goddard were all “hired” at the end of the contest. Mr Martin Field is Head of Business Studies at the Upper School and listened to the pitches of the final four. Speaking about the winning team, he said: “Team SAS presented a clear business plan based on good market research and put together a fine advertising campaign aimed at their target market. They kept their cool through the questioning process and showed an impressive grasp of concepts such as profit and loss. They deserved to be hired!” Mr Shrubsall added: “All the pupils worked really hard on this challenge, and we were very impressed with how well the teams worked together and took on the tasks. We think Sir Alan Sugar would have been impressed with all of them.” -Ends- Words: 241

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