Year 10 Enterprise Business

What will I learn?
This is a very interactive, student directed course where the teacher acts as facilitator and mentor and the students take responsibility for their own business. They learn how to add value to resources and understand that businesses face risks that must be managed to gain rewards.
Students will discover what it means to be enterprising and how to run a small venture
They will:
- Find the common skills and qualities that enterprising individuals have and learn how they can develop those skills.
- Learn how to add value to resources
- Understand that businesses face risks that must be managed to gain rewards.
- Have the exciting opportunity to use their own student business to learn the tools for success in:
 business planning,
 production
 marketing.

Skills:
This course develops a wide range of well valued qualities and competencies such as:
- Creative thinking
- Using initiative
- Market research skills
- Problem solving skills
- Managing risk
- Seeing and assessing opportunities
- Holding effective meetings
- Banking, basic cash book management
- Practical production skills
- Calculating costs and prices
- Communicating with other people visually, orally, and in writing
- Planning use of time
- Managing information
- Negotiation
- Showing resilience
- Desktop publishing

Suits Students who:
- Are self motivated
- Enjoy responsibility and decision-making
- Have ideas and a sense of creativity
- Want to develop business ownership skills
- Want to make sense of their learning
- Are prepared to work cooperatively with others
- Love to challenge themselves
- Like to learn through discovery and experience
- Enjoy practical work