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THE ERASMUS PROJECT

WHAT IS THE ERASMUS PROJECT?

Entrepreneurship: Enables young people from every community and background to experience, understand and engage with the challenging, fun and exciting world of enterprise. Adopting the mind-set of an entrepreneur at an early age can have a positive impact on children because it encourages them to follow their passions and interests. The definition of entrepreneurship is the capacity to develop organise and manage a business venture along with any of its risks in order to make a profit. Research shows that young people who are taught about entrepreneurship show a positive change in attitude and strong success orientation.

To begin a venture, we need to create a project and develop a new idea, service or product by finding an opportunity, understanding resources, plan the venture and implement the plan.

work out who their product is for (customers) design a logo create a business name decide on the cost and make a budget plan create products decide what customers will need to know create an advertisement produce a sales/promotional/publicity activity sell the idea through the internet, a stand or a stall check the budget and work out the profit (minus costs) Celebrate!

WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO?

It all starts with attitude.  Success comes with the right mindset. It's not just

dependent on the quality of business ideas. Have you heard of the expression:

“Success is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.”

Not everyone is successful on the first attempt in business. But with hard work and the determination never to give up, we will have a much better chance of success. 

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO ACHIEVE THIS?

What are the characteristics of an entrepreneur?

A successful entrepreneur is curious, innovative, flexible, and focused. The entrepreneur:

looks for opportunitiesis not afraid to be differentnotices trends and asks “why”?is resourceful and open to new ideasis committed to a plan

HOW TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR

Today we will brainstorm some ideas together as a class

First we must list and work out who our product is for, who will we be selling our products to?

Now we must design a logoWhat is our theme? Class name? colours? Symbols?

Then we can create our business nameCan we link it to our logo? Use alliteration, a play on words or a pun?

LETS GET STARTED….

CAN I RATE MY ENTREPRENEURSHIP SKILLS?

WHAT WILL WE SELL?

Now we need to brainstorm things to make and sell on our stall We need to remember that to make a profit we must take into

account the cost of what we are making

Lets think about the time of year we will hold our entrepreneur evening

Thursday 24th March – end of Spring Term Near Easter Spring time

So lets have that as our theme, keep things bright and cheery with flowers, colours, images like bunnies or chicks for example

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SOME IDEAS OF THINGS TO MAKE….