We’ve had a great Enterprise Week in Year 6. We voted to make Hama Bead creations (which has become a bit of a Year 6 tradition!) and we’re glad we did because they were very popular again!

We started by thinking of  names for our company and then voting for our favourite one. The winner was ‘Hamatastic!’ Well done to Rafael for his winning idea. Then we had great fun, designing company logos and then voting for our favourite one. Well done to Rebecca for her winning design.

Next, it was time to practice using persuasive language to write an advert for our product. We learnt about superlatives, alliteration and rhetorical questions and then wrote ideas for catchy slogans to persuade others to buy our products. We all shared our best slogans in the class advert which was filmed and shown to the other classes in assembly. Click here to see the adverts that all of the classes made: https://www.stvincentsprimary.org.uk/news/enterprise-week-adverts-4/

Our advert must have been very persuasive because we had over fifty orders from the other classes -it was so exciting, watching the number of orders going up live on Google Classroom!  All of  Year 6 also ordered one so we had a busy few days making our products. Many thanks to all of the parents who came in to help us with this. 

We have learnt so much this week about what it’s like to set up and run a business and what it’s like to do paid work!  We also had four parent visitors who taught us more about the world of work by telling us what it’s like to work in IT, as an actor, as a pharmacist and as the owner of a business.  Many thanks to them all for giving up their time to speak to us and answer our questions; we really appreciate it.

 We have  been learning more about democracy through voting for every decision throughout the process and then agreeing to the decision voted for by the majority of the class. We have also been using all of our  learning powers throughout the week.

After we had paid back the £30 that Miss Coleman gave us (which was spent on Hama Beads, boards and pipe cleaners) we ended up with a profit of £57.  We will vote on what to buy with the money that we earned once everyone has had a chance to make suggestions.

Please make your suggestions in the comments, Year 6, and then we can make our orders after half term. 

34 comments on “Enterprise Week in Year 6

  1. You look like you had a lot of fun.

  2. I ordered one from Y6 and I can’t wait to receive it !
    Thanks Y6 for working so hard on this product!

  3. Florence Y3🌈 says:

    Making this Hama bead creation looks so fun!

  4. This was so much fun having all the parents come in and help us make our amazing hammer beads!

  5. Catherine Yr6 says:

    It was so much fun having Enterprise Week!!!

  6. Alexandra Y3 says:

    Your Hamatastic Hama bead creations are fabulous! 👌 👏
    Great product Year 6!

  7. With our £57 I want to buy more cards and wet play games. Also I would like new whiteboards.

  8. with our £57 i want to buy some more (and better)pillows. Also we need some more card decks to play with. lastly i would like a new chess board.

  9. I think that we should spend all our Enterprise Week money on more wet play games.

  10. Sophia B Y6 says:

    I loved making different creations using these hamatastic hama beads! Enterprise week was so fun! I think we should spent the money on new books to read and fun games to play with at wet play.

  11. Enterprise week was fantastic! I thing we should spend our money on wet play games!!

  12. I had a amazing time, I would like to spend some of the money on bracelet making kit.

  13. I really enjoyed Entreprise week. I loved doing hamma beads. I think that with all the money we earnt we should buy some games for wet play and some stationary.

  14. Enterprise week was amazing! It was really fun making the hamabead creation.I think we should spend the money on more wet play games.

  15. I think we should spend the money on bracelet kits.

  16. I think my favourite part about Enterprise Week was the parents coming in to school to help out making the Hama-Beads as we make a lot more in the short timespan but also made everything so much more fun! I would spend a lot of my money to buy Hama-beads if I were to be a customer considering how much effort y6 (us) put in to our products.

  17. Enterprise Week was so much fun. With are £57 I want to get wet play games

  18. MILA YEAR 6 says:

    With the £57 i think we should buy more games but can it be board game and cards. I think we should get more board games.

  19. With our £57 i want to buy cusions for our seats .Abd also more and better cards

  20. I loved enterprise week and I loved learning about business and money i really enjoyed making the hama bead creations.

  21. I really enjoyed enterprise week, with the £57, I think we should buy more board games and decorations for our classroom. I also loved making hamabeads in yr 6!

  22. I would like to buy many good card games for the book corner and many board games.

  23. I would like to buy the soft pillows that we have he floor for our seats.

  24. I enjoyed enterprise week ! It was very fun and with our £57 I would like to get playing cards and I would also want A LOT of and new board games. I also really want new uno cards that are special because I enjoy playing them. For example I play with the Harry Potter uno and it is very fun !

  25. I think that the best part about enterprise week was making hama beads because you get to make a lot of different creations. With the money we made I’d like to buy some more wet play games.

  26. I had an AMAZING time making Hama Beads!!! I loved the colourful designs that we could make and the wide range of patterns.

  27. I found enterprise week super fun and I want to buy some new books and new wet play games with our money.

  28. I loved it and it was so fun.

  29. I really enjoyed Enterprise Week. With the profit we made, I suggest that we could buy a board game for the book corner, such as Monopoly.

  30. I would buy the hammer beads.

  31. I am so happy we made £57! I think that we should buy some more unique, fun wet play games so everyone has the opportunity to play a game!!!

  32. I hope you guys enjoyed enterprise week.😊

  33. I ordered one of them, and it was so cool!

  34. Olivia year5 says:

    I loved the product I got , I ordered a multi-coloured heart !
    I bet you worked really hard on those 🥇
    A-M-A-Z-I-N-G hammer beads year 6 !

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