Creative Learning Events

Creative Learning Events are enterprise education experts who deliver enterprise challenge days and business awareness days in both primary and secondary schools.  All our enterprise events are delivered to schools across Yorkshire, Humberside, North East and North West.  

If you are looking for an exciting and inspiring Enterprise Challenge Day for your students, please get in touch.  We also offer work related learning and employability skills days.

Teachers often lack the time, and sometimes the expertise, to plan and organise their own enterprise challenge days.  We can help you and save your valuable time and help you meet your goals.  Our affordable enterprise events are organised and run by experienced entrepreneurs who will run a day for you in school that will motivate and engage all your students. We will design, deliver and evaluate an event for you with the minimum impact on your time and help you meet and exceed Ofsted guidelines.

Our events are original, topical and have been tried and tested in many schools. Students work in small teams on practical exercises, designed to get everyone involved. Each young person will have a chance to showcase their individual talents whilst working towards team goals. The students will feel excited, inspired and challenged as they compete for team prizes. Each exercise reflects what happens in the real business world.

The E Factor Enterprise Challenge Day

This is our most popular event with both students and teachers. An interactive, fun, practical enterprise challenge based in the Music Industry.  The E Factor Programme enthuses and motivates students whilst developing the key skills required in the business world. The programme follows the key functions that are crucial in any business: Planning, Recruitment, Marketing, Sales Presentations, Budgeting, Production and Hard work = Profits! This day is fast paced and competitive just like the real business world.

Students, working in small teams, plan and recruit a new band which they then have to market and secure investment for from the Judges. They will compete with other teams to see who can give the best sales presentation using all their skills and talents.

Student Learning Outcomes

• Increased enterprise understanding and capability
• Raised awareness of different departments and functions within a business
• Each students will have developed enterprise skills of negotiating, decision making, planning, organising, communication, teamwork and meeting deadlines
• Individual skills identified through participative exercises based on the key enterprise elements of planning, recruitment, marketing, sales, production & profit making
• Each team will have prepared and delivered a presentation to an audience to try and win financial investment
• Enhanced financial understanding as teams budget, manage a business loan, buy resources, pay wages, produce accounts and make their business profitable
• Students may work in teams with a local business representative who guide and advise students

An Overview of The E Factor Enterprise Challenge

Exercise 1 - Planning. You have identified a gap in the market for a new band. You must produce a business plan.

Exercise 2 - Recruitment. You must act as a business and put together key criteria for recruiting the band. You will then audition the 20 finalists and select your band.

Exercise 3 - Marketing. You must produce the marketing materials for your band to ensure they get maximum publicity and you also need a range of promotional items to sell at the first concert and make a bit of cash.

Exercise 4 - Sales Promotion. Two big investors are in town (Simon Scowell and Gooey Walsh). You will have a few minutes of their time to present your ideas and convince them to invest in your band. Use all you team to impress the judges that your band will succeed in a competitive market!

Exercise 5 - Profits. A major problem occurs and you need to save your business from bankruptcy. Can you make enough money to ensure the concert goes ahead?  At the end of the day students reflect on and evaluate what they have learnt and achieved.

We will produce an Evaluation Report for you which you can use for any inspection.

"A professional, well-organised Enterprise activity day that inspired the pupils to compete, take responsibility, take risks, practice their communication and team work skills and work together with adults. Pupils were engaged throughout the challenges; they were given a chance to shine and we unearthed some star pupil performances. The two activity days were tailored to meet the needs of our pupils and met all our Enterprise requirements. Thank you very much!"

Brad Allan, Head of Business and Enterprise Co-ordinator
David Young Community Academy, Leeds

Employer Engagement

There is an opportunity to invite local business people to act as Team Advisers and take part in The E Factor Enterprise Challenge. They can share their experiences of the world of work, help the students with the exercises and answer any questions about business that arise. This is a key link that schools can build on. We can contact businesses on your behalf thus saving you a great deal of time and money.

Please read our School Feedback page and see what other teachers and students think about us. Then have a quick look at The Gallery which shows some pictures of the days in action in a variety of schools. A typical enterprise challenge event has been filmed so click on the "See An Event In Action" and watch clips from an enterprise day when you have 5 minutes to spare.

Enterprise Education experts, Creative Learning Events of Leeds work with Education to deliver high quality Activity Days for Primary Schools, Secondary Schools and Colleges along with Employability Skills related Learning Events across Leeds, Yorkshire & Humberside, North East and North West.

Creative Learning Events recognise that it is essential to equip young people with the key skills and confidence that they will require for their future working lives. We enable young people to think about their future careers, help them become more enterprising and empower them to become effective members of the country's future workforce.

Our business aims are to:

• Ready young people for the world of work, business and enterprise
• Influence the development of key employability skills in young people
• Provide practical skills training for students between the ages of 14 and 19
• Provide high quality enterprise education for primary schools
• Provide a platform for employers to engage with young people
• Promote interaction between the education system and the world of work in general
• Work in partnership with Education Business Partnerships and other similar organisations to raise the standard of work related learning in schools and colleges
• Work with Secondary, Primary and S.E.N. schools and young people at all levels
• Support the Governments "Every Child Matters" strategy

To find out more please call Julie O'Brien on 0113 3909814 and she will be happy to discuss any queries with you.

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Please visit our web site and look at our School Feedback page to see the testimonials given by other teachers and students. Take a look at the Student Picture Gallery and see some students in action (and having a ball).

We can also provide contact details of several teachers who know us well and who would be happy to speak to you about the events we have delivered in their schools.

Please call Julie O'Brien or
e-mail julie@c-l-e.co.uk to discuss how we can help you.

For Enterprise Education, Creative Learning Events in Leeds, work with schools delivering Enterprise Challenge Days and Activity Days. With the E-Factor Programme and Every Child Matters CLE in Leeds provide Employability Skills for School & Colleges

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