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Broughton Business & Enterprise College ENTERPRISE CONFERENCE 1 ST MARCH 2007 Humanities…the perfect partner! Lindsey Apps

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Broughton Business & Enterprise College ENTERPRISE CONFERENCE 1ST MARCH 2007

Humanities…the perfect partner!

Lindsey Apps

What elements make good enterprise education?

Financial literacy

Engaging with entrepreneurs

Venture - enterprise simulation or actual venture

Retail Therapy

• Also known as Unit 9 Shopping – past, present and future.

…collect, record and evaluate data about shopping changes

• Using the RPI to promote financial literacy www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase

A simple way to understand the nature of the index is to think of it as a very large shopping basket made up of all the different kinds of goods and services bought by a typical household in the course of a year

Additions and removals offer good insight into inflation, standards

of living, cultural trends and significant events.

1947

January - One of the most severe winters on record in the UK

November - The Princess Elizabeth, daughter of King George VI marries the Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey, London.

November - New Zealand becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.

June 6 - David Blunkett

July 17 - Camilla Parker Bowles

1947

• ACTIVITY

What was in the basket for this year?

1974

February - Harold Wilson becomes Prime Minister again, despite his Labour Party having received fewer votes than the Conservative Party

March - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.

April - ABBA start their road to fame, after winning The Eurovision Song Contest.

June - The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time, to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Ohio

August - Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his resignation

September - Ceefax is started by the BBC - one of the first public service information systems.

January Kate Moss & Ian Huntley

February Robbie Williams

April Victoria Beckham

1974

• What went into the basket?

mortgage

1987

February - Church of England's General Synod voted to allow ordination of women.

January Terry Waite is kidnapped in Beirut

March - sinking of M/S Herald of Free Enterprise in Zeebrugge led to the death of 193 passengers

June - election: Margaret Thatcher is elected as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for the third time

October - Black Monday Wall Street crash leads to £50billion being wiped of the value of shares on the London stock exchange

December - Channel Tunnel construction is initiated

1987

• What went out of the basket?

2006

• What went out of the basket?

2006

• What went into the basket?

After school fees

Internet shopping

• Shopping can be dangerous!

The future- how will the internet affect shopping patterns?

• What are the likely effects of internet shopping on local shops, city centre and out of town shopping?

This could be a problem..

Entrepreneur Engagement

• Invite someone who has started up their own business in a premises to talk to the pupils.

• Use Shell live-wire video clips

• Invite regeneration staff from the council to talk about business grants

What premises are available to buy?

Is it a business that will/could be affected by internet shopping? If so is it still viable? Is this why it’s for sale?

Is the premises in a regeneration area? If so could I get a grant?

Shopping…. the future?

• Your task is to plan a new shop or shopping area, that will be able to compete and/or compliment internet shopping.

Ventures - a simulation

Mail order has a downside!

• What’s in the box?

Other Geography units

Unit 19 Tourism – good or bad?Financial literacy – use holiday brochures with different

budgets and specifications for each group to find a suitable

holiday. Can they get a better price on-line?

Engaging with entrepreneurs – local travel agent to talk about finding best deals, shop v internet sales etc.

Venture - social enterprise simulation, pupils make either radio advert or short filmed TV advert/news report, encouraging ECO tourism. Present to parents with before and after comments to see if viewpoints have been changed.