Entrepreneur Quiz

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Year 8 Partnership Evening 2008
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Welcome

• Format for the evening
• National Curriculum 2008
• Enterprise education
• French and German
• Student experiences
• Year 8 Challenge

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National Curriculum 2008

• Greater flexibility and coherence
• New focus on aims and skills
• Greater personalisation through assessment and
  qualifications
• Find out lots more at
• http//curriculum.qca.org.uk/

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Enterprise Education

• Mr. S. Walsh

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The Course

• 1 hour on the two week timetable in Year 8
• However enterprise is taught discreetly in all
  subjects
• Similar to Learning to Learn in Year 7
• Where skills learnt aid learning in all other
  subjects.

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Content

• Time management
• Team Work
• Communication
• Problem solving
• Planning
• Creativity
• Decision Making
• Risk and Reward

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Enterprise skills quiz
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Before you begin, get a pen and paper ready to
record your answers
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• Question 1
• If you had 100, what would be the first thing
  you do?
• Go out on a shopping spree and blow it all in
  your favourite shop
• Treat all your friends to a slap up meal
• Put half of it in the bank and spend the rest on
  yourself
• Put it all in the bank

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• Question 2
• When in lessons, how do you learn best?
• Listening to the teacher and other pupils in
  class
• Reading text books and help sheets
• Doing an activity with a hand on approach
• A combination of all three

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• Question 3
• When put in a team, what role do you usually
  take?
• Sit back and not contributetheres other people
  to do the work
• Input some ideas, but without much enthusiasm
• Take control and start delegating jobs to the
  rest of the group
• Take part, but you prefer to have people telling
  you what to do

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• Question 4
• What are your favourite school subjects?
• Maths and Science - you enjoy working out
  solutions and finding out interesting facts
• Art, Music and Design Technology - you enjoy
  being creative and expressive
• History and English - you enjoy looking into a
  lot of in depth description
• P.E - you enjoy being fit, healthy and active

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• Question 5
• What qualities do you look for when making
  friends?
• Friendly and approachable
• Calm and quiet
• The life and soul of the party
• Trusting, reliable and supportive

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• Question 6
• When making an important decision, do you?
• Act impulsively on your own instinct
• Consult with friends and family
• Do research on different options
• Pass on the decision to someone elseits too
  hard to decide!

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• Question 7
• If our school was on fire, what would you do?
• Panic!
• Jump out of the window
• Leave the classroom in an orderly fashion
• Run screaming from the classroom

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• Question 8
• If you had to employ someone to work for you,
  which person would you choose from these 4 people
  listed below?
• Fred Smith - hes not always punctual, but works
  hard. Is a team leader
• Joe Bloggs - he has lots of new ideas but is a
  poor planner and decision maker
• Megan Jones - she is good at making decisions and
  can work as part of a team, but cannot work under
  pressure
• Emma Taylor - she isnt bothered about her work
  appearance but is a risk taker and a good people
  person

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• Question 9
• What do you spend most of your free time at home
  doing?
• Watching TV and listening to music
• Doing homework and revising for future tests
• Going out and partying with your friends even on
  a school night!
• Doing lots of sport and other activities

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• Question 10
• What do you think enterprise is?
• Being innovative and working hard
• Having lots of good skills
• Something to do with star trek
• Not being afraid to take risks and speak your mind

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Your Scores

• Q1
• a. 0
• b. 5
• c. 10
• d. 15
• Q2
• a. 5
• b. 0
• c. 10
• d. 15

Q3 a. 0 b. 5 c. 10 d. 15 Q4 a. 5 b. 15 c. 10 d. 0
Q5 a. 10 b. 0 c. 5 d. 15 Q6 a. 15 b. 10 c. 5 d. 0
Q7 a. 5 b. 0 c. 15 d. 10 Q8 a. 15 b. 0 c. 5 d. 10
Q9 a. 10 b. 15 c. 0 d. 5 Q10 a. 10 b. 10 c. 0 d.
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What your score means!
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0-50 points

• You have poor planning, decision making, risk
  bearing and budgeting skills
• You must try to improve!
• ????????????

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51-100 points

• Halfway to being great at having the skills
  employers are looking for. You are enthusiastic
  and innovative, but there is still room for
  improvement!
• ????????????

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101-150 points

• You have very well developed enterprise skills
  You will do really well at your chosen career.
  Keep it up!
• ????????????

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Mrs F. Wearing

• Chamber of Commerce

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Miss C. Bagley

• Curriculum Leader Modern Foreign Languages

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• Language Learning
• is like Marmite!

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Whodve thought
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Whodve thought
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Show girl
Teacher
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Mrs C. Underwood

• Outdoor Education Experience

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Year 8 Experiences

• A flavour of life in Year 8

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The Year 8 Challenge

• Mr B. Adams (Progress LeaderYear 8)

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Progress Leader

• To stay with the current Year 8 through to Year
  11.
• Celebrate achievement.
• To raise attainment.
• To devise strategies to address underachievement.
  

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The Year 8 Dip!

• Research has shown that pupils in Year 8 tend to
  lack motivation.
• Year 6 pupils have SATs.
• Year 7 is exciting, everything is new.
• Year 9 (until now) has had SATs
• At the end of Year 9 pupils begin to make option
  choices
• Year 8 lacks these focal points.

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The Solution?
A Year 8 competition. Girls vs
Boys

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Girls
Boys
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99
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Score
BOYS
GIRLS
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168
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Score
BOYS
GIRLS
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Thank You