Private School News

Wycliffe meets The Apprentice

Sir Alan Sugar met his match when he took on Wycliffe’s 14- and 15-year-old entrepreneurs in a special The Apprentice Enterprise Day at the school.

In the event, pupils had to take up Sir Alan’s challenge to design, develop and market a new brand of breakfast cereal.

The day for Year 9 pupils was organised by seven trainee Business teachers from local universities.

Over the course of the morning pupils were tasked with using and developing enterprise skills such as: team work, creativity, problem solving, using initiative, taking risks and handling money. They were asked to devise a logo, slogan, packaging, TV/Radio advert and poster for their new product and then present their ideas as if to ‘Sir Alan Sugar’.

Organiser, Lianne Brown said, “The ideas and work produced by the pupils at Wycliffe was fantastic and truly enterprising. The trainee teachers had a wonderful morning and had the difficult task of judging an overall winner; all of the work produced was of such a high-standard.”

In the end the prize was taken by a team who dressed one of their number up as a large pink rabbit to get their message across.

All pupils thoroughly enjoyed the event and many are now keen to take up Business Studies GCSE! Sir Alan, watch out!