07-05-2025
- Business
- Irish Independent
Co Wicklow students learn how to get a head for world of business
Bray People
The students of St Peter's NS, Bray, took part in a real-life, immersive entrepreneurship skills programme for primary school children, called the Junior Entrepreneur Programme recently – a bit like Dragons' Den but without the dragons.
The programme aims to nurture confidence, resilience, creativity, problem-solving and teamwork and engages pupils of all abilities.
The project was for the fifth class students, who worked in four teams and had to envisage and develop a business idea for scratch.
The winning team was Bandana Boutique, a pet and toy bandana business. And once the winning idea was chosen, the whole class got involved to work together to make the business as successful as possible, collaborating on design and production, finance, marketing, sales and communications.
The students made different size bandanas from donated material, which have a reflective feature for safety on the front and can be easily slid on to dog/cat collars.
They will donate 10pc of the proceeds to a dog charity.
They also made posters, conducted market research, and advertised and promoted their product around the school.
The big showcase days were on Thursday and Friday, May 1 and 2, and there was a terrific buzz in the school when family and friends came along to their pop-up shop, learn more about their JEP journey and of course, buy some bandanas.
