Business Studies Students Pitch for Investors

Year 9 Business Studies students have spent the last half term preparing their pitches to ‘investors’, in the form of Year 12 A Level students and various teachers. Students were tasked with producing a poster, a formal Business Plan, and other promotional materials, for a unique new product or service of their choosing, with the aim of gaining ‘investments’ from those who  attended the Trade Fayre. 

The Sixth Form Canteen became a hub of entrepreneurship and was abuzz with the sound of Year 9 students impressing investors with their ‘gap in the market’ ideas and their forecasts of   life-changing profits for their investors. Some of the new ideas that Year 9 hoped would impress their investors included, but were in no way limited to: healthy energy drinks, a ready-meal   breakfast, a drone for window washing and a new football team for the town of Wakefield!

All groups were able to produce very professional and watertight Business Plans that even the more conservative investors struggled to find potential flaws with, and the visual aids made for colourful, eye-catching adverts for their new businesses.  However, Head of  Social Sciences, Mrs Hall, remarked that it was the students themselves and their salesmanship that truly sold some of the ideas so well; a sentiment that all in attendance were able to agree on.

Congratulations to all Year 9 students for all their hard work on these pitches, particularly those who won the most investment on the day. It was fantastic to see the students apply the content they had learnt from their GCSE course in such a practical and exciting way.

Mr Rice, Philosophy, Religion and Ethics