An enterprise curriculum

Art & Design offers pupils a real chance to explore creativity, enterprise and entrepreneurialism.  It is important that pupils are helped to understand that design is everywhere... someone has come up with the idea, someone has made everything that they see around them. 

Putting pupils at the middle of the design and make process allows them to use their imagination to create something totally unique.  It also helps enable ideas to flower and the seeds of future opportunities to be planted. 

Design shops can be a great source of inspiration.

People will always need cushions (!)

Spot The Difference...
Cushions created by Year 5 and Year 6 pupils.

What might be cushions one year might be bags another and might be soft toys yet another.  The school is an ideal place to mobilise the community... to create a marketplace to sell the goods.  Those goods created by children could be just one stall... or several stalls... amongst a whole host of stalls selling different things, perhaps as part of a Makers Market.

Soft toys

Bags

and enterprise can be ethical, too...

Recycling
http://bigbooklittlebookcardboardbox.co.uk/index.htm

A recycling and enterprise curriculum.
There is a world of possibilities out there for us...