Emanuel School’s Year 9 and 10 students can choose to study an elective subject called ‘Business Creators’. Students are taught to develop their entrepreneurial skills by completing class and project work aimed at assessing their ability to create, innovate, problem solve, persuade and negotiate.

In 2019 we would like to set up a project that would involve our students working with local businesses. The students would be divided in groups of two or three and assigned to a business. Each group would assist the business with an issue or challenge they face. This would be of the owner’s choosing. For example, it could involve creating a new logo for a Veterinary Surgeon, designing business cards or letterbox flyers for a mechanic or even designing a new menu for a café. This would not involve changing the menu items, but rather sourcing information and ideas to create an improved physical menu that would be on each table.

Ideally, the business owner or manager would be able to talk to our students at school to outline the nature of the change or innovation they are hoping to achieve.

There would be no obligation for each business to adopt what is created; although our Business Creators students would be aiming to impress their business partners with their entrepreneurial skills and would be happy if their suggestions were implemented.

Please email me if you have a business that would be interested in participating in this project in Term 2, 2019.

David Bartlett

Head of HSIE

dbartlett@emamuelschool.nsw.edu.au