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Intellectual Development
Build Your Business Workshop
Students work together to create a business idea, design a product or service, understand money, and present their work to an audience.
Intellectual Development
National Schools Innovation Blueprint
Overview
What students will do
Develop ideas
Identify problems worth solving and create business ideas.
Build products
Design products, branding, pricing and marketing materials.
Present professionally
Pitch their business to judges, teachers or visitors.
Programme Structure
Rotational modules
Sessions rotate through six practical modules, each building towards the final professional outcome.
1
Finding a problem worth solving
2
Designing a product or service
3
Understanding money and pricing
4
Pitching to an audience
Professional Roles
Students work in professional roles
Every student takes on a role within their team, mirroring how professionals collaborate in the real world.
Chief Executive (CEO)
Leads a business by making strategic decisions and setting its direction.
Management Consultant
Helps organisations improve performance by solving business problems.
Angel Investor
Invests in promising business ideas and supports new entrepreneurs.
Skills Framework
CATAPULT skills students build
The CATAPULT Skills Framework™ underpins every session of this programme. Students particularly develop:
Ambition
Leadership
Communication
Problem Solving
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Build Your Business Workshop in action
Choose Your Implementation Pathway
Three ways to deliver this programme
Choose the pathway that best fits your school's time, timetable and level of support.
Use Lite to introduce pupils to the programme, its real-world role and related careers.
Career Exposure
Promotional
Promotional poster / flyer
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A short club pathway. Pupils work through the programme's Standard sessions and module activities.
Programme resources
Staff Pilot Overview
View PDFEvaluation Booklet
View PDFMastery Rubric
View PDFCertificate Template
View TemplateSessions
Modules
Module A worksheet
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A longer timetabled pathway with more time for practical work and the programme's final output.
Programme resources
Staff Pilot Overview
View PDFEvaluation Booklet
View PDFMastery Rubric
View PDFCertificate Template
View TemplateSessions
Modules
Module A worksheet
View PDF
Evaluation
How this programme is evaluated
The National Schools Innovation Blueprint evaluates participation, engagement, development, programme outputs and implementation using the same booklet across every stndard and embedded programmes. They are recorded once using the shared Enrichment Activity evaluation form.
Case Study
See how Ashlawn School delivered this programme
Ashlawn School piloted Build Your Business Workshop with Year 7 students over twelve weeks, testing engagement, confidence and how easy the resources were for staff to deliver.
Read the Case Study
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions
Approximately 2–3 hours before delivery.
Mainly Key Stage 3, although older students can also participate.
Yes. Student leaders can organise resources and support delivery.
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