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Beaconhill Community Primary School chosen to receive WHSmith vouchers

Posted by Beaconhill Primary School on Jul 18, 11 09:15 AM in Bloggers

Staff at WHSmith's Gosforth store have nominated Beaconhill Community Primary School as one of the lucky beneficiaries of the 2011 WHSmith Trust Schools Giveaway. As part of the giveaway, WHSmith stores will be donating vouchers worth £25, 000 to over 160 school around the country.

Local WHSmith store manager Paula Fisher said:

"We're really excited to have the opportunity to support Beaconhill Community Primary School and help them to buy new facilities for the beginning of the new school year. It's also a great way for the staff at WHSmith to get involved with their local community and to build on our work to support imrovements in Literacy and education."

Teaching staff at Beaconhill Primary School will be able to put vouchers towards new books and stationary products in preparation for the new term in September.

Headteacher, Mrs Forbes said:

"We are delighted to receive this award. The vouchers will certainly be put to good use supporting our new Literacy initiatives in school. We would like to thank WHSmith very much indeed".

Beaconhill pupils are an enterprising success!

Posted by Beaconhill Primary School on Jul 4, 11 03:00 PM in Schools

Pupils at Beaconhill Primary School in Cramlington have been coming up with some inventive ways of making some money. Each class from Nursery through to Year 6 was given a £50 loan from headteacher Mrs Forbes. The classes then thought about a business idea which they could devlop in order to make as much profit as possible from their initial £50. Mrs Forbes demanded her £50 back by the end of the month along with 10% interest.

The children had some wonderful ideas for their class enterprise. Reception and Nursery held a pirate themed Summer fayre. Year 1 sold smoothies. Year 2 ran an afternoon tuck shop. Year 3 made and sold friendship bracelets and greetings cards. Year 4 set up a nail salon and made coasters and magnets to sell. Year 5 ran discos for all classes. Year 6 set up stocks on the school field and children paid to splat teachers and fellow pupils.

All in all this event was a great success with children learning an awful lot about profit and loss, as well as having lots of fun and making some money! All classes made a profit and are currenlty deciding what to spend their money on! The Enterprise of the Year trophy went to Reception and Nursery who made over £300 profit from their initial £50! We are already looking forward to next year's enterprise week.