Secondary activities
Engage and motivate your students with practical tasks that will test their business acumen and teamwork abilities.
For other fundraising ideas for secondary school students, check out our guide.
You can use Barnardo’s advertising campaigns in your lessons – refer to our dedicated section for details and images from previous years
Team Challenge
Barnardo’s challenges secondary school pupils to get a team together to raise funds for our vital work. The aim is to use the talents of everyone in the team to put on a fundraising event and see how much money you can raise!
Team members will gain valuable skills as they make a real difference to the lives of disadvantaged children across the UK.
The challenge develops:
- teamwork skills
- budgeting ability
- organisational skills.
Team Challenge also helps meet National Curriculum objectives in Citizenship and allows schools to give something back to the local community.
Barnardo’s also provides a great range of materials to ensure your Team Challenge is a huge success. These include leaflets, guides on organising virtual challenges, adaptable posters, donation forms and certificates to reward everyone that takes part.
Business Incentive Scheme
Looking for the next Sir Alan Sugar or Sir Richard Branson among your students? Want to put their business studies theories into practice, all while fundraising and transforming children’s lives?
Barnardo's have developed a real life business scheme to help your students find out whether they have got what it takes.
The Business Incentive Scheme will provide students with a unique opportunity to experience running a business enterprise and will help other young people at the same time. It will help them put their learning into practice and achieve key skills.
Barnardo's provides £120 start-up capital for each school accepted into the scheme. It is then up to each team or 'company' to put their business idea into practice with the objective of making £500 net profit. At the end of the scheme the start up capital is returned to Barnardo's and if the profits exceed £500, 25% of the net profit will be returned to your department and 75% goes to help Barnardo's work with children.
One school that has put it to good use is Hinchley Wood Sixth Form in Surrey. They decided that there’s no business like show business. The team swiftly raised £2,650 for Barnardo's vital work, and their Christmas pantomime has become part of the school calendar.
So, here is your chance to let your students gain some practical experience of real life business and raise some money for children across the UK at the same time.
Teaching resources for Year 7
Develop your year 7 pupils’ analytical and communication skills with our five interactive and engaging lesson plans.
Using Barnardo’s marketing resources, pupils will learn how to read and analyse communication materials and will put these skills into practice by developing their own advertising poster. Pupils will also get a chance of having their best ideas published on this website by taking part in our poster competition!
Our Year 7 free resources are complete with exciting support material, homework ideas and are suitable for English, Citizenship and Media Studies fulfilling National Curriculum objectives.