Entrepreneurship — practise it, understand it, use it.

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Solve a problem, test a prototype and explain an honest business idea.

Parents can add this optional course in Choose subjects & weekly plan. It contributes one session per week in the current course. Save the selection to update My learning and My week; move sessions to fit your family. Existing work is kept when a subject is deselected.

Year 6: four introductory lessons

• Week 1: Find a useful problem
• Week 2: Sketch, test and improve
• Week 3: Costs, revenue and profit
• Week 4: An honest pitch

Read together, draw the situation or use counters and role-play. Explain your decision and compare it with one reasonable alternative.

Year 7: four introductory lessons

• Week 1: Find a useful problem
• Week 2: Sketch, test and improve
• Week 3: Costs, revenue and profit
• Week 4: An honest pitch

Read together, draw the situation or use counters and role-play. State the evidence or calculation behind your answer, and identify one assumption.

Year 8: four introductory lessons

• Week 1: Customer problem or assumption?
• Week 2: Prototype and evidence
• Week 3: Break-even and a realistic model
• Week 4: Pitch with ethics and uncertainty

Read together, draw the situation or use counters and role-play. Compare two possible responses or outcomes and justify your decision using the lesson.

Year 9: four introductory lessons

• Week 1: Customer problem or assumption?
• Week 2: Prototype and evidence
• Week 3: Break-even and a realistic model
• Week 4: Pitch with ethics and uncertainty

Read together, draw the situation or use counters and role-play. Evaluate your decision: identify an assumption, a limitation and what new information could change your view.

More than one route to understanding

Read a clear explanation, open a worked example, break the idea into steps and try practice with feedback. Use a drawing, counters, discussion or a fictional role-play, then save your own response for parent review. Weekly and month-end checks ask learners to apply the idea in a fresh example.

Explore safely with fictional examples

Use imaginary credits, paper prototypes and fictional people. No purchases, investment accounts, real trading or public business launch are needed. The investment course develops understanding of risk and costs; it does not recommend products or promise returns.

Try it with your child

Explore written lessons, worked examples, practice and parent review guides. Choose the course in your child’s weekly plan and start with the first activity.

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