The Priory School (B&E College), Shrewsbury

Date of Visit: 7th March 2006

The day was organised by Wendy Blower, Curriculum Co-ordinator for Business & Enterprise. The purpose of the day was to go through the case study ‘Centre Parks’.

Wendy wrote: “Thanks for last week, it was great and the feedback from the kids was good.”

For the day Oxford Conferences provided a 90-page case study specifically written for the school. Please contact us if you would like to receive a copy of this.

The detailed feedback from the school was:

• 100% of students found the activity interesting

They have learnt:

• Marketing 32%
• IAS 27%
• SLEPT 23%
• Ratios 14%
• Everything 9%
• Busines in general 14%
• Finance 18%
• All about center parcs 14%
• Business environment 5%
• Product life cycle 5%
• Business theories 5%
• Answering business questions directly 5%
• Definitions 5%
• How different people contribute to a business 9%
• Use of internet 5%
• Different roles in business 5%

Improvements:

• More one on one 5%
• Nothing 45%
• Another tpoic – different business 14%
• Play more games 5%
• Discuss in more detail 5%
• Learn more about general business terms 9%
• More individual work 9%
• Do more group work and arguments 9%
• Larger groups 5%

Overall, students thought that the activity was:

• Very Good 68%
• Good 23%
• Average 9%

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