After a great start the team received this letter in week 2-
Lord Alan Sugar
Amsprop Estates Head Office
Amshold House
Goldings Hill
Loughton
Essex IG10 2RW
UK
Dear pupils,
You appear to have started off tremendously and I am pleased you managed to succeed in your first challenge, well done young apprentices.
This week’s challenge is when the real work starts and you begin to show your more creative sides. This week each team must create a new school badge to represent Redwell Primary. To accomplish this you must undertake various tasks. You will have to do some research about logos, some of you may visit businesses who have years of experience in this industry and others will conduct a survey to find the pupils views and ideas about the school badge. I have even organised a special guest to come in to talk to you about the local area who may have some valuable ideas of the types of things you could include in your badge.
On Friday, after you have completed all of the tasks, you will all come together in your teams to create your badge.
Remember, to be successful you must work as a team
Good luck young apprentices!
Yours sincerely,
Lord Alan Sugar
How they addressed the task –
By the end of the week each team has to have a completed Redwell School badge design.
First the children had to learn all about ‘design’. Groups visited C.R.S., Logo Express and Forth Valley College campus.
At C.R.S. Rory showed the children how designs were created and produced for signs. They recognised lots of familiar signs C.R.S. have made for vans and businesses. Rory took each of our team names and used a computer programme to create a design. The children saw the whole process and left with their own team ‘sign’. It was fascinating and gave them lots of ideas.
At Forth Valley College in Stirling, the children were welcomed and given a tour by Mrs Sneddon. They then spent time with Brian Smith and his visual communication students. They showed the children how to come up with ideas and develop them into a finished design. The children were very impressed with the students’ work. They even developed some of their own ideas about the Redwell Badge with the help of Brian and the students.
At Logo Express the children were able to see how the school badges are made and put onto school uniforms. They learned that a badge with 2 colours of thread takes about 5 minutes to make and a badge with more colours takes longer. The children learned that the badge is drawn out and then printed off on a special machine which send the instructions to the embroidery machine to sew the finished badge.