IDIOM Workshops

On Thursday the 7th of February, three High School Students came in to work with classes. Their names were Megan, Morven and Lyle. They came in to talk to us about their new business called IDIOM. These three students wrote and produced a book, cards and are going on to make gift cards. Their business focuses around Bonnie the Beltie. Bonnie the Beltie is a cow from Scotland. We were all taught about how to make a business, branding, budgeting and marketing.

We did a little activity as well and it was incredibly fun but also really hard. Our task was:

We got £60 to budget and spend
We had to pay £10 for one sheet of paper
We had to pay £10 for one glue stick
We had to pay £10 for one pair of scissors
Luckily the pens were free
We had to come up with a product
Name our product
Name our business
Decide how much our product was going to cost
Decide how much we were going to sell the product for
You had to have a product that had something to do with Bonnie the Beltie
Some groups did bracelets, pillows, phone cases, shoes etc.
You then had to perform a two minute presentation to the class to explain/tell all of the above featuring your product

Primary 6/7 and Primary 7 thought this was a great workshop and the High School pupils delivered this well. They learnt a lot about starting up a new business and creating a new product.

Primary 4’s had a slightly different activity. They had to make a Storyboard about Bonnie the Beltie. They had to go into groups of four or five. They had to choose an adventure for Bonnie. The Primary 4’s found their activity very fun! Once they had finished they got to read them out to the class. Some of the students from P4 said they used a lot of communication skills and they really enjoyed colouring the storyboard in. The pupils said that the High School students were very nice, kind and caring. The pupils would absolutely love to take part in something like this again!