Enterprise

At Windsor, students are exposed to enterprising experiences with the aim to develop their employability skills, learn about the world of work and create and manage their own successful business ideas in readiness for their prosperous futures and to achieve their personal potential.

Character

‘Enterprise means more than just the ability to become an entrepreneur. It is that quality that gives an individual a positive outlook, an ability to see the glass as half full rather than half empty, and is a valuable attribute for the whole of life.’  (Lord Young, 2014)

At Windsor our ASPIRE ethos of building character education within the curriculum is at the centre of our enterprising nature as a school, inextricably linking entrepreneurial and employability skills within lessons taught everyday, extending to the recognition of positive actions shown by students within our community.

Financial Capability

At Windsor, our purposeful ‘Character Development Days’ are specifically designed to help develop the personal potential of our students whilst delivering the required PSHE curriculum. Financial capability is an enterprising skill we believe is vitally important for our students, enabling them to prepare for adulthood and understand how to manage their future work-life goals and realities. During Character Development Days students receive financial capability lessons with content including spending habits, budgeting,  borrowing and risk and reward are featured and based on the ‘Your Money Matters’ textbook funded by Martin Lewis and ‘Young Money’.

Enterprise Club

Each year, students in Year 7 and 10 develop their creativity and entrepreneurial flair in ‘Enterprise Club’. Students plan and develop their own business ventures and gain an understanding of the real business world while developing their ASPIRE character, life skills and raising money for a chosen charity.

In the Autumn term students take part in the  ‘Christmas Tenner Challenge’ whereby they are required to build festive business ideas on a budget. Groups research products for the Christmas market, looking into the best and most sustainable products to sell. They spend time together planning and designing Christmas themed products to sell to staff, students and parents in the school and wider community.

Using the funds gained in the Autumn term, students then go on to create a more long term product for the rest of the academic year, using market research to find a gap in the market! As a recurring theme, we encourage students to think of the environment and on how to solve problems within their enterprising ideas. Students have been successful offering personalised and reusable products. Over the years our students have entered multiple enterprising competitions including Tycoons in School and Young Enterprise.