Enterprise Matters Issue 3

Leaders in enterprise and financial education

Term 1 2012

2011 Award Winners 7 tips for YES teachers FED resources FREE for 2012 New Primary and Secondary Enterprise Programmes www.yetrust.co.nz

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CONTENTS

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Talking about enterprise ¯¯ CEO Terry Shubkin

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Headline News ¯¯ 2012 Programme Registration now open ¯¯ I nnovate with the NEW Young Enterprise Start Up programme ¯¯ B P extend sponsorship of Community Enterprise Project & More

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Inspiring, Educating

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students through Transforming

enterprise experiences

Student Success ¯¯ W ell done to the 2011 Enterprise Programme Winners

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Interview ¯¯ We talk to Kathy Cron

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Programme News ¯¯ PrEP ¯¯ Enterprise Studies ¯¯ Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme ¯¯ Financial Education ¯¯ BusinessNZ Challenge

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Connecting business with schools ¯¯ Xero increase sponsorship. ¯¯ XERO & NZICA make YES accounting easy

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Important Dates

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TALKINGABOUT ENTERPRISE CEO Terry Shubkin

Enterprise Matters is a publication of the Young Enterprise Trust Charities Commission Registration Number: CC21103 Editorial Content Paul Newsom Contact Paul on 04 570 3984 or paul.newsom@yetrust.co.nz Address Young Enterprise Trust, First Floor, 66-70 Bloomfield Terrace, PO Box 31545, Lower Hutt 5010, NZ

www.yetrust.co.nz Art Director Jodi Olsson Publisher Espire Media Po Box 137162, Parnell, Auckland 1151 Enquiries: Phone Alastair on 09 522 7257 or email alastairn@espiremedia.com is a GREEN MAG, ISSN This 1177-875X created and distributed without the use of paper so it's environmentally friendly.

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Cover picture: Bill Qiu and Teresa Wong of +Plus.

Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme Company of the Year.Photo credit: Bradydyer.com

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appy New Year. I hope you have had an enjoyable break over the holiday period and are looking forward to an exciting 2012.

As I look back to the end of last year, I reflect on what a busy and exciting time it was for everyone. Term four is always a mad race to the end of the year but seemed even crazier with the short term. At the Trust, it’s a fun time of year when we get to see how far our students have developed over the year as the entries for the various competitions start pouring in from both primary and secondary schools. The calibre of the entries gives me faith that as a country we are developing creative, energetic and enterprising young people.

Our 30th anniversary celebration at Government House in November was a chance for us to reflect on our three decades of history and all the work that has been done to get us to where we are now. It was also nice to see so many past students attend as YES Alumni.

The YES National Awards gala dinner was once again a highlight of the year. In addition to seeing the top companies from the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme, we also were able to see the winners of the Primary Community Enterprise Programme (for Year 7 and 8 students) and the BP Community Enterprise Programme (for Year 9 and 10 students).

Each of the YES award winners had an inspirational story of determination, team work and success. While all deserve special mention, there was one team which made an impact that truly touched everyone. TriHealthy from Opotiki College told the story

of getting sponsorship to be able to provide their product (a pyramid shaped lunch box to encourage healthy eating) free of charge to new entrants at Decile 1 schools. As Sean Chapman shared his experience of making a real difference to the life of some young students, most of the audience was in tears.

It was a wonderful example showing how relevant enterprise skills are – whether you work for a commercial organisation or a not for profit community organisation.

We spend a lot of time talking about enterprise and entrepreneurship, but what does it actually mean? I recently read an article on www.inc.com which asks the question of the definition of entrepreneurship. This article identifies a definition created 37 years ago by Harvard Business School professor Howard Stevenson. Stevenson says that “Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled.”

This is a great definition and really encompasses what we try to encourage in our students and what we see every day.

So, as our enterprising students start their new year, I ask you to think of this definition as you guide them on their journey. This should be a journey which starts with identifying a problem or opportunity and then figures out how you address that issue. In doing so, let us all remember when we were five years old and had visions and aspirations which were not limited by the challenges or difficulties we knew we would face.

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HeadlineNews 2012 Programme Registration Now Open Registration is now open for all of our Primary and Secondary Enterprise Programmes and Financial Education resources: It should only take you a few minutes to register, and Registration is required to access programmes and resources.

To register, go to http://yetrust. co.nz/onlinelinktoregister.html Once you have registered your contact details, you will receive an email giving

90840 (1.4) (Apply the marketing mix to

require 15- 20 hours of teaching and

a new or existing product) and AS 90842

learning (i.e. a four week cross-curricular

(1.6) (Carry out and review a product-

unit study). BP CEP (Intermediate) is

based business activity within a classroom

fully supported on our website, www.

context with direction).

yetrust.co.nz, with lessons and assessment

By participating in the Young Enterprise Start Up programme students will enter the BP Innovation Competition. This is a national competition to celebrate innovation.

The programme will be available from Term 2. If you are interested in receiving more information, and participating in the trial, then please contact Yolande at

activities that registered teachers can download at no cost. Therefore there is no need for teachers to attend a professional development workshop.

Personal Financial Management resources now available Free online.

Our comprehensive teaching lessons and

yolande.rosario@yetrust.co.nz

learning packages for Personal Financial

to call us on 04 570 0452 or email

BP Extend Sponsorship of Community Enterprise Project

now available FREE to download online

support@yetrust.co.nz

Great news - BP New Zealand

you access to the programme resources. If you have any questions, you are welcome

Innovate with the NEW Young Enterprise Start Up programme Young Enterprise Start Up is a programme that has been designed to be delivered in approximately 20 weeks. It can be adapted to be delivered as part of a full year Level 1 business studies course, or integrated into a cross-curricular course. The content is suitable for use as part of a Year 10 enterprise topic, or in combination with Level 1 business, economics or accounting Achievement Standards (AS).

The teachers’ manual will provide an

is sponsoring an Intermediate category in the Community Enterprise Project for 2012.

BP CEP (Intermediate) is an exciting social enterprise initiative for students at Year levels 7 and 8 that ends with a

for registered teachers. Each package contains a teacher package with: •

A topic schedule

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Student exercises (with solutions)

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Assessment task (with solutions)

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Record of student progress sheet

And a student package containing

national competition with winning teams

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Student exercises without answers

receiving excellence awards and funds to

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Unit standard student

implement a social enterprise project. The project focuses on schools partnering with a charitable or not-for-profit organisation in the community to identify an unmet need or problem. Students form teams (student companies), and through a series of leswsons and practical business

outline of the Young Enterprise Start Up

planning activities, they engage in

programme and guidance to help you

enterprise and appreciate the importance

deliver it to your students. The programme

of social entrepreneurship in their local

is designed to enable you to deliver AS

community. The programme will typically

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Management (PFM) unit standards are

information sheet •

Unit standard result sheet

If you are teaching the PFM standards, Financial Education, Mathematics or the Certificate of Employment skills, you should get your hands on these.

Register online to access and download the resources at www.yetrust.co.nz/ onlinelinktoregister.html

the previous Governor General, Rt Hon Sir Anand Satyanand and Lady Susan Satyanand for their many years of support.

Enterprise in the New Zealand Curriculum

New one term enterprise programme for Primary

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Brand new and available now is a one term module called Enterprise 4 Kids.

This is an explicit social inquiry module of PrEP that integrates enterprise, social inquiry, and financial education within the social sciences learning area. Enterprise 4 Kids is an ideal resource for teachers wanting to run a one term enterprise programme at a class room level, and for those PrEP schools that want to strengthen the social science component of their PrEP Programme.

The resource includes four units, with lessons that are designed to develop students’ conceptual understanding of the economic world.

To view some components of this resource visit http://www.mydrive.ch, and enter the username ‘resources@yetrust. co.nz’ with the password ‘tryme12’.

Register for Enterprise 4 Kids at www. yetrust.co.nz/onlinelinktoregister.html Once registered, you will be sent the instructions to download the resource.

For more information, contact Sharron at sharron.buer@yetrust.co.nz

Meet our new team member

Sasha Webb has joined the team as our Communications Manager. Sasha hails from Northland, where she spent five years as the Regional Coordinator for the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme. Sasha also owns a small creative agency and has worked in the not-forprofit sector for many years.

Sasha has three roles at the Trust: public relations; management of key events including the Fairfax NZ Business Hall of Fame; and coordination of the YES programme throughout the Wellington region.

You can contact Sasha on DDI: 04 570 3980 or sasha.webb@yetrust.co.nz

New Patron We are pleased to announce that His Excellency, Lt Gen Rt Hon Sir Jerry Mateparae, Governor General of New Zealand, has agreed to be the new patron for the Trust. We welcome Sir Jerry and Lady Janine to the extended Young Enterprise Trust family and are appreciative of the support that they have already shown. We would like to thank

Late last year ERO published a report to help schools develop enterprise learning.

Through a series of case studies, the report illustrates how enterprise represents a significant way of delivering the key competencies. It makes the key point that ‘enterprise learning signals a shift away from a content and teachercentred view of teaching and learning, towards one that works with business and community partners to solve real problems, create relevant learning activities and engages the strengths, interests and passions of students’.

All the programmes of the Young Enterprise Trust help teachers achieve this desired outcome of enterprise education.

We connect over 900 people from business and the community with schools each year.

If you have not seen the report, you can read it online here www.ero.govt.nz/ National-Reports/Enterprise-in-The-NewZealand-Curriculum-August-2011

OECD Financial Education Young Enterprise Trust has been awarded affiliate membership of OECD International Network on Financial Education. Nominated by Retirement Commissioner Diana Crossan, we are delighted to be the first organisation in New Zealand to receive this status. ■

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Well done to the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme 2011 Winners 1. +Plus, Macleans College - Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme Company of the Year. & The Edge, Mediaworks Award for Excellence in Communications 2. Drisana Sheely, Tauranga Girls College - AUT Scholar of the year 3. Advanced Clean Energies, St Thomas of Canterbury College - The Todd Corporation Award for Young Enterprisers (2nd Place) & Movac Award for High Growth Potential & New Zealand Aid Award for Solving a Development Problem 4. Le Lunch, St Cuthbert’s College - The Todd Corporation Award for Young Enterprisers (3rd Place) 5. Back Black Enterprises, Mt Aspiring College - NZICA Award for Most Profitable Business & YET Award for Sales and Marketing 6. James Agnew, St Thomas of Canterbury College - NZICA Award for Young Managing Director of the Year 7. Grants Grindz, Otumoetai College - YET Award for Excellence in Service 8. Social Marketing Team, Auckland Seventh Day Adventist High School - Ministry of Pacific Island

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9. Moemoea Records, King’s and Queen’s High School, Dunedin - Te Puni Kokiri Award for Excellence in Maori Business & Young Enterprise Trust Award for Enterprising Music 10. Helpful Electronics, Christchurch Boys’ High School - Xero Award for Innovation in ICT 11. Tri-Healthy, Opotiki College - Ministry of Youth Development Award for Excellence in Commitment

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12. I3Dee, Westlake Boys’ High School YET Award for Excellence in Enterprising Technology.

13. Kids Emergency Evacuation Plan (Keep),

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Westlake Girls’ High School - Gallagher Award for Excellence in Social Enterprise.

14. Huanui College - Winners, BP Community Enterprise Project.

15. Twyford School -Winners, Primary Community Enterprise Competition 16. 30th Anniversary Celebration. Tamsyn Forlong and Jared Stevenson performing songs from the Rock Shop Album of the Year

by Waikato Diocesan’s Enterprising Music

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company, Speranza.

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INTERVIEW We talk to Kathy Cron about 30 years of teaching YES

At the Annual Awards event in December, Kathy Cron was the deserving recipient of the Sir James Fletcher Award for Outstanding Contribution to Enterprise. Kathy has been a YES teacher at Rangi Ruru Girls’ School in Christchurch since the scheme began 30 years ago. In light of this outstanding achievement, we asked Kathy for some insight into a few of the highlights, and some pearls of wisdom gained from the past 30 years.

Kathy Cron, receiving the award from Angus Fletcher, Chairman of the Fletcher Trust.

“I believe that Young Enterprise

was becoming important. The

with markets and with finding venues to

allows a teacher to achieve job

team mailed (via snail mail)

hold seminars etc.

satisfaction, thus I have enjoyed

invitations to petboarding

helping make a difference in my

businesses all over New Zealand

students’ lives. There have been

and I’ll never forget the first

many highlights, and here are a few:

lot of responses they got with cheques enclosed; the girls were

1. The very first product was making bags (ie actually taking over the

incredibly excited and so was I.

5. Working with many mentors along the way; I learned so much about business from those very dedicated people and I know my students did too.

6. Watching my students grow in confidence as they accomplished

3. The production of the Chocolova

so much in one year, from sourcing

‘sewing room’ as it was called

chocolate; the tasting, the design of

and talking to suppliers, to the actual

in those days) so the students

the packaging which had to be done

production of their product, and to

could carry their books around

in recycled cardboard - a first for

finally selling the product and in most

in them. I can’t remember

chocolate products.

cases making a profit.

how successful they were!

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4. The challenges we faced in

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Meeting some outstanding local

Christchurch in 2011 due to the major

coordinators and passionate managers

earthquakes, as we faced difficulties

of the Young Enterprise Scheme.

I’ve learned a lot along the way, and coming up with the best tips for YES teachers is not easy, but here’s my top seven tips for teachers: 1.

Let the students make mistakes.

2. Role play phoning suppliers and meeting business people (many students don’t know how to shake hands correctly).

3. Have a mentor you can work with, someone that is aware of the boundaries within a teaching situation.

4. Brainstorm for ideas as early as you can.

Make sure they have at least three ideas that they can research, from which they can make a justified decision and always keep one as a back up. Make sure they are achievable and most importantly, marketable ideas.

5. Keep in touch with the local coordinator, they have great resources to help you.

6. Try and get a mixture of students involved, not just ‘commerce’ students,

John Key & Hilary Clinton with a bar of Chocolova

businesses need designers etc.

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Have fun, it is a very rewarding teaching activity as you see your students grow and mature as the year progresses.

“ I have always been passionate about the Young Enterprise Scheme, as it gives our senior students that extra dimension to their overall studies. They see how to transfer the knowledge they have to the real world. Thus the change in them from the tentative, cautious young people who present at the Business Plan competition to the confident marketers at the Trade Fair truly justifies what we do as teachers of this great scheme.” ■

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I have always been passionate about the Young Enterprise Scheme, as it gives our senior students that extra dimension to their overall studies. They see how to transfer the knowledge they have to the real world.

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Kathy in the classroom

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ProgrammeNews FED Board Games

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Financial Education version of the well loved Snakes and Ladders game. Level one game play introduces financial risk and reward (through chance). Levels two and three challenge students to make wise financial decisions and avoid financial risks. This game is double-sided-(two games with varying scenarios on the squares) Decisions, Decisions, Decisions Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

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Enterprise Studies: Change to BP Community Enterprise and Innovation competitions.

Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme: Free Achievement Standard Resources for Teachers

For 2012, the BP Community Enterprise Project, and BP Innovation Competition will be stand alone projects. Students do not need to be doing the Enterprise Studies Programme to be eligible to enter the competition, but they can still be run in conjunction with Enterprise Studies.

They make an ideal extension project for more capable students.

Assessments, judgement statements, rubrics, student templates and presentations to support Achievement Standards 3.4 and 3.6 are now available free to all registered YES teachers.

For more information, contact Yolande at yolande.rosario@yetrust.co.nz

been developed by experienced YES teachers for this academic year.

Along with the YES teachers manual, these resources support delivery of selected level 2 and level 3 business studies Achievement Standards, and have

Links to a series of podcasts to support the early stages of YES are also loaded on the student resource page of the website, http://www.yetrust.co.nz/ YES/studentresources.html. If you are unable to access You Tube in your classroom, email support@yetrust.co.nz with “CD of podcasts in the subject line” and we will send these to you.

BusinessNZ Challenge: The BusinessNZ Challenge is back on the road this week, with 44 schools enrolled for the programme in 2012.

Unfortunately due to funding cuts we have had to reduce the number of schools participating this year. We are actively seeking alternative sources of funding, and hope that we will soon be working with the many schools who have applied but missed out.

Change to student fee Being a charitable trust, all of our operations, programmes and resources are supported by sponsorship. The fees for students to participate in YES have not been increased for some time. Unfortunately, because of rising overheads over the past years, we have had to increase the fee for 2012. Student fees have also been streamlined and students will now pay a single fee rather than a student fee and company fee.

The total fee per student for 2012 is $35.

For those sitting the YES exam, the fee remains at $25.

We appreciate that this is an increase to the course fees you may have advertised to students last year but hope that families will appreciate that the actual costs of participation are heavily subsidised by our sponsors, particularly the Lion Foundation. Student fee invoices will be sent in class lots at the close of registrations.

Financial Education: New board games for secondary students Games have always been a great way to learn about something as well as have fun. With an element of chance as well as requiring a level of skill, these new Financial Education board games are meaningful to students because they reflect reality, the players have a chance to make decisions and there is a definite end to the game.

Money Matters: Money Matters is a Snakes and Ladders styled game of luck, based on examples of financial activities.

The three game boards offer students the opportunity to identify wise and poor financial decisions and build up a bank of effective financial behaviour.

InEx: InEx is a budgeting game with four weeks of spending choices. Students aim to save a proportion of their income while at the same time coping with fixed and variable essentials (needs) as well as discretionary expenses (wants). It is an ideal complement to budgeting lessons.

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Connecting Businesswith Schools

BusinessNZ Challenge. The Xero awards are for excellence in innovation.

In addition, the Xero Business software is provided to all YES student companies for the period they are involved with the scheme.

Xero increase sponsorship.

We are delighted to announce that in addition to sponsoring the Young Enterprise Scheme, Xero has increased their sponsorship this year to include the

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Xero Director and Young Enterprise Trust Supporters Council Member and Awards Judge, Graham Shaw, says “You can’t help but be enthused and encouraged when you see the energy and passion of the young people involved in

Young Enterprise.

Xero’s sponsorship of the Young Enterprise Trust has enabled me to experience this first hand and what a delight it is. The quality of some of the thinking and work would put quite a number of businesses to shame.

That these skills are developed in our young people means that the next generation of young entrepreneurs will have a great foundation for their future endeavours.”

XERO and NZICA make YES accounting easy XERO and the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants are thrilled to support the next generation of entrepreneurs through their sponsorship of Young Enterprise Trust.

Rod Drury, YES alumni and cofounder of XERO, completed YES at Napier Boys’ High. XERO is an award winning online accounting solution designed specifically for small business. XERO is once again

XERO is really user friendly, but just to make it easier XERO and NZICA will be offering a live webinar in term one to lead your students through XERO 101.

Further webinars on financial planning and reporting will be offered at other stages of the YES year. Webinar content will also be available as a download.

To get your FREE YES subscription for XERO, sign up at http://www.xero. com/signup and enter the promo code LFYES12.

A Ricoh CX3 Digital Camera is also

encouraging YES students and teachers to

up for grabs for companies that submit

take advantage of a FREE Subscription for

to us a general ledger report using

running their YES business accounts.

XERO by 5 April. ■

Thanks to our fantastic sponsors and supporters. None of what you have seen in this magazine would be possible without them. If you would like to know more about how you can help, please go to www.yetrust.co.nz

SPONSORS & SUPPORTERS

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IMPORTANTDATES YES early bird company registration prize draw

Friday March 16

YES company registrations close

Thursday April 5

YES Xero competition entries close

Thursday April 5

Young Enterprise Scheme E-Days Otago

Thursday February 16

Wellington

Thursday February 16

Whakatane

Monday February 20

Rotorua/Taupo

Tuesday February 21

Waikato/King Country

Wednesday February 22

Taranaki

Tuesday February 28

Manawatu

Wednesday February 29

Whangarei

Friday March 2

Hawkes Bay

Friday March 2

Bay of Plenty

Saturday March 3

Far North

Monday March 5

Canterbury

Monday March 5

Southland

Thursday March 8

Auckland Central

Tues/Weds March 6-7

Auckland North

Friday March 9

Auckland South

Monday March 12

Auckland West

Wednesday March 14

Top of South

Tuesday March 20

Primary Enterprise Teacher PD 2012 Whangarei

Monday February 27

Auckland

Tuesday February 28

Hamilton

Wednesday February 29

Rotorua

Thursday March 1

Napier

Wednesday March 7

Wellington

Monday March 12

Palmerston North

Monday March 12

Whanganui

Tuesday March 13

New Plymouth

Wednesday March 14

Nelson

Monday March 19

Christchurch

Tuesday March 20

Dunedin

Wednesday March 21

Invercargill

Thursday March 22

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THE CLOSE

‘Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.’

Michael Dell

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