Enterprising Music

Overview

Your students develop a professional standard recorded CD of their own work. Your students also develop the enterprise skills needed to design marketing material and sell CDs.

Benefits for your students

At the end of the Enterprising Challenge Day, your students will:

• Have produced a music composition of the required quality to record professionally.
• Have worked as a team to design marketing materials and a CD cover.
• Have solved problems under pressure of time and change, and recorded the results.
• Be able to describe the strategies used to ensure sales and financial targets are met
• Have produced and delivered a presentation orally with suitable visual aids to sell their proposals to a selection panel.
• Experience a sales environment first hand along with the responsibility of dealing with money.

Benefits for your school

• Immediate tangible outcomes showing development of enterprise awareness, and individual personal development plans
• Ofsted requirements are met and exceeded
• E4A’s experienced business people run the day
• CDs sold by your students can raise funds to be used within school, or to support chosen charities.

Content

Paul Lee, a professional recording artist and musician, delivers an action packed day demonstrating the science of music and creating a professional recording of your school’s musical skills. Paul then records your concert, or individual musicians, showing the students how to capture the best professional acoustic quality.

Meanwhile, your enterprise students work on the marketing and design challenge and have various tasks and roles to perform including:

• Designing CD covers to market their unique product within their school and local community.
• Creating and presenting a Business Proposal to maximise sales of the CD using spreadsheet model.

Learning Styles

The day is based on group work, role plays and exercises to encourage participation. Business people provide professional delivery, enabling your students to learn through practical experience. Business activity, teamwork, time management and presentations are just some examples. This day is appropriate for all abilities.

Awards

• Awards are given to the team with the best proposal and demonstrating the most commitment to teamwork and performance. 
• All your students receive a certificate of achievement.

Past Achievements

Listen to some of the tracks the students have produced to date:

• Oom Pa Pa
• Jingo
• I Got Rhythm
• For My Girl
• Everytime

For more information on the structure behind the day, please go to Research.

Click here to download the Enterprising Music brochure (1337k).

Click here to download the E4A booking form (75k).

Please note: We only offer Enterprise Challenge Days to schools in Lancashire and Cumbria. Contact us on 0845 054 2552 if you would like a Challenge Day and your school is out side of this area.

E4A Ltd, PO Box 135, Waddington, Clitheroe. BB7 0AJ
Registered No: 5536957. Registered Office as above.
Tel: 0845 054 2552, Fax: 0845 051 9378
Email: enquiries@e4a.org.uk