A practical guide for school teams
How to choose a school entrepreneurship programme
Before comparing providers, agree what students should practise, who will run the sessions, and what evidence your team needs at the end. This guide turns those decisions into twelve practical questions.
By Informative Academy ·
Comparison framework
Compare the learning experience, not just the brochure.
Use these six areas to bring different formats and suppliers onto common ground before deciding which questions need a deeper conversation.
Purpose and student fit
Name the decisions, habits, and projects students should practise, then check that the programme is designed for their age and starting point.
Active student work
Look for choices, simulations, discussion, reflection, and projects rather than a timetable dominated by presentations.
Facilitation
Clarify who runs each session, what preparation they receive, and how the plan adapts when a group needs a different pace.
School fit
Compare timetable, group size, devices, rooms, staff involvement, delivery mode, and the work required before and after sessions.
Safety and inclusion
Ask how safeguarding responsibilities, accessibility, student privacy, data handling, and support needs work in practice.
Review and next steps
Agree what the school will be able to review and how student work will shape a repeat, extension, or change in direction.
Choose the shape
Workshop, short sequence, or longer pathway?
These formats solve different school problems. Start with the student experience you want, then choose the smallest shape that can deliver it well.
Single workshop
- Often useful for
- A shared introduction, launch, or focused challenge.
- Question to settle
- What can students genuinely practise and complete in the available time?
Short sequence
- Often useful for
- Repeated practice, a project, or a theme across several sessions.
- Question to settle
- How does each session build on the last, and what happens between sessions?
Longer pathway
- Often useful for
- Deeper projects, reflection, iteration, and progress across a term or programme cycle.
- Question to settle
- How will the school sustain momentum, review student work, and adapt the pathway?
What to ask
Twelve questions that reveal how a programme will work.
Ask for concrete examples. A useful answer should describe what students and adults will actually do, not rely on broad claims about engagement.
Student experience
What will students do?
Delivery fit
How will it run?
Assurance and review
What can your team rely on?
Worked review example
Follow one decision from first choice to revised reasoning.
Illustrative example, not programme results. Prices in this example are shown in neutral units. A student team is testing a refillable desk organiser. The school can follow how one commercial choice changes as the team uses cost evidence and peer feedback.
1. First choice
The team sets a price of 18 after comparing its idea with a premium competitor.
2. Evidence
Its cost sheet shows that the product costs 11.20 to make, while five peer conversations indicate stronger interest at 14–15.
3. Revision
The team replaces rigid gift packaging with a reusable sleeve, lowers the cost to 7.80, and chooses a price of 14 for the next test.
4. Next decision
It will compare a preorder at 14 with a smaller version at 12, then explain which margin-and-demand trade-off it would pursue.
Safeguarding, data, and access
Make the operating responsibilities clear.
Before delivery, agree who supervises students, who responds to a concern, what information is collected, which adults can see student work, and how accessibility needs will be supported. These should be practical delivery answers, not footnotes discovered after selection.
Put the checklist to work
Choose a practical starting point.
Tell us the age group, timetable, and who would facilitate. We'll help identify whether a workshop, short sequence, or longer pathway is the sensible starting point.
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