Youngsters’ first-hand experience in market challenge
IT’S that time of year again when preparations are under way for our annual Carmarthenshire Young Traders competition.
This event is always popular and gives youngsters the opportunity to experience first-hand what it’s like to set their up their own business.
It consists of six teams of year six pupils who have to develop a business idea and turn it into a profitable enterprise.
They must plan, purchase material/products, brand it and run it for themselves on a stall in the Carmarthen Outdoor Market for a day.
Over the course of the challenge, pupils can improve their employability skills, gain a greater understanding of the world of work and make a positive contribution to the community they live in.
The winning team will be the school which has made the most profit at the end of the day.
Any money made by the pupils goes towards their school.
We’ve had winning teams in the past who have made profit of over £700 which is a great boost to their school fund.
More importantly, all the children that have taken part have thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
We’ve been in contact by email with all primary schools in the county and as there is such demand to be involved I’d urge head teachers to get in the entries quick. Schools will be chosen on a first come, first served basis.
Good luck everyone!
CMY mind permanently fizzes with questions like “Why do we have bank holidays even if we don’t work in a bank?”.
We’ve recently been drowning in bank holidays.
If you missed one, another was due any minute.
Monday, May 27 – the Spring Bank Holiday.
Monday, May 6 – the May Day Bank Holiday.
Monday, April 27 – the Easter Bank Holiday.
And just before that, the Good Friday Bank Holiday.
TV bosses didn’t consider any of them special as the schedules were exactly the same as any other weekday, stuffed with cheap lifestyle shows, looking-for-antiques shows and consumer advice shows. Plus, the lunchtime show featuring a coven of women who spend most of the hour complaining about how terrible men are.
Until they bring on a ‘hunky’ good-looking actor to talk about his new film/series and then drool over him in a cringeworthy manner that, should the sexes be reversed and four middle-aged men leered over a young actress, the #metoo brigade would rightfully demand it be taken off the air.
Someone with his tongue firmly in his cheek described bank holiday Mondays as: “A chance for fat, bald men in vests to sit outside pubs drink
ing all day, occasionally swearing at their unruly children.”
A little cruel perhaps – though some of you will know it’s not entirely untrue.
So! Do we really need Bank Holidays? Go on. Ask yourself.
I’ve got nothing to do for the next five seconds.
Those of you employed by someone else probably enjoy them. While the self-employed and retired can take leave ’em.
England and Wales get eight Bank Holidays a year, Scotland gets nine, including St Andrew’s Day, while Northern Ireland, including St Patrick’s Day, gets 10.
Whether it’s unfair Wales and England don’t have a day off work for their patron saints depends on your opinion of bank holidays.
I’m not sure we should have a Saint David’s Day Holiday.
For starters, I wouldn’t fancy drinking outside a pub all day in my vest – not in March! ’em or