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rewarding. We learnt that working as a team is more effective than working
on your own because it can produce high quality products for deadlines.
The importance of being pleasant and polite while dealing with the public
helped us make more sales.
Overall, we found the mini-company a great success and a great learning
experience.

To advertise our product we sent letters to primary schools
HOPPIN’ 2 in the Cavan region. We had a suggestion box in our letters
which we received positive feedback from the primary
SUCCESS schools. We also advertised through social media - Facebook
and Instagram and we set up a Gmail account.
In September 2017, we set up
our mini company “Hoppin’ 2 Sales began in December 2016 after we finalised our product
Success” as a six member group. Our ideas. We attended a Christmas Craft Fair in the Backyard in

Cavan. We used this opportunity to get our product out into
members include; Laura McClean (Co-manager), Emma

the public eye. We talked to people interested in our product
Bell (Co-manager & Finance Manager), Sorcha Higgins

(Production Manager), Nicole Ezeudo (Marketing Manager), and gave them our leaflets and demonstrated our product.

Rebecca Snell (Purchasing Manager) and Debbie Heaslip We also made sales at our school’s annual Christmas Fair.

(Sales Manager). On the 8th March 2017, we attended the Student Enterprise

We created a fun way of assessing primary school student’s competition in the Slieve Russell Hotel. Here we won a prize

learning and understanding. Our product is a fun, active and for Innovation in the senior category. We were delighted
educational hopscotch game which enables the teacher to with this award as we worked very hard on our mini
assess children’s learning. It is a booklet comprised of Irish, company product.
English and Maths questions, the product comes with Overall, we really enjoyed our
a packet of coloured chalk. This game combines both mini company experience and we
physical and mental activity. hope to sell our product to schools
We grouped questions for 3rd & 4th class together and 5th outside of County Cavan in the
& 6th class together to make it convenient for the teacher. future.
We have incorporated the game of hopscotch into our
product to make revising fun and appealing for children.
We included a box of different coloured chalk in the pack,
along with a hopscotch diagram with colour coding, so
the layout of the hopscotch game can be drawn on the
ground easily and conveniently. The simplicity of the game
of hopscotch brings the child back to
basics. We packaged our booklet and
chalk together using twine. We sell our
product for an affordable price at €10.
Our main target market was primary
schools as we felt our product could
be used predominantly by primary
school teachers and students. We are
fortunate to have sold our product to
many primary schools in Co. Cavan
and to other people in the area.

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