THE COMPANY "DIY-DO IT YOURSELF� RUNNING AT PRIMARY SCHOOL No. 6 IN OLSZTYN, POLAND Our company started working on 1st September , 2015, during the ceremonial start of the New School Year. Our students, parents and teachers took part in this ceremony.
Our company DO IT YOURSELF will deal with artistic handicrafts. We have invited all students, who are interested in arts and crafts, to participate in the activities of the company . We will deal with manual production of various decorative items and ornaments. We will mainly use natural and recyclable materials. Our motto is the ecological production. Twice a year we will sell our products in school markets, Christmas and Easter ones. The profits of our company will be reasonably shared: for the development of the company and development of the company members but also part of it will go on a charity. We will invite all students, parents and teachers but first of all, we would like to encourage our children to prepare projects and then realize their ideas . The members of our company will meet regularly to prepare production systematically . Our main goal is to focus on teaching our students how to cooperate with others and be persistent and responsible for their duties. The young members of our company will promote Polish culture and traditions of our region by creating artistic decorations.
Our company logo was chosen through a competition, in which a lot of students participated . All projects were presented in the school exhibition.
The best project of the logo was done by Anna Wdowiak & Wiktoria Fidura . Officially, on 14th October, 2015 it started to be the logo of our school's DIY.
. The business meetings of the members of our firm take place once a week. At that time we discuss what the exact needs of our local market are and we check them by school surveys among students.
In this way we learn what of our products are the most popular in our school. Ornaments and decorations are very good as small gifts during Christmas or Easter.
We organize art competitions on interesting projects of hand-made products.
Together we establish the action plan for the coming school year. The two main activities are connected with organizing the Christmas fair in the beginning of December 2015 and then the Easter market in March 2016
SCHOOL BUSINESS DIY - DO IT YOURSELF BUSINESSPLAN FOR THE ACTION: ART WORKSHOPS AND SCHOOL CHRISTMAS FAIR Company date: DIY at the Primary School No. 6 in Olsztyn; 17 Gdyńska Street Planning period: 23.11. 2015 – 4.12.2015 Goals and vision statement: making decorations, postcards, Christmas articles and presents, organization School Christmas fair sale of production with a minimum 30% profit distribution of profits: 75% compensation of employees dedicated to ticket purchase for a film show in the planetarium; 25% the charity campaign Finance required: 50 zł advertisement 335 zł materials for the products Short description of the products: - handmade angels using the flour and salt mass, baked in the oven heating to a temperature of 150C, hand-painted and lacquered - hand-painted and lacquered moulages prepared to handing - gold or silver laquered Christmas trees 3D made from pasta and beads - handmade and laquered Christmas trees 3D made from pinecones - Christmas cards made from paper and decorative items - hand-painted Christmas paper for wrapping presents - paper pendants for gifts
- Christmas wreath from natural product: nuts, pinecones, dried fruits Short desciption of the market: Pupils of the Primary School No. 6 in Olsztyn Teachers of the Primary School No. 6 in Olsztyn Pupils’ Parents People responsible for the project:
Coordinator: Małgorzata Cioch – a teacher Project manager: Urszula Wróblewska – a teacher Advertisement: class 6a SP6 Production: students of 5 and 6 classes SP6 and the international class Erasmus+ Vase Strenghts of the project: Property: tools and capital assets necessary to production Financial resources Product: connection with coming Christmas and great demand for the Christmas products Promotion: posters and leaflets made by students, direct meetings with the potential customers Distribution: free of charge place at the school fire for the local community Weaknesses f the project: The market limited to school community Production line based on unqualified workers Time of production limited to 8 hours Time of sale limited to 4 hours Source of funding: Financial contribution for the others means of productions are funded from: the resources from the VASE project realized within the framework of the Erasmus+ programme – The project management – 50% the own resources of the school – 50%
The sales plan: angels and the other Christmas bas-relieves from the flour and salt mass to handing – handmade, than baked in the oven heating to a temperature of 150C – made to December 9th 2015 - articles hand-painted an lacquered to December 12th 2015 - packed to December 1st 2015
moulages to hanging: - hand-made moulage to mould to November 12th 2015 - painting and lacquering to December 1st 2015 - packing to December 1 st 2015 Christmas trees standing 3D made from pasta - Christmas trees bonding to November 11th 2015 - painting on gold and silver colour on 13th Novemmber 2015 - sticking beads – 16th November 2015 - packing – 1st December 2015 Christmas trees standing 3D made from pinecones on the stand - hand-made bonding to November 10th 2015 - lacquering – 11th November 2015 - sticking beads – 1st December 2015 - packing – 1st December 2015 Christmas cards made from paper and decorative items - paper folding to November 9th 2015 - cards decorating to December 1st 2015 hand-painted Christmas paper for wrapping presents - making of the stamps with potatoes to paper decorating – 1st December 2015 - paper decorating to 1st December 2015 paper pendants for gifts - paper folding to November 9th 2015 - cards decorating to December 1st 2015 - packing – 1st December 2015 Christmas wreath from natural product - hand-made bonding to November 24th 2015 - decorating – 1st December 2015 - packing – 1st December 2015 ALL SEMI-FINISHED PRODUCTS PURCHASED AND SUPPLIED TO SEPTEMBER 30TH 2015
The marketing plan: Market analysis – 30th September 2015 The Christmas fair will be the only event of its kind. The project has no competition. On the basis of interviews with the potential customers,
observations, conversations there is a great interest with hand-made products among students, parents and teachers. Advertisement - Production of the advertising posters to November 11th 2015 - Posters dissemination to November 24th 2015 - Production and dissemination of leaflets with trade offer – November 30th 2015 - Advertising meetings – 1st December 2015 Sale promotional campaign on the school grounds – 2nd December 2015 Direct selling at two sites at the school – 2nd December 2015 Product price Summary and risk assessment project: The scale of threats should be estimated and „the emergency plan” should be proposed to mitigate the undesirable effects. The project depends on: - changes of demand for the Christmas products connecting with the lack of resources of students; students are the biggest group of customers - labour shortage in the first phase of the project: hand-made preparation of the basic elements of the products - exceeding production costs - wrong evaluation of production, selling and the financial result - incorrect planning of the implementation deadlines of the project phases - technical progress - change in the Euro exchange rate