Designed to complement Business Studies at GCSE, BTec and A Level, I combine my experience as a fully qualified accountant with my business experience to deliver well planned and delivered engaging content.
Why a Cheshire Chocolate Studio workshop?
I come to school so no travel costs/time meaning it’s less expensive for the parents and less organisation for the school.
It’s interactive and fun which aids learning.
I have over 9 years of working with children so know how to engage children.
I’ve had lots of lovely comments over the years I’ve been working with children including the following:
'Amanda certainly knows how to entertain children' and
'You ran a superb party which managed the tricky balance between seamless organisation and a really relaxed, fun atmosphere'
‘Excellent presentation & delivery’ – yr 6 teacher (Mayans)
‘Amazing. More interactive and less costly than Cadbury World’ yr 3 teacher (Advertising)
Workshop options.
I currently offer 3 workshop options:
- Standard workshop with Business Studies focus
- Product creation workshop with Business Studies focus
- Product creation workshop with product costing, pricing & profitability task
The workshops are between an hour and three quarters to two hours and fifteen minutes duration.
Please see below for overview of each workshop.
Choice of business topics I can incorporate
- Background to my business – how I spotted the opportunity and put it into practice
- Making the business effective –managing and delivering customer expectations
- Financial decisions – pricing and profitability
- Marketing – what works well for me & how do I manage marketing
Overview of Standard Workshop with Business Studies focus:
- Short introduction to chocolate
- Make a chocolate lollipop
- Bean to bar presentation
- Talk 1 on your choice of business topic
- Chocolate tasting - with discussion
- Talk 2 on your second choice of business topic
- Wrap lollipops to take home
Approx 1 hour 45 mins
Product Creation Workshop with Business Studies focus
- Short introduction to chocolate
- Brief explanation of different chocolate techniques to be used
- Create a moulded chocolate lollipop
- Make and decorate hand-made chocolates
- Make a chocolate item using a third technique
- Bean to bar presentation with props and chocolate 'nibs' to taste
- Talk 1 of your choice of business topic
- Chocolate tasting
- Talk 2 on your second choice of business topic
- Wrap produce to take home
Approx 2 hours 15 mins
Product Creation Workshop with Product Pricing, Costing & Profitability Task
- Short introduction to chocolate
- Create a moulded chocolate lollipop
- Make and decorate a couple of hand-made chocolates
- Students calculate costings, pricing and profit for their products
- Bean to bar presentation with props and raw nib tasting
- Presentation of my version of costings, pricing and profit I use
- Chocolate Tasting
- Talk 1 on your choice of business topic
- Wrap produce to take home
Approx. 2 hours to 2 hours 15 mins
This workshop has one talk on your choice of business topic (rather than 2) as the students have a product costing task to complete.
Workshops cost
The standard workshop is £295 per workshop, £545 for 2 workshops in one day.
The product creation workshops are £345 per workshop, £625 for 2 workshops in one day.