A School disco for all of the school years and organise a DJ to come and play. When ever there is a disco organised by the school at Christmas or end of school for the summer they seem to be very successful and they are very cheap and easy to run and organise. The only weakness is that the school has already had a disco in this school year and there is likely to be another one before school finishes for summer.
A Trip to the Giant’s Causeway for the 5th years. This could be quite boring for people who are not interested in the history or Northern Ireland and also it is far away so it would take some time to get there but on the other hand it gives the pupils a chance to see some of Northern Irelands land marks.
A Football tournament for all the girls or boys who play football in school, or who ever wants to join in. This would be a popular event with both boys and girls throughout the school and it would be especially easy to organise but girls may feel intimated and might not want to take part.
A Trip to Spain to learn about Spanish culture for lower 6th’s students for 1 week. The year group would be very interested and it’s educational but it’s very expensive to organise and health and staff may be an issue.
Talent show open to all years in the school for singing or people’s special attributes. It would be a fun event to organise and simple to organise and another thing is that’s it’s held in side school so this don’t involve travelling anywhere. The only thing that might let us down is not enough people wanting to get involved.
Go-karting in Eddie Irvine sports in Bangor for upper 6th sixth. This would be an enjoyable event to organise and easy to plan but there is a major let down which is the health and safety aspect of the whole event and it is also really expensive for the amount of time you get to go on the karts.
A Fashion show for all years of school and try to let them model clothes for shops. It would be a hard event to organise as trying to find someone who would let the pupil’s model the clothes and it would be at a great price if someone actually did. On the other side of things it would be a very exciting event to manage and organise and I think it would be thoroughly enjoyed.
Take a group hiking up the Mourne mountains for a day. This would be good exercise and would be quite interesting along with great views over County Down and Newcastle. It may not also be a popular event as there is walking involved.
A Sponsored walk from Holywood to Crawfordsburn Country Park for charity and open to anyone to take part. This event costs nothing and at the end of the day a charity benefits from the money raised from everyone and it is along a form of a non tiring exercise.
From the 10 ideas which he have talked about and their strengths and weaknesses we had then to break this down into 3 ideas which we though seemed the most popular when talked about. The 3 we chose where the 6th Year meal, sponsored walk and go-karting. These then had to be put through a SWOT analysis (strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats). We chose these 3 choices because we thought they seemed the most feasible and easy to organise.
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6th Year meal
- Sponsored walk
- Go-Karting
When the SWOT analysis was done we had to then as a group chose the one which we where most wanting to do but also the most see able for working out in the end. We chose the 6th Year meal as this seemed to be a feasible idea to do and everyone was very toward this idea. The was the best one to choose as it would have been a popular event with everyone and it would give everyone a chance to reflect and have a good night.
This idea was organising a meal for the upper 6th’s as this is their last year in the school and we want them to leave with a good memory in their heads. There is a choice of three areas:
- Function room
- Restaurant
- Hire outsider caters
- Function room
Before we had chosen the rooms to go look at we found out the prices of some of the popular function rooms. The Stormont hotel was free on the 10th April and it was £250 for the room and the meal on top of that was an extra £25.
The Park Avenue Hotel had to phone back later on in the day with a price. Their prices are shown in the appendix.
The price for the Europa Hotel was £450 for the Dublin suite with a minimum of 32 heads. 2 door mean are included and no DJ and dance floor.
The Clandeboye Lodge was 3 different prices £21.50, £25 or £30. This gives 3 different rooms for the size of the party. The brochure is in the research section.
With the function rooms we went and saw the Clandeboye lodge hotel, Cultra Manor and the Park Avenue hotel. When we went to these places we had phoned up a few days before we where wanting to go look at their rooms available asking if it was ok if we did come down and view the rooms. When we arrived there, there was a member of staff waiting on us arriving in the reception of the hotel and manor.
- Restaurants
We had also researched restaurants which we sent out a questionnaire to all of the staff and pupils to get feedback on which restaurant are popular. This is the way the feedback came back from us to be able to choose what destination or types of meal we where going to have:
1. Would you be interested if we were to organise a meal for 6th year and staff?
From looking at this bar chart and analysing our results from the market research we now know that we have 100% of the pupils and staff would attend this event.
- Would you attend the event if it was held in?
From the above pie it tells us that more of the pupils and staff would like the event to be held in a function room.
Again we have a joint decision as the numbers are the same and the staff and pupils would enjoy the event to be held in a Restaurant.
56% of the staff and pupils had said they would like the meal to be held in our school. But from the other 2 pie charts it shows it would either be a functions room or in a restaurant.
- Which location suits you best for this event?
From the above bar chart it shows us that we have a popular vote of having this event in Belfast as we got a high vote of 24 for this location.
- We asked how many people would prefer jest a meal or entrainment after?
This is a hard choice for us to make as we got a draw of 50% each if to get entertainment or not for after the meal.
- How much they will be willing to pay for ticket?
From this pie we are now aware that the customers will be willing to pay between £26-£30 per ticket for this event to be held as we got a vote of this price of 46%.
We also phoned up 3 outside caters which one of 3 gives us a quote and the other two said they would send emails and never bother to. So we have one quotes on caters. If we where hiring in caters the places where they could potentially go are the Library, Assembly Hall Careers Room or the Canteen.
We also thought of additional ideas which we thought we could have along with some of the options we have chosen. We though of having a guest speaker at the meal like a teacher which has left and was a popular teacher with the other teachers he/she worked along with and the pupils. We also had the idea of a charity raffle and all the money raised would go to a good cause. Also we were thinking of a reunion dinner where we asked former pupils which left in the same year as us but we stayed on to come to a dinner with us.
