The Official launch of Krazy Keybandz
Report by Darren and Jack M.
The official launch of Krazy Keybandz took place in Bekan N.S. at 7 O’Clock on the 18th February 2016. The story telling team presented a PowerPoint on the company Krazy Keybandz. After the presentation we sold the Keybandz to parents of Bekan N.S. We made 195 euro. We are going to sell in the school to students next week. This will also give the younger children an opportunity to see our company.  We are very happy with progress we made on Krazy Keybandz.  We are delighted to see that all of our hard work is paying off.
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Selling at McHale Park
On Saturday the 5th of February. Some pupils out of Bekan National School started selling Keybandz before the Mayo vs Dublin game begun. We sold Keybandz for 2 hours before the game. We brought a sign so everyone could see what we were selling. We sold county colours Keybandz. Best of all, we were tweeted by a famous person on twitter.
By Nikita 

Production Begins
It was the 1st of February and Krazy Keybandz started production. We started making fishtails at first then started making starburst and fuzzy friends. While we were working we ran out of red which was a problem. So we had to order more. When they came we started making them ASAP because we were low on stock on bands. We had to order some key rings for the fuzzy friends. When Friday came we made signs that Collette Jennings kindly gave us from Londis. We wrote our logo and our school name and some of our products on it. On Saturday the 5th class pupils went to sell our products outside McHale Park. They made a profit of 105.5% which was €190. We were ecstatic about the amount we had gotten so far. J
 
By Kyah Legg and Pearce McDermott

Krazy Keybands (Marketing)
 
The marketing team’s job was to design a logo, organise venues to sell our product and design posters.
 
        The marketing team’s first job was to design a logo for the company. They decided to create a logo that had a colourful design. They chose a colourful design so it would stand out and grab your attention.
         They had to organise some venues to sell the product. Jessica called Mc Hale Park for permission to sell the product outside the park. The marketing team then had to send an email to them for permission. The next day they emailed back and they granted us permission to sell outside the park.
       
        They designed the logo and advertisement posters for the company. The posters were clear and easy to read.
 

Congratulations to our Girls' Gaelic Football team who won the Mini 7s area final recently. They performed very well on the day and displayed some excellent football and teamwork skills. We were absolutely delighted with your performance girls and it was a great feeling to bring the cup back to Bekan NS for the third year in a row! 
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​Declan Foley came to visit us recently. Declan is an entrepreneur and has a business called DesignWest in Kiltimagh. He came to talk to us about his business and give us advice about ours.
He showed us some of the work he did (advertisements, logos etc.). We asked him multiple questions. He told us that he has a business in New York and he told us all about what he does. He is a Graphic Designer.
He also told us that he met an old friend in the street and the man offered him a job. He took that job and that’s when he realised he wanted to be a Graphic Designer. Then after that he set up a business himself. He gave us some advice and said “having a business may be hard but it is fun”. I enjoyed Declan’s visit and I would love if more business people came to talk to us.
By Dylan Golden

We are delighted to announce that six of our students have been placed on the cup 1 leaderboard challenge for LearnStorm Ireland. This is a nationwide competition and these students were placed in the top 100 in the country in their category- a fantastic achievement. Congratulations to Saoirse and Darren who were placed 57th and 62nd respectively on the 5th Class leaderboard and to Jason, Pearce, Chloe and Nathan who were placed 2nd, 39th, 63rd and 86th respectively on the 6th Class leaderboard.

Bekan N.S.were placed 8th on the Mastery (points per eligible students) leaderboard. We are thrilled with these results. Keep up the hard work everyone- cup 2 in already underway!

4th, 5th and 6th Class are currently participating in the national LearnStorm competition. Many of our children have been placed on the weekly leaderboards.
2016-03-05
4th Class / Primary 6
Mastery Leaderboard- #78 Alannah H.
Hustle Leaderboard #35 Alannah H.
5th Class / Primary 7
Hustle Leaderboard #27 Saoirse
 6th Class / Year 8
Hustle Leaderboard #32 Jack J.

2016-02-27
4th Class / Primary 6
Mastery Leaderboard # 4 Caolan
                                   #78 Treasa
 Hustle Leaderboard #97 Treasa
5th Class / Primary 7
Mastery Leaderboard #36 Aoife
                                  #90 Chloe K.
Hustle Leaderboard #90 Sarah F.
                                #92 Dylan G.

2016-02-20
4th Class / Primary 6
Mastery Leaderboard #88 Treasa
Hustle Leaderboard   #14 Alannah H.
5th Class / Primary 7
Mastery Leaderboard #31 Sarah R.
Hustle Leaderboard #85 Saoirse
6th Class / Year 8
Mastery Leaderboard #15 Chloe M
 Hustle Leaderboard #53 Bernadette
                                 #81Chloe M
2016-02-13
4th Class / Primary 6
Mastery Leaderboard #11 Treasa
                                   #50 Andrea
                                   #65 Alannah H.
                                   #82 Simon
                                   #100 Rianna
Hustle Leaderboard  #10 Alannah H.
5th Class / Primary 7
Mastery Leaderboard #12 Saoirse
                                   #22 David 
                                  #67 Sarah R.
                                  #82 Chanel
                                  #95 Aaron
6th Class / Year 8
Mastery Leaderboard #24 Jessica
                                   #88 Chloe M
Hustle Leaderboard   #37 Pearce 
                                   #64 Jessica 
20162016-02-06
5th Class / Primary 7
Mastery Leaderboard #35 Darren
 6th Class / Year 8
Mastery Leaderboard  #1 Jason
                                    #17 Pearce
                                    #63 Nathan
                                    #75 Jack J
 Hustle Leaderboard #7 Jason
                                 #74 Pearce