Fruity Tutti Triumphs

Jude's ice cream


In Year 5, we did a business project to test our teamwork. We did it with Jude’s Ice Cream company. First of all, we did some detailed research on Jude’s website about Jude and her families’ company. After that, we made a leaflet all about Jude’s Ice Cream and the story of the company.

We were also lucky enough to go to the factory itself. We were fascinated by the journey of ice cream and how it is made. After the amazing trip, we got back to school and did taste testing in the afternoon. This helped us design our flavour. We tasted a variety of different bases and toppings.

The next day, we named our group and we made a group charter stating all the rules to keep our team fair and successful. Furthermore, we created a questionnaire to give Year 4’s. That helped us decided our key information and flavour of our business.

Over the next few weeks, we had to put together a powerpoint presentation, create a design for our product and packaging. Also research a charity we wanted the profits to go to, calculate the costing of production and the profit we would make. Then finally present all our work on a A1 poster.

When Jude visited Oakwood, each team performed their pitch showing her the powerpoints and posters of all our hard work. After watching them all, she made a very difficult decision of choosing the winning team.

The winning team was ours (The Fruity Tuttti’s and our flavour was called Brazilian Sweetness; strawberries, white chocolate chips and a vanilla base.) This project was great fun! Everyone learnt so much about teamwork and how designing a product and running a business works. We also learnt lots of new ICT skills, because all our work was done on Google Drive. This allowed us to work together and use several programs; Google docs, Google slides and Google sheet. Learning how to do calculations on Excel was tricky but great, when we could do it.

Thank you Jude and your team for everyone that allowed us to have the opportunity to do such a fun topic.

By Fruity Tutti (The winning team)