1. How would you reinvent a school blazer
Innovation Challenge
How would you reinvent a school blazer
to give it a new life?

2. Use the following slides to complete your
entry to the Innovation Challenge.

3. Role of each team member e.g. researcher
About you
This year, John Lewis’ Sustainability Managers set you the following challenge: How would you reinvent a school blazer to give it a new life?
Project report: Please complete this Project Report to tell the judges about your work and how you completed it. To bring your ideas and finished product to life, please also document your creative process by including photos throughout.
Team name: _____________________________________________
School: _____________________________________________
Names of team members
Role of each team member e.g. researcher
Age of each team member

4. Your team
Please put a photograph of your team into the space below. (You can insert images by clicking on the ‘Insert’ tab, clicking on ‘Pictures’ and then searching from your computer’s library.)

5. Answer boxes (max. 300 words per response)
Planning your ideas
We’d like to know all about your ideas and how you came to decide on the final idea which you used to reinvent the blazer.
Planning your ideas
Answer boxes (max. 300 words per response)
What ideas did you consider when thinking about how to reinvent your blazer?
What idea did you decide on and why? Tell us about the pros and cons

6. Planning your ideas
Please include three images below which show evidence of your team planning your ideas. You can insert images by clicking on the ‘Insert’ tab, clicking on ‘Pictures’ and then searching from your computer’s library.

7. The Innovation Process Answer boxes (max. 200 words per response)
Your innovation process
Tell us about the innovation process you followed by answering the questions below.
The Innovation Process
Answer boxes (max. 200 words per response)
How did you research the idea for your finished product?
How do you think you worked as a team?

8. The Innovation Process Answer boxes (max. 200 words per response)
Your innovation process
Tell us about the innovation process you followed by answering the questions below.
The Innovation Process
Answer boxes (max. 200 words per response)
Did you face any difficulties along the way? If so, what did you do to overcome these?
What did you learn from doing the Innovation Challenge?

9. Your innovation process
Please include images below which show evidence of your team’s innovation process. You can add slides to include more photos by clicking ‘New slide’ on the ‘Home tab’.

10. Answer boxes (max. 200 words per response)
Your finished product
We’d like to hear all about your finished product. Please answer the questions below as fully as you can.
Your finished product
Answer boxes (max. 200 words per response)
What materials did you use and why?
What have you reinvented the blazer into?
Were you pleased with the results?
How does your product help to address a sustainability issue?

11. Your finished product
Imagine that you now have the opportunity to sell your finished product in a John Lewis shop. In the box below, write a short description of your finished product that would encourage shoppers to purchase it (max. 300 words).

12. Your finished product
Please include photos below of your finished product. We’d also like to see a photo of what (if anything) is left of the original blazer. You can add slides to include more photos by clicking ‘New slide’ on the ‘Home tab’.

13. Submitting entries
Ask your teacher to send your completed entry alongside their full name and telephone number to by
5pm on Friday 25th May.
Large files may need to be shared using WeTransfer:

14. Congratulations on completing the challenge.
We look forward to receiving your entry.
Best of luck