Year 7 Business and Economics

In Year 7 Business and Economics students have been working on a task called ‘Shark Tank’. In this task, we have a theoretical $10,000 budget to spend on a potential business idea. With this, we have created and designed our own products or services. We have utilised our creativity and developed our business and economics skills through budgeting, researching and presenting. Imogen Martini, Maddi Preece, Marli Francis and myself interviewed Sarah Macrae who is a past student from St Aloysius who started making jewellery for fun during and after school as a hobby. She worked in a supermarket until one day when a friend told her that she should start a business selling jewellery. After some convincing, she made her first sale to another friend when her website launched. It was great to get some inspiration!  

Sophia Barker, 7 Green 

Year 8 Market Place for Change

On the 15th and 16th November, the Year 8 students participated in the Market Place for Change. From the start of Term 4, my fellow students and I planned, trialled and put together a market stall. Each week we would spend 2-3 periods (100 - 150 minutes) coming up with ideas for our stall. I was in a group with Maddison Clark, Grace Cawthorn and Lillie Voorzaat. We all worked together to come up with the idea of a Lollie Stall. We got the idea from Choo Chews Lollie Shop at Margate Train where you go in and choose what lollies you get and pay by weight. After we had come up with our idea, my group and I went around the class asking our peers what their favourite lollies were. After we had some idea of what people would be interested in, we went onto Shiploads, Woolworths, Big W and Kmart to search for the lollies and find the cheapest option for more lollies. Once we had the lollies settled we started working on containers and serving utensils. We decided on tongs and plastic clear containers. When the day finally came around we set up our table and organised the lollies into our containers. For this assessment, my group spent $84 and made $135.05 and a profit of $51.05. Some of the problems my group faced on the day were; Change - we were selling our 100g of lollies for $2.50. We didn’t seem to have enough 50¢ coins so I had to compromise and exchange $1 coins for 2 x 50¢ coins but it all worked out in the end. Another thing that we encountered was we only had 2 scales so we could only serve 2 people at a time which meant there was a line-up. Other than this I would say that the day was a great success and I can’t wait to see what the Year 8’s do next year.

Lucy Callaghan, 8 Blue

Year 8 History

In Year 8 History, students have been learning about Shogunate Japan. Exploring the culture, geography, social structures, the different religions, Samurai. Towards the end of this unit, students were given the immersive experience of trying a range of Japanese foods. A tasty experience for all!