Last Friday the SLC hosted a fabulous MARKET DAY which was the culmination of many weeks of work. The children started out looking at advertising and the language used to sell a product. With the goal of creating, making and selling a product the children created advertisements for their chosen product, created flyers, developed shopping lists of what was needed to create their product. Comparisons of the cost of supplies were made, children researched the cheapest item and worked out the cost to set develop their product and its estimated turnover.

The MARKET DAY was an opportunity to use real life mathematics, problem solving, written language, oral language, creativity and imagination. It has been a unit of work that has been challenging but hugely rewarding for all the children. Children had to work in a team, listen to the opinions and ideas of others and the result on the day was impressive ! The happiness and excitement of all of the children on MARKET DAY was palpable and many many parents and grandparents commented on the rich learning experience the unit had provided.

Not Only did the students have a rich learning experience, they also managed to raise over $2,000 in profits for charity.