Christmas Market
During InnovatED, Year 7 prepared for the 2020 Christmas Market. The Year 7 Christmas Market is an annual event for all saints. The Christmas market is a market full of year 7’s split into groups that had to make a product to sell with an investment of $30. All the money that is made for the Christmas market gets given to a charity. We split into groups and made a product to sell to the students and teachers. I got put into a group with Anna He and Alicia Reynolds. We made beach in a bottles and windchimes.
The Beginning – Economics
During HASS we learnt about the basic terms of money. Not only did these lessons help us with our Christmas Market but it will also help us in the “real” world. We also had to use these terms in our HASS reflection. These lessons were very helpful for me as I had heard the words before but had no idea what they meant.
InnovatED
On the first lesson of InnovatED for term 4, we got put into groups to interview each other on what they think Christmas is to them and others. We were also asked what we would want and what other age groups would want for Christmas. I noticed that my group had the same idea for the age groups, this was helpful because it meant that most people in age groups will like around the most stuff. This also made it easier to select a target audience
Design Thinking Process – ideate
Over the next couple innovatED lessons we looked up different ideas that we could possibly do. this is apart of the ideate stage of the design thinking process my group had a lot of ideas but we decided went through many stages of elimination and my group ended up with a beach themed stall and beach themed products. Our products are beach in a bottles and windchimes which were made out of natural windchimes with a unit cost of 17c and $3.94.
Products/Stall
Before and during the Christmas Market we kept the price to $2 for the beach in a bottle’s and $4 for the windchimes. I believe that this was a good and reasonable price because people wouldn’t want to pay too much and our products weren’t too cheap for my group not to make a profit. Neat the end of the Christmas Market we ended up being sold out and having a revenue of $96.05 and since we used $20 of the $30 investment we had a profit of $76.05.
Overall
Overall this my experience with the Christmas Market was successful and taught me many life lessons for later on in my life. I am happy how my results came out and how much we raised for charity.