During Term 4 of Year 7, we worked on a project called the Christmas Market. This was to put the skills that we learnt in Economics and Business into real life. It added limitations because there was a budget limit of $30 and only 4 weeks to get everything ready. We worked in groups to prepare a pitch, product, ad, and stall for the day of the Christmas Market.
The first step was creating a product. We decided on reindeer baubles. To get this idea approved we had to pitch to get our budget of $30. Our pitch passed on our first try and we got our budget. Then we bought all our materials and started creating. We collaborated well and therefore the first part of the Christmas Market went by quickly and smoothly. We were also very organised so we got our pitch done as we knew it was a priority.
We started our creating process very late so it was quite stressful. However, we got everything created and we didn’t even spend all our budget! We used sustainable materials and were creative when we didn’t have enough of them. However, our creativity showed the most when we were creating our ad. The ad was a hard task where we had to use some key concepts of advertising to present our product before the market. I showed leadership during this task when I took the lead for writing the body copy and the headline as well as choosing the colours for it.
The day of the market had finally arrived. We had everything ready and were organised. We were given a $20 float to use for change which we used quite bit. A spreadsheet was also given to keep track of our sales. This meant we had to be super organised and keep everything on track. We also had to communicate effectively during the market because there were so many roles and things we had to do. We also had to communicate well with our consumers and make our intentions clear.
I learnt so much from this project an I thought this was a great way of using our skills we learnt in Economics and Business and apply it to real life.