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To Market, to Market...

Friday 9 November was Market Day for the Grade Eights. For months now, the Grade Eights have been planning, preparing and packaging their products for Market Day, and they impressed the school enormously with their entreprenurial skills. For those who celebrate Christmas, it was quickly found that this was an ideal time for some pre-Christmas shopping, and several were overheard bemoaning the fact that they should have brought more money!

Converting the hall and Wellington Quad into their market place, the Grade Eights quickly transformed the school into a thriving business metropolis. They had a lesson in which they could set up their stalls, and the task-centredness and organisational skills evident in the groups would have been the envy of any disciplined teacher.

Not only were the products themselves assessed, but their advertising, their customer relations and the control of their stalls and money. Although sales were only allowed to begin during the prolonged break, staff members were seen begging the Grade Eights to part with their wares before the rest of the school could buy them all out.

From candles to dream catchers, from stress balls to those that fizz... they were on sale.

There were cakes, and popcorn, and pizza and something from the Sweet Doctor...

You could purchase things from forest creatures to funky photo frames....

You name it ... the Grade Eights had them.

They took orders for things from head bands to slap chips ...

and there is no doubt that at the end of that period, they were a great deal richer, and the pockets of the school a great deal lighter.

                    

This is a new development in the high school and is part of the Outcomes Based Education course followed by the Grade Eights. Certainly Market Days are going to be something that the school diarises in the future.

Move over suburbian Craft Markets and Green Market Square! Wynberg Grade Eight Girls can give you a run for your money any day!

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