Curriculum and Learning

Market Day - A Great Success!

Last Friday, 30 October, the Year 9 Commerce students transformed the Year 7 Yard into a bustling marketplace as part of their annual Market Day. The event saw students design, promote and operate a variety of food stalls, attracting large crowds from across the College throughout lunchtime.

As part of their Commerce studies, students were challenged to apply key business concepts in a real-world setting. From conducting market research and budgeting to pricing strategies, marketing and customer service, students gained valuable firsthand experience in what it takes to run a successful business.

The Year 9 students demonstrated outstanding initiative, teamwork and entrepreneurial spirit as they managed every aspect of their stalls. Popular food offerings and creative branding helped generate strong interest, with many stalls selling out before the end of the event.

Beyond the excitement of the day, Market Day provided an important opportunity for students to develop practical business skills, including financial management, decision-making, communication and problem-solving. The experience highlighted the challenges and rewards associated with operating a business and reinforced many of the concepts studied in the classroom.

Most importantly, all profits raised from the event will be donated to the Year 9 Charity Focus, ensuring that the students' hard work will make a positive difference in the wider community.

Congratulations to all Year 9 Commerce students for their efforts and enthusiasm, and thank you to the staff, students and families who supported the event and helped make Market Day such a memorable success.

George Sacco

Head of Department - HSIE B

SPC Theatre Club

On Monday night we attended our final SPC Theatre Club event for the year, seeing Strong Is the New Pretty, a new play by Susie Miller.

As a theatre club, we have been fortunate to see all of Miller’s plays in their first productions, beginning with Prima Facie, which has since become a major West End success, followed by Jailbaby, and now Strong Is the New Pretty.

This latest work is a brilliant piece of theatre that celebrates the passion, resilience, and grit of the women who helped bring AFLW to fruition. The staging was deceptively simple, with the ensemble of female actors, a series of microphones, and those iconic red AFL footballs forming the foundation of the set. Clever use of digital screens brought a contemporary Brechtian approach to staging in this energetic and highly physical theatre show.

Theatre Club has now been running at SPC for eight years. What began as a small initiative for Drama students has grown into an SPC wide community invitation open to all students, their families, staff, and the wider SPC community. You do not need to take Drama as a subject to sign up, and we don't attend productions because they are part of the curriculum, although occasionally those interests align. Instead, we go to the theatre for the fun, as a community to experience something different, to encounter new ideas and perspectives, and to immerse ourselves in somebody else’s world for an evening.

One of the unique aspects of Theatre Club is its flexibility. It is an invitation rather than an excursion. Members can choose the productions that interest them, whether that is a single performance or every show on the annual program. Students are welcome to attend with their parents/carers or independently, and equally, parents are welcome to join us even if their children are unable to attend. This community approach has helped Theatre Club become much more than a Drama initiative; it has become a shared cultural experience for the broader SPC community.

I am currently in the process of selecting next year's theatre program. As always, the aim is to introduce our community to outstanding theatre and diverse stories. Over the past eight years, Theatre Club has seen a wide range of theatrical works, these have fostered a shared appreciation for live performance and the unique experience of gathering together in a theatre to hear stories that challenge, entertain, inspire and start a conversation.

If you are interested in being part of theatre club 2027, please register your interest by filling out the form below:

Theatre Club 2027 – Fill out form.

Rebecca Duff

Head of Performing Arts