Year 5 and 6 Market Day

MARKET DAY

It is, without a doubt, that everyone will remember the market we held this Wednesday. However, most kids won’t have known what happened leading up to the day. They don’t know about the preparation that happened before:

About in the middle of the term, about 5 weeks ago, the year 5’s and 6’s began market day planning. We got into groups and decided on some topics. Later that week, everyone decided what they would do as their stall, with a nice variety of ideas. So, with that, we began our planning. However, before that, we had to get our money from the “investors”. The shark tank presentation planning went for about 1 and a ½ weeks, and, in the end, everyone got their money. After 2 more weeks of preparation, market day had finally come. The excitement was buzzing around the school, as the parents began to arrive. For everyone, the goal was simple: make the most money. As younger students started pouring out of their classrooms, there was chaos at all 20 stalls, with children all reaching into their little bags of money, beanbags being thrown, ping pong balls bounced and soccer balls being bashed, business couldn’t be going better. One group even had a fortune telling tent! After a while, things slowed down, but only momentarily, as stallholders went out to spend their money! It was rush hour all over again! 15 minutes later, things were calming down as discounts started flying all over the place. A bit later, the market was closed. 

Later that day, we found out who made how much money. We were in for a surprise, as one group crushed the teacher stall, making almost $300! (the teachers made $202, beaten by about 5 other student stalls.). Overall, the school made just under $3000! The day went very well overall, with the raffles being very successful especially.

By Joseph B

On the 10th of December 2025 we had the 5/6s participate in market day. We sold food like popcorn, lollies, chocolate and cookies. We played games, had our fortune told and tossed coins for chocolate. We also got a lot of visitors very quickly, there was no time to relax with how busy it was. Before we started market day we learned about profits and we had a shark tank where each group presented their ideas, hoping to get $30 to spend on our market day stall. We worked for a total of 6 weeks and it was worth it. Other groups included a doughnut group, a beanbag group, a spin the wheel and raffle group, and a hair coloring group. In total we raised $2,839! What a success we made! The group who made the most money was the choc toss group who made $309. We all had so much fun participating and creating our ideas for this day. 

By Audrey H

On Wednesday, 10th of December Week 10, our year 5’s and 6’s made stalls at our Market Day hosted by St Justin’s Primary School. Both year levels combined together to form boy and girl groups of 4 to 5 people. Each group decided what their stall would be about, how to run it, what items they'd need to buy and, lastly, the jobs they would have for the day too. 

But before all of this we needed to learn a little bit more about what a profit is, what not for profit means, and some intriguing ways to hook our buyers in. For example, advertising, by making lots of colourful posters to engage our younger consumers  and some reasonable prices for the adult consumers. We learned even more about this through the business and economics topic in our inquiry lessons. 

Once we had all this information drilled into our brains and written down all our ideas we were all ready to present to the Sharks (Mr Torpey and Mrs Snell). In our Inquiry sessions we have also been watching the show Shark Tank. It is about people asking the Sharks (other business people) to invest money in their business to help make their products popular all around the world. Now it was our turn to do so. Each group had to create a script about what their business/idea will be about, how we will make a profit, and what we will spend the $30. Overall it was a great experience and a very successful day. 

By Amelia Pa 

A few weeks ago, the Y5s and Y6s started planning for a market stall. We got put into groups of 4 or 5 and had to decide on a topic straight away. There were 20 groups in total with all great ideas like a beanbag toss (my group), choc toss, hair chalk, waffles and many more. We were all given about two and a half lessons to organize what we will need for our stall and the jobs on the day. 

When those sessions were finished we found out we would be doing a Shark Tank presentation for $30. We spent two more sessions working on our scripts and actions. Luckily it was a huge hit, because every group got the additional $30 to spend on their prices and equipment for the big day.

After this we had a little break but as soon as the next session started we were all in business. We had gotten ready by making posters, price lists and even points lists. We were all really excited.

 As time got closer to the Market Day we started handing out money to get supplies. We all went all over $30  by a bit with our own money but it was worth it. The day before Market day we had to get our stalls ready as the other students would come at 9:30am. We brought all our supplies and by the end of it the Y6 classes had no tables or chairs at all. 

On Market day we took out all our supplies early in the morning and made it look all nice. By 9:30 it looked great, then came the students running in checking all the stalls and spending money. It was all so busy everywhere you could barely get through to different stalls. It was absolutely great, and we all got to spend our own money as well because we had our own breaks when things calmed down. By the end of it most stalls were all sold out.

Overall it was a huge success with the Choc Toss raising $296 in profit, the Soccer Stall raising $279 and the Bean Bag Toss raising $239 in profit. Oh and that was just the top 3 stalls. Our grand total ended up being over $2800. It was all so fun and we earned so much money while also learning how successful people over the world get money and I’m sure everyone would love to do it again.

By Zavier P