Around the School
Year 11 Business Management - Market Day
On Thursday the 25th of August and Tuesday the 30th of August, Year 11 Business Management students from Ringwood Secondary College ran their annual Market Day event. Students had to plan and run their stalls with the aim of breaking even with all profits made to be donated to charity. In groups, students devised a marketing plan and created stalls made up of lollies, chocolates, baked goods, crepes, toasties, ice cream, popcorn, soft drinks and many other sweets and savouries. Students also ran games with prizes such as guess the numbers of lollies in the jar and sold trinkets such as phone charms and perfumes.
Student Sienna P from Mr. Gallucci’s class has kindly shared her experience during market day. “For for our year 11 Business Management class, my partner Amy and I decided to make beaded phone charms. They have become really trendy, especially with people our age so we thought it would be a good idea to sell them. It took ages to make each one but we ended up making 31 in total to sell for $4 each. By the end of lunch we had one left and after eagerly waiting, we sold the last one. We ended making $47 profit which will all go to a charity. The school raised a lot of money through market day and it was good to be a part of it.”
This year we will be donating to ADRA Community Care Centre in Croydon who run the VIVE café. Vive Café is a food relief project in Croydon, operating for 12 years, distributing food parcels to anyone in need of support and a takeaway cooked meal program. We are proud to be able to support a local organisation who make a positive and valuable contribution the community. In total, we managed to raise $1955 across the two days
Congratulations to everyone involved in Market Day and thank you to all students and teachers who came down on the day to show their support and purchase our products.
Mr. Del Sureto, Mr. Gallucci, Mrs. Menz & Mr. Stephens
Teachers of Year 11 Business Management
Armistice Walk
Year 9D students went on the WW1 Armistice walk and learnt about Ringwood's involvement in World war one.
We had an interesting period walking around Ringwood, stopping and learning about the WW1 history of the suburb and those who served.
It was a great learning experience.
Thanks, Mr Thomas, for the fun activities.
Yr 11 VCAL PDSV class
Well done Brady, Pare, Muang Pi, Law May , Bawi Cem who raised money to buy food for needy youth at Ringwood.
The food was donated to ‘For The Kids at the Base’ in station st Ringwood. Carisssa Rash who is the CEO of this organisation was very appreciative of this much needed donation
Voula Margellis
Yr 11 VCAL PDS Teacher
Year 7 Economics
Year 7 students all completed an economics unit in the last couple of weeks of term 3. Students learnt about demand and supply, productivity and supply chains and marketing.
Students looked at the circular flow model, consumers and producers and how businesses respond to demand using a Farm to Fork is game to meet the needs of consumers for potatoes and potato products.
Students looked at government intervention in the economy and looked at how businesses responded to changes during covid and lockdowns.
Students played the Lemonade game and learnt about how businesses determine a price for goods and services. Students taste tested a range of potato chips to set a price and determine perceived value. Students finished the unit looking at changes to demand and supply and identifying what factors could affect demand and supply and how this impacts price of goods.
Year 7 Field Work
Last week year 7 students had the opportunity to get out in the field and evaluate the liveability and sustainability of Ringwood Secondary College, testing the hypothesis that Ringwood Secondary College is liveable.
Students collected qualitative data by emotionally mapping the school grounds and quantitative data by measuring temperature, wind and humidity and evaluating the school environment by completing a bipolar survey including the quality of buildings, paths, litter etc.
This week students will be working on using graphs both hand drawn, and computer aided to display their findings before analysing their data to determine if the hypothesis is supported.
