"Let us pray well and never grow weary." Catherine McAuley

HUMANITIES NEWS

AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS WEEK (ABW)

Thank you to all the staff who have assisted in the running of the 2021 ABW program. The students were amazing and exceeded expectations. They were very excited to be able to complete the program.

 

Thank you to the following people: 

  • Firstly, Executive for allowing us to run the program in a non-traditional time slot.
  • Samantha Hill Ford, Andy Higgins, Larry O’Connor, Phil Opie,  Amanda Morrison, Haydn Collins, Vicki Ellis, Kim Kelly, Dion Collins, Brock Chapman, Emmet Brown, Sam Lowe, Lachlan Murdoch, John Fleming, Fr Matt Thomas and Jodie Noblet for assisting with advice, mentoring and supervision throughout the week.
  • Melissa McNally for the student prizes.
  • The maintenance crew for making set up and pack up so much easier.
  • The canteen for always helping us and the students with last minute requests and the judges’ refreshments.
  • The library staff because they always give the students a helping hand.
  • The Art staff for all their artistic advice and the loaning of equipment.
  • The staff who judged for us, Marg Blythman, Heath McClaer, Fr Matt Thomas, Hannah Files-Burke, Jacinta Jones, Melissa McNally, David Lim and Tracy Aston.

This program allows students to see business in action and puts them into a situation where they must work with people they may not know or normally associate with. It covers many criteria beyond academic and encourages personal, social, and emotional growth in all who participate. We had a great week.

 

Four teams were involved in the Australian Business Week, these were

  • Team 1 – Sunny Coast
  • Team 2 – Royal Palace
  • Team 3 – Tranquility Resort
  • Team 4 – The Golden Goose

The overall winner for 2021 was Team 3 - Tranquility Resort.

 

Other results from the week were:

  • Team 4 - Team Building
  • Team 4 - Game Simulation
  • Team 3 - Trade Display
  • Team 1 - TV Advertisement
  • Team 2 - Company Stationery
  • Team 1 - Print Media
  • Team 3 - Company Report

Mrs Andrea Chamberlain

Humanities Learning Area Facilitator

 

Australian Business Week was a weeklong program that was run for those students who are enrolled in any humanities subjects, ranging from Business Management, Legal Studies, Economics, Accounting and VCAL. The main idea of the program is to make different students, with different personalities, work together and move towards a common goal.

 

Throughout the week students were separated into groups, where they worked as a collective to ensure all tasks were completed. The tasks included were to create a product that would be promoted by the business, make an advertisement video about the product, write a full company report, and create a Trade display that talked about the company and the product. 

 

From this program I gained the ability to work with others outside my immediate friendship group. I was able to understand that each person had different strengths and weaknesses, and that we are able to help each group in different ways.

 

Altogether, the program is a great way for students to learn the responsibility of running a business, promote a product/service and how they need to work as a team. The ABW program is a fun way to understand different aspects of a business and hope they all work together to make that business successful.

 

Madeline Dent