Rivercrest Christian College year four students are helping fight poverty by making handmade gifts
On Tuesday, 7th June, the Clyde North students took part in the annual ‘Market Day’.
As part of their Year four unit of inquiry, ‘How we organise ourselves’, students are learning that entrepreneurs use opportunities to creatively meet supply and demand.
Students teamed up with fellow classmates and formed little businesses and created products that were sold on Market Day.
Products were non-edible items such as jewellery, stress toys, paper craft and games to be played.
Students attending the Market Day each received a token book to the value of their donation and were free to use these tokens to purchase products from the stalls.
“It was really cute, as you can see by the pictures, watching our younger students being helped by their buddies to make their decisions and transactions.” Melissa Binks year four teacher, said.
The Market took place in the Rivercrest Christian College classrooms and breakout spaces.
The entire Rivercrest Primary School was invited to visit the stalls and each student was encouraged to donate up to $5 for fundraising.
All money raised will be donated to the schools chosen charity Compassion, a Christian international holistic child development organisation.
Through their Child Sponsorship Program, more than 2 million children are currently being released from poverty.
“There were so many learning aspects involved in the process,” said Gabrielle Zeibig, another year four teacher at Rivercrest.
“Students learnt business skills, marketing, fundraising, design, craftsmanship, communication, working with buddies, teamwork, public speaking, entrepreneurship, negotiation skills and much more.
“Most importantly they learnt the joy of giving the profits to such a worthy organisation, such as compassion, and helping children a similar age to themselves be released from poverty.”
