Business Simulation Event For Year 9 Commerce Students

Catherine McAuley Westmead Market Day
The Year 9 Commerce Market Day provided students with an opportunity to learn about key business functions.

Three Year 9 Commerce classes were involved in a business simulation event on Friday last week linked to the Commerce topic ‘Running a Business’.

The students had the opportunity to run a real life business of their own creation.

There were 14 stalls across the three classes and for the first time every stall was involved in selling a food item. It was a windy day which meant that all the students were challenged in selling their carefully selected products in Mercy Square to a wide school market.

This event was a great learning experience for the students as they were able to learn about the key business functions (operations, marketing, finance and human resources) and the effort that goes into running a proper business.