Up in the top block, on three separate Fridays, you will find a flurry of market activity. In the weeks prior, during ISTEAM days, learners let their creative imagination run wild. Becoming a stallholder is part of the excitement. Constructing signage, painted cardboard mini games, lucky dip activities, or even dreaming up brand names, is so much fun.
Like most design processes, students build on what has gone before. Plans change mid construction and often students model their ideas on ones they have seen previously. As the excitement mounts plain paper $1 money is handed out. Valueless, yet highly valued when there’s shopping to be done! One class hosts the market, the other two become customers.
The buying spree begins. There might be origami delights, bookmarks, handmade paper sporting collections, original artwork set to print, guessing games, written stories, stickers, or even mini ball games with prizes to win.
Now, you never quite know what will be on offer until the actual day arrives. So, when you hear the market date has been set, best not be absent from school! Be there to enjoy this blossoming Senior School Owairoa tradition, a market trend in the making.
