You Rock Ilam School Kids!!

Our great assembly!

Last Thursday we had a fantastic school assembly. Our special guests were Richard from the SPCA and Anneliese from Alzheimer's Canterbury. They were thrilled to be there to receive the incredible amount of money we raised from 'Run a kilometre for charity!" They each received a whopping $4500 from Ilam School kids!  They were very pleasantly surprised! Richard said it was the biggest cheque the SPCA had received!!

We all felt very proud that we had done our bit to give back. The House Captains presented the cheques to the charities and felt very proud they had chosen these two important organisations to support.

We also announced the prize winners from the junior, middle and senior school. These children had raised the most money! After that, they announced the house that had raised the most money. That house was RAKAIA! 

A HUGE well done to EVERYONE at ILAM SCHOOL.

#KIND#ILAMSCHOOL#GIVING BACK

Run a kilometre for charity!

On Thursday of Week 5, we are going to 'run a kilometre for charity!' The Ilam School House Captains have chosen to support the SPCA and Alzheimer's Canterbury!

How can you help?

Get some friends, family, relatives or neighbours to sponsor you to run the kilometre.

Remember to explain what you are going to do to earn the money and who the money is going to.

Give it a go and support these two worthy causes!

http://www.spcacanterbury.org.nz/

http://www.alzheimers.org.nz/canterbury

Not Just For Profit!

Starting up a business!

The Senior School are having a Market Day at the end of the term. We are donating money to a charity of choice that we have researched. Right now, we are going through the process of starting a business so that we will know what to do for the actual market day.

First, we had to form a company. Some of our company names are: P.O.E.F., Mionionaires For Charity, Extreme Treats, Candymen, Fantastic Fizzers and Sweet Station. 

Determining roles and who was doing what..

We were given a recipe. We decided on who was doing what role then we made our product -  Sherbet Lollipops! We had to make sure there was "quality control" with our products. This meant making sure all of the products were high quality and looked the same. 

Making the product

Team Work

Next, each company came up with a price for each Sherbet Lollipop. Prices ranged from $1 to $2.20. We had different reasons for the prices we chose.  The teachers told us that we had to pay the money for the ingredients back. We worked out how much we owed the teachers and then calculated possible profits we could make with different prices. The total amount each group has to pay back is $4.10. 

Working out the amount of money owed to the teacher

Next, we had to think about marketing our product. We thought to create print adverts to hang around the school, ads on the computer, notify the school through the Daily Details and write large advertisements in chalk on the concrete. Many of us included slogans in our advertising.

The next step is selling our products at Morning Tea on Wednesday the 21st of May. 

We will let you know how this goes!