1. The Roman Forum Our Money Project
Years 3 and 4,
Chaddlewood Primary School

2. What was the project all about?
The children…
worked as a team
used their imagination to think of a product no one else had made before
found out how much things cost and how much they could sell their product(s) for

3. What was the project all about?
The children were asked to think of Roman or Tudor things that they could make and then sell at a special Historical Spring Fayre at the end of term.

4. Week 1 – The trip
Week 1
Find out about how much things cost on our trip tomorrow
Decide on the team of people you are going to work with
Think about a possible product you could make
Start to come up with some ideas in your team
Decide on a product or products that you think you could make

5. Market research… at Mayflower Centre Gift Shop and the Aquarium Gift Shop
What products can you buy for less than £1.00?
What is the most expensive thing you can find to buy?
What would you choose to buy in this shop?
How are the products laid out?
Are particular things sold in certain places?
Is it easy to tell how much things cost?
How does the shop keeper give the product to the customer when they have bought it?
Are the products good value for money?

6. Week 2 - preparations Week 2
Find out how much it will cost to make your product
Find out how much people are ready to pay for your product
Put together a presentation for Mr Mower to explain all about your product in order to get the £20 you need to get started
Order the things you need to make your product

7. Our brilliant Roman Top Trumps and finger puppets
Roman top trumps cards.
Great fun to play with your friends. Battle against each other to win cards.
Materials: card, laminating pouches, colouring pencils.
Play with our Roman felt finger puppets to make your own theatre.

8. Why are we selling it?
During our research lots of people said ‘yes’ they would buy them.
Top trumps are cheap to make.
Both products are great fun to play with your friends when it’s raining.
Collect them all.

9. How we will tell people about it.
Posters
Letters/ flyers
Talk about it in assembly

10. Thank you for listening and please give us the £20.
Ethan
Rhian
Jay
Thomas
Gladiators Gladious

14. Week 3 – planning and making
Work out a plan for making your product in your team
Start making it!

15. Week 4 - advertising Week 4
Make leaflets and posters to advertise your product, construct a webpage, speak with classes across the school
Make posters to advertise our Historical Spring Fayre
Ask people to display your posters

16. Week 5 – stall plans Week 5 Make your stall
Work out a plan of who will be doing what when on your stall
Make sure you have enough change to give your customers
Run your stall

17. Week 6 - evaluations Week 6
Work out if you made any profit – if so, you keep it!
Think about what you could have done better
Tell Mr Mower whether we should do the project again
Have a holiday!

18. What do you think that you learnt during this project?
Week 6
Learn how to give change to other people
How to work in our group/team
How to try and sell everything
About money
How to add up
How to sell stuff on a stall
That you have to work hard
When people buy stuff it means that we worked hard
How to count money
How to give change
How to make clay balls
How to sell products
That selling stuff makes money

19. What did you enjoy the most about the project?
Week 6
Everything
Selling and making money
The fayre
Making the products
Getting money
Selling our products
Making a product, and seeing what it looks like afterwards
Eating buns!
Painting our products
Buying products

20. What did you enjoy least about the project?
Week 6
Nothing
I enjoyed everything
Shouting
Lots of people didn’t buy anything
Losing money
Making purses
Not making enough money to cover what we spent
Counting
Worrying about if we had enough products to sell
Waiting for people to buy things

21. What did you enjoy least about the project?
Week 6
Giving change to other people
Coming up with ideas to make more money!
Learning about prices
How long the project lasted for
Lowering our prices to sell everything
Only having a small amount of money to spend
Having something that didn’t sell

22. Additional comments Week 6
We should have had the fayre only after school
It took too long to set up the fayre
It was brilliant and fun
It was really good
I didn’t like waiting for people to come
We did not sell as many postcards as we thought we would