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A trading challenge

Year 8 students taking part in trading challenge

Year 8 turned the main hall into a global marketplace, as they battled it out in the International Trade Game - trading, bargaining, and frantically crafting shapes like miniature economic powerhouses. With each team starting the game with wildly different resources, students quickly discovered why countries specialise, why trade matters, and how cooperation can either boost an economy, or send it into chaos!

Oliver Gardner, Head of Economics