YES Project - Christmas Fair

Year 6 – YES Project Christmas Fair

On Friday, 6th December, our Year 6 students hosted the annual YES Fair, showcasing and selling their handmade products to Year 4 and 5 students, as well as parents. This year, the event emphasised creating high-quality items while promoting sustainability. Students carefully selected materials and incorporated recycling wherever possible.

Over 500 unique handmade items were available for purchase, including crocheted animals and coasters, catapults, eye masks, Christmas tree decorations, and pom-poms, among others. The students demonstrated remarkable creativity and teamwork, not only in crafting their products but also in designing and presenting their stalls.

We are thrilled to announce that the event raised nearly 480,000 HUF, which will be donated to a local children’s hospital that our school has proudly supported for many years.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the success of this initiative. Your support has made a meaningful difference, and we are incredibly proud of our students for their hard work and dedication!

Lesley McDonald

Year 6 Teacher

The YES Project

What a journey it was! From doing market research to making our fantastic products, it felt like an adventure!! Starting the YES fair to finally seeing it end, took round-about 2 months, although it only felt like a couple of days.

In our different YES project classrooms, we have all worked hard to prepare for our meeting to get our loan from Mr. Turner. It gave us chills when teachers told us that we had to meet with him. The principal of the school! We were hoping that we wouldn’t mess up whilst meeting him. When we had to meet him, it felt like we were turning into actual businessmen! And when we saw Mr. Turner wearing such formal clothes, -with a tie and everything, my group tried to match his straight face, and we all tried to sit up as straight as possible.

Honestly, I think Mr. Turner was going to burst out in laughter because when we entered his office, we all tried to scramble to get the seat that was furthest away from him. It was even more nerve-wracking when his banker was sitting next to him, arms folded. My heart was literally pounding like a drum going crazy. But when my group got out of his room and survived, (barely) we had a meltdown and felt like we survived the end of the universe.

Manufacturing was much better. (totally no meltdowns) It was still very nerve-wracking though. We all had separate jobs for example: advert designing / making, PowerPoint making and making the product. I was elected leader, and I started having these weird sensations that I was important. My team group name was called 5 Crazy People, and our team product were fingerboards. But our three big ideas that we started with were heart-shaped pom-poms, fingerboards and mini figure snowman tumblers. We created a vote for Y4s and Y5s to vote for which one they want, and the results were not surprising. Fingerboards received the most votes, and I was particularly happy about it.

Other groups made Christmas crackers, coasters, sleeping masks, plushies, crochet animals and many more. They were all very high quality and amazingly designed.

When the big day finally came, I was basically a complete worrier, dashing up and down the stairs scared that we had forgotten something. As I looked back to how many staircases I climbed, I honestly think that I had enough exercise! We decorated our stall as colorful as possible, to make it look more attractive. Many other groups had decorated their stalls with paperchains and colorful and detailed posters. We weren’t sold out when Y5 came but only had 3-4 fingerboards left.

Thankfully, when parents came, we were almost immediately sold out. It was so fascinating to see all the money in our hands and I absolutely loved seeing everyone’s smiles, laughter and their eagerness to buy something. I couldn’t stop moving and wanted to see how other groups were managing.

Overall, my group made 39,700ft as our profit for the children’s hospital. If you add all the money all the groups made in total, we raised about nearly half a million forints to donate to a local children’s hospital.

The YES fair was the best activity that you could ever do in primary. I hope we get to do such activities in the future. Thank you to all the teachers who helped make this fun activity for us. It has been amazing, fantastic, exceptional, special, astounding, stunning and all the other great synonyms of amazingly fantastic!!!

Nya W. (Year 6 Amber)