A group of five Year 10 students from Saint Paul’s Catholic High School took fourth place at this year’s Stock Market Challenge for schools held at The University of Manchester.
Schools from across the North West took part in the virtual challenge, which saw Year 10 students competing on a virtual stock market trading floor. The challenge provided students with a chance to increase their business and economic understanding, put their mathematics to the test and develop key skills such as team working, problem solving, critical thinking, analysing information and communication.
The event was based on the real life stock exchange whereby the students buy and sell shares in real time, based on news reports/updates. The idea being to make sound investments based on the information provided and analysing the news as it is presented, with ultimate aim of being the team with most amount of profit by the end of the exercise.
The competition’s key objectives were to enable students to apply their learning in mathematics, and to develop business awareness, transferable and employability skills, enterprise and entrepreneurship.
Miss Chadwick, Maths teacher, who accompanied the students commented: “The competition was about trading against other teams and the team who won was the team who had the most money, our school came 4th but lost out on 1st place by a very small margin. We did win the second prize in the best media analyst category.”
