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Marketing Basics

Your child knows how people find out about what you sell: posters, signs, and word of mouth. They can design an advert that draws people in.

In curriculum terms

How people find out about what you're selling; signs, posters, social media, word of mouth; being persuasive; the basics of advertising and promotion

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If your child wanted to advertise a car wash or bake sale, could they design a poster that would make people want to come?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on
Who Is a Customer?ages 5–7Must understand customers before learning to reach them through marketing
Having a Business Ideaages 7–9Business idea provides context for what to market
Marketing Basicsthis skill · ages 7–9
Unlocks
Pitching an Ideaages 9–11Marketing skills support persuasive pitching

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.

This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).

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