Salma Ahmed
and Klaus Bung
Promoting your school
Learning platforms - on-line learning
Talks and presentations: Economics for children, Hindu culture
A service for ambitious headteachers
Presentations on 'business life',
aimed at 9 to 11-year-olds
(objective:
Every Child Matters:
Achieve economic well-being):
Introduction
The government initiative "Every Child Matters" focusses on the following areas:
The Government's aim is for every child, whatever their background or their circumstances, to have the support they need to:·
- Be healthy
- Stay safe
- Enjoy and achieve
- Make a positive contribution
- Achieve economic well-being
Source: http://www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/
The presentations offered by rtc Schools address 'economic well-being'. They try to make children aware of the most basic notions of business life to help them to be more successful later in life - in business, in employment and with their personal finances.
Dr Bung recently met an intelligent and hard-working 16-year-old boy who had been recommended by his high school to do business studies at college, because he had appeared to be so good in this field in high school. Dr Bung tried to elicit from this boy some understanding of the concept of 'interest'. But however gently Dr Bung prodded, the boy evidently did not have a clue.
This shows that, even at high school level, and even amongst the best students, there is still a lot of ignorance about basic economic concepts.
If these are sufficiently simplified and well presented, they can be understood even by primary school children. Such basic understanding will serve them well at high school and college and later in life.
If children learn these concepts early, they will become second nature to them (like speaking English, their mother tongue), and they will make better decisions in personal finance, as employees or as entrepreneurs. They will have a better chance to 'achieve economic well-being' as the government demands.
This is the reason why rtc Schools offers these presentations.
Each presentation will take xxx minutes. The concepts will be developed in dialogue with the children (which will take time), and there will, of course, be a chance for the children to ask questions or to suggest other topics which should be covered on future occasions.
The argument for each topic is provided below, but the presentations themselves will, of course, be much less concentrated to make sure the children have time to suggest them.
Topics available at present
- Three Ways of Wasting Your Pocket Money:
or: How poor little John became a big millionaire - Buying and Selling
- How banks make their money
- Supply and Demand
- Saving and Borrowing
- Saving and Interest
- Finding a customer
- Bookkeeping
- To Do Lists
- Networking
- An interview
- How to win friends
- Are you happy when prices go up? (or: Who is happy when prices go down?)
- Persistence
- Why German is such an easy language to learn
- Why mathematics is good for you
- Taking notes. Memos. Storing business cards on the computer
- Don't let the computer mess you up (saving, backup, crashes, viruses, copies, storage)
- It isn't my fault
- Why money is important
- How to learn absolutely anything, if you really want to
- Practice makes perfect
- Keeping your papers in order (letters not on the mantlepiece, but in a ringbinder, filing system; keep evidence, keep copies, alphabetical ordering, etc)
Headteacher to suggest other topics that children would find useful. Please phone us if you want us to prepare a topic that is not on our present list:
t: 01254-261 009
m: 07729-90 60 30
English children ignorant about the wider world
The findings come months after schools took on a new duty to promote community cohesion under the Education and Inspections Act 2006.
DEA chief executive Hetan Shah said: "An education system that leaves English children globally illiterate without a basic understanding of world events or problems and intolerant towards those from different backgrounds is one that sets children up to fail."
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