CP helps youngsters get to grips with finance through creativity

This February, pupils from Anston Park Juniors worked with young entrepreneurs to create an imaginative financial literacy resource that will help other children to understand and benefit from the enterprise activity at their school.

Creative Partnerships BDR supported the workshop, which was delivered by an innovative enterprise learning programme. The workshops aim to highlight the concepts of being enterprising and creativity has been identified as a key quality for a successful entrepreneur.

The pupils worked in groups to produce colourful and creative pages for the resource, which will include instructions on how to use it effectively, a glossary of key enterprise terms, images and inspiring designs.

Katrina-Robinson Brown owns Katrina’s Cards, a hand-made wedding stationery business and she was on hand to help the children with designs and business language. Katrina said,

“This activity is allowing the pupils to be creative and they get a real buzz out of knowing that other youngsters will benefit from their hard work.”

Graphic designer, Bob Sanderson will now take the individual pages designed by the children and put them together to make a professional document which will become available for other schools to download through the internet.