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VIGO: Children set up bank at their school
10:00am Saturday 31st July 2010 in News By Michael Purton
L to R: Pupils Katie Whatman, Isabelle Evans, Honey Lou Foreman, Charlotte Martin and Joe Thomson
YOUNGSTERS at a junior school have set up their own bank to help boost their maths and money management skills.
The bank at Vigo Village School in Erskine Road will be run and used by pupils, with support from NatWest as part of it’s national MoneySense scheme to improve children’s financial knowledge.
Students who successfully applied for a position at the bank have been given cashier training, and those with accounts can pay money in regularly and receive statements.
Teacher Lynda Ryden said: “It’s very important the students gain basic money management and enterprise skills and setting up, running and using their own bank is a practical and fun way of doing this.“
