Young entrepreneurs mean business

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Friday 07 August 2015

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At NCFE, we believe learning should be accessible at any age, and pupils at Walkergate Primary School and Tyneview Primary School have been showing that you’re never too young to go above and beyond with your learning.

The young entrepreneurs, aged 10 and 11, have completed their entry level awards in investigating enterprise skills through Primary Inspiration through Enterprise (PIE), an organisation that teaches young people enterprise skills and encourages them to use their initiative.

The pupils from both schools set up and ran a successful shop in 2013, becoming the scheme’s first “PIE-oneers.” The shop was made-over from an empty property that used to be a hairdressers, where the pupils sold their home-made cushions and Christmas decorations, and the premises are still used to teach the young people about the business world.

We were delighted to be invited to attend an awards ceremony at Tyneview Primary, where former Newcastle United chairman Sir John Hall - a figure the pupils had studied as part of their qualification who has become a successful entrepreneur –presented them with their NCFE certificates.

Debi Bailey, Headteacher of Walkergate Primary School, said of the project: “We are truly embedding business skills into the curriculum,” while president of the PIE project Bill Midgley commented: “We’re committed to linking young people to potential employers and to using education to teach them about the world of work. Innovative lessons are far more effective than asking children to learn by rote.”

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