Oakridge – India’s Largest International School is on another mission to nurture a very important and significant trait among the future generation- F.Q – Financial Intelligence.
Financial Intelligence, as every modern educationist opines and agrees as an important and critical trait to be nurtured among the children, as much as the emotional intelligence. Very few schools in India have started organising Financial Intelligence workshops for children and that is a considered welcoming move.
But that is not sufficient, in order to build a critical life skill among the children, what you need is a constant activity.
Oakridge International School will be the first school to introduce Financial Intelligence as a part of the regular curriculum from Grade 6 onwards. The curriculum is effective this academic year – 2014-15 across the Oakridge campuses – Hyderabad, Bangalore, Visakhapatnam and Chandigarh campuses.
Mr. Arjun Rao, Principal, Oakridge Bengaluru Campus, who is also spearheading the Financial Intelligence classes in his campus, says,” The FI curriculum starts from Grade 6 onwards and will be advancing with more topics and activities for the subsequent classes.”
“For Grade 7, 8 and 9, the curriculum starts with a foundation class that set their basics”, he adds.
The entire curriculum is being categorized into Economics, Life Planning, Money Management, Government and Financial Institutions and will have activity based learnings, simulations and games designed for that.
Ms. Boney Rao, Head Mistress, Oakridge Bengaluru campus, opines that Financial Intelligence as a trait is the need of hour among the millennium children. The aim of the curriculum is to create an essential trait of money appreciation, understand the money flow, savings, how economy works and the longer goal is to build the entrepreneurship qualities among the children.
Oakridge has teamed up with the seasonal financial wizards to make this curriculum – simplied, children friendly and more exciting.
“Now a student of Grade 8, who has undergone Financial Intelligence Program, can easily understand how money is distributed in the economy and inflation and can easily calculate the education loan by himself.”
This is called true global education and we all welcome it, don’t we?
About Oakridge International School
Incepted in the year 2001, Oakridge International School is a center for excellence in education. Keeping the rich heritage of India and providing a top-notch atmosphere, Oakridge is spread across the country with branches in Bengaluru, Mohali, Vizag and Hyderabad (with two campuses) with more 7,000+ student community. Oakridge is affiliated with IB PYP (International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program), IBDP (International Baccalaureate Diploma Program), CIE (Cambridge International Examinations) and CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) to bestow children a world class learning experience.
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