Empowering Your Child’s Future

If anyone knows just how creative and curious your 11 or 12 year old is, it’s you. They’re at a great stage in their lives right now, and it’s also a crucial one for their future development.

At this age, your child’s old enough to know a bit about how the working world works, enthusiastic enough to learn and work together with their peers, and still young enough to be unaffected by the growing “career pressure” that comes with secondary education. That’s why it’s the perfect time for them to take part in the Junior Entrepreneur Programme, and get a practical taste of real-world experience that’ll stand to them for life.

HELPING WITH MATHS

During JEP, children invest a small amount of money and need to monitor costs and sales closely to ensure they create a profit. They learn fast when they are talking about their own money.  In a JEP survey 85% of teachers said that JEP enhanced the teaching of maths. 97% of participating pupils said they would recommend it to a friend.

Empowering Your Child’s Future

The Junior Entrepreneur Programme (JEP) was created to allow every primary school pupil in Ireland the opportunity to embrace entrepreneurship as part of their formative education.

Thinking Like an Entrepreneur

JEP departs from traditional teaching, allowing the teachers become facilitators, letting pupils think freely and understand what entrepreneurship really means. Children use their creativity to come up with individual business ideas, they come together as a class to choose one idea and then work as a team to turn the idea into reality over a 12-16 week period. They meet with a local entrepreneur to hear their story and ask questions. Many children have expressed surprise that such exciting enterprises are on their doorsteps. Their questions and reports on these visits reveal incisive questions and deep understanding of important activity in their locality.