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What is Financeium for KIDS
Financeium believes in today’s kids becoming active and responsible leaders of tomorrow. Financeium offers business and finance education for children to help their parents fill the gaps of the current educational system and provide kids with essential knowledge and skills through engaging and interactive content
I have never heard of finance classes for kids before, what should I expect for my child?
Without sounding arrogant, we can promise that you can expect a considerable improvement in your child’s understanding of the modern financial and business world. Our program offers a systematic approach successfully applied to kids and youth in different age groups.
What is a lesson like?
Each class consists of interactive activities. A large portion of our class time is dedicated to open real-life finance discussions. The tutor fosters constant student participation by encouraging each child to share his or her opinion and driving a productive dialogue. Problem solving and critical thinking are an important part of the class, where the majority of problems include assumptions to teach kids how to solve real-life problems. We also encourage students to come up with challenging topics and questions for their peers. The course curriculum is adjusted to each child’s interests and development level, so in one class we might spend more time watching videos of children entrepreneurs and trying to understand what they are doing and in other classes we might read an article about the modern financial markets.
What is the minimum age requirement?
The “Finance Basics” program is developed for children 8-11 years old. The minimum age of student must be 8 years old.
What is the maximum age requirement?
For the one-on-one tutoring program, the maximum student age is 16 years old. For the “Finance Basics” program, we accept children up to 13 years old. Children above 13 are welcome to participate in our conferences or on-demand tutoring programs. Contact us to learn more about our additional programs.
The program say 8-years is the minimum age, however I think my child who is your than 8-years, can handle the program. Can I enrol her?
We will be glad to evaluate this option on a case-by-case basis. Please click here to schedule a personal interview to discuss this matter with us.
Are children of different ages in the same class?
Children in the same classroom will have similar competence levels of finance and will match each other in terms of overall maturity. It might well be the case that the children of different ages can sit in the same classroom if we believe it is beneficial to the learning process. We will always attend to your concerns, but will reserve the right to choose on the most optimal classroom make-up.
I want to sign up my child for a Financeium program, how do I go about?
Book a personal interview or simply reserve your trial lesson here
How much does a programme cost?
Financeium programme is ZAR 1 200 per month and once off admin fee of ZAR 500.
At what times do the lessons take place?
We currently offer this programme at various schools and the slot gets allocated by the school, please advise where you child is and we will inform if we offer the program at that school.
How long is the lesson?
Class length is 45 min. (We tend to have 30 min of “productive study time” and reserve up to15 min for “fun” moments, connection time and to assure proper connectivity).
Do the programs involve homework?
Amount of homework is chosen based on your child’s availability and wishes and varies from none to a couple of hours a week. It is always practicing the concepts learned. This is carefully chosen to avoid over-burdening children with work
What is you cancellation policy?
For private tutoring: Cancellations made prior to two (2) weeks of the start date of the course will be refunded in full. For cancellations made within two (2) weeks of the start date, we will charge a cancellation fee of ZAR 500 and the fee will be credited toward future purchases.
What is financial education?
If your child does not like the program or cannot participate for any other reason, we will be happy to refund your money. You are entitled to a full refund before the program starts or within the first 3 weeks of the course, provided your child did not miss the scheduled classes.
What happens when my child misses a day?
Your child is entitled to one free-of-charge make-up session, per month.
I have never heard of finance classes for kids before, what should I expect for my child?
Without sounding arrogant, we can promise that you can expect a considerable improvement in your child’s understanding of the modern financial and business world.
Our program offers a systematic approach successfully applied to kids and youth in different age groups.
Our program offers a systematic approach successfully applied to kids and youth in different age groups.