Kids can entrepreneur too!

  It is often assumed that students should innately know how to study and make good grades not bearing in mind that certain skills and basic techniques are required to achieve this. Just like a chef require skills  to develop recipes, plan menus, and  create those sumptuous dishes, or a seamstress  need to have a good eye for detail and be able to sew straight lines with a sewing machine  so does a student, require skills to know how to study. With exams coming up in May, we highlighted the following tips to help students excel in their academics and study more effectively. Tip 1: Read every day where possible. Make studying like eating every day. Just like you need to maintain a healthy body by eating, so do you need to maintain healthy grades by studying. Run a study check-in by asking, ‘Have I eaten today’? If you have, then you must study too.   Tip 2: Repeat to retain. Repetition eases the way for new learning to ‘sink in’. It increases mastery. You could share what

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."  - Jack Welch About 70 kids joined our 1st life skills session for the year…the 2nd in the series tagged: ‘Developing a leadership mindset’...This included 8 kids from an Orphanage in Nigeria - Yay!!! The session was aimed more at 'Self leadership, Self-growth and Self direction. It was interesting to see how many Parents were asking if the session was for Parents or for kids and I had to clarify this during the session. Of course, leadership and related topics are not taught in schools hence I could understand the confusion but that’s what we do! -  Teach skills and topics hardly taught within the classroom!!! We started off by explaining why it was important to learn these skills - one of which is that it is useful for profiles and school recommendation letters. But also that it’s important to have a leadership mindset for the future. But

Hello again! It was a great time out on the 21st of October with the over 50 kids who attended our life skills development workshop with the topic - 'Vision Boarding' We took time out to explain the following: What a vision board was Why a vision board is important How to create a vision board Other Materials such as the Audio book narration of  Yewande Zaccheaus who had a dream as a young girl to own a business and a video from Steve Harvey, who had a vision of being on Television at the age of 10 were used to buttress the need for a vision board and also served as an added motivation for the kids. Worksheets were given to guide the kids to create their own vision board which was meant to be a half-term activity. Above all, we received extremely positive feedback from the Parents some of which are as below: "The content was superb. It was a lovely session. The kids loved it and we will definitely be attending again". "In my son’s word “ it was engaging and inter

Hello and welcome back to our blog where we post exciting updates about our kids related programmes.  On Monday the 29th of July, we started our Leadership & Entrepreneurship summer classes for 2023 with  about 30 students in attendance.  As usual, the kids learned the meaning of the word 'Entrepreneur' and the mindset of an Entrepreneur using our all popular acronym E.N.T.R.E.P.R.E.N.E.U.R. We also delved into some leadership tips by analysing and learning from the ants - how they have the following skills such as: Self Management Skills Time Management Skills Organisational Skills Social Skills Stress Management Skills On Tuesday , the kids were taught how to find a business idea for the summer and were put into randomized groups to come up with a business idea together. This was after watching videos of some other successful kidpreneurs and learning from their business stories.  On Wednesday the kids learned about the principle of doing market research to know the want

It's been a while! Yesterday,  we held our first book reading and activity session for kids. It was half-term for many of the kids in the UK and a great opportunity to get them off their gadgets for a one-hour productive session. We read the stories of 2 Nigerian entrepreneurs - Linda Ikeji and Bayo Omoboriowo whose hobbies turned into businesses and brought them fortune. The former being one of the highest paid bloggers in Nigeria and the latter, the first personal photographer to the Federal republic of Nigeria and the State house.  It was a read-along session with about 30 kids in attendance. Some keys lessons were learned such as: Mind your hobbies, they could become a source of income A man who is diligent in his business would definitely stand before kings and people of importance. Hard work indeed pays off. Determination, discipline and dedication are key to success  Follow your passion because profit follows passion  Some new words were also learnt such as: Blogging -  Blo

  Hey! We're back again! Everything that has a beginning surely has an end! We had a beautiful autumn term with clubs running in a couple of schools. We had a fine line up of exciting businesses this term ranging from SY Ice Donuts, Charlie's Lemonade, Simi's Art and Crafts, Meerab's Face painting, BK Candy and Luke's Cakes and Shakes amongst others. They also took time to design their posters for their stands. Above all, they made some good money buying and selling to each other including their teachers! Give your eyes some pleasure viewing what these kids have done... Then view their very fabulous stands.... And then some were awarded our 'Kids can entrepreneur' books for their diligence and hard work! Thanks for your time. Hoping you stop by again to see more of our budding kidpreneurs' projects! See you again! Until then, have yourself a very Merry Christmas! Yours in inspiring entrepreneurial excellence... Yejide Akiode