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Kitty's Bicycle and Jennifer's Eggs

Two short, colourful story books about entrepreneurial sisters, accompanied by information and support for teachers and parents.

Kitty's Bicycle uses everyday childhood experiences to introduce children to the financial concepts of savings and interest.

Jennifer's Eggs follows Jennifer starting a small business selling surplus eggs from the family pet chickens. She saves the money for a new book but not everything goes quite to plan.

COST £5.49 and £6.50
FORMAT Download, Book
PUBLISHED10/10
PHOTOCOPIABLE No

SPONSORMALT Publishing

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Suitability

Age range

4 - 11 year olds
Key stages 1 & 2 in England
Key stages Foundation, 1 & 2 in Northern Ireland
Year groups P1, P2, P3, P4, P5 & P6 in Scotland
Key stages 1 & 2 in Wales

Primary outcomes

Origin of resource

This resource was produced in England and meets the requirements of the English curriculum. All Quality Mark resources are designed for use across all UK countries, although they may be more suited to the country where the resource was produced and as such may need some adaptation.

Relevant subjects

Relevant topics

Suitable for gifted and talented

There are opportunities for pupils to read the stories aloud or use the themes within drama lessons.

The resources could be used with more able Key Stage 1 pupils.

Suitable for special educational needs

The stories can be read to the class by the teacher or read by the pupils with teacher support. The activities, teacher-led can be carried out with children of all abilities.

The resources could be used with Key Stage 3 SEN pupils.

Assessor's comments

These excellent little stories will entertain children nicely, but further, they offer springboards to a number of activities which will stretch right across the primary curriculum.
After reading ‘Jennifer’s Eggs’ children can be encouraged to write about and discuss what they have learnt and illustrate their work, to investigate such financial concepts as adding up money, how to keep it safe and how to spend it. It will even encourage them to set up their own mini-enterprise ventures. There are lots of opportunities for useful discussions about money. In Science, they can talk about value for money compared to the quality differences between free range and battery eggs.
After reading ‘Kitty’s Bicycle’ children can be encouraged to write about and discuss what they have learnt and illustrate their work, to investigate such financial concepts as savings, interest and bank accounts. Coin recognition and adding up money forms a strong element within the resource.
Using just one of these books, the primary curriculum could be filled for a week, or even longer.
A very good resource for Citizenship, given the suggested follow-up discussions on financial issues such as appropriate times to buy, reduced prices, last year’s fashions being cheaper, bargaining, and borrowing.