Heathcote Secondary School Pupils Open Their Own Bank

Natwest Bank has helped studentss at Heathcote School to set up a bank in the school to help them understand the basics of running a bank account and managing their money. It forms part of NatWest’s MoneySense for Schools programme, the largest financial education programme in the UK.

Mr Brooks said: “The students are really excited about this venture. It’s very important that they gain basic money management and enterprise skills and setting up, running and using their own Bank is an extremely practical and fun way of doing this and brings alive what happens in real life. We would like to thank the Natwest team for helping make this happen.”

The School bank is now open every Wednesday lunch time for depositing money, opening new accounts and other general enquires.