When the Kindergarten students entered the school’s AV Room, they were taken by surprise! They saw their teachers dressed in formal pants, shirts, and neck ties and with a tint of sternness on their faces. The class desks were turned into counters with windows, few bundles of currency were lying on the desks, payslips, cheque books and an almost a real ATM!

To acquaint the students with the concept of banking, their teachers gave them a practical demonstration of how a bank operates. They prepared an ambience of a bank with an entrance made of cardboard and chart paper that read ‘GIIS (Global Indian International School) BANK’. The teachers demonstrated the process of depositing and withdrawing money using real currency. They later invited students to do a few transactions which thrilled them beyond limits.

The star attraction however was the ATM. The teachers put their creativity beyond expectation to give the students a virtual experience of withdrawing money from an ATM. They used an iPad as the ATM screen, created an opening to insert debit cards, and also a cutout from where the cash can be collected. The students found this very interesting and puzzling because this ATM was giving out cash in real when the debit card was inserted.

How? Well, one of the pre-primary teachers was sitting behind the ATM and executing every transaction. Also, another teacher was giving warning if a wrong PIN was entered!

Thus, the teachers created this bank which gave the students practical understanding of a bank. And, every student made a transaction using a cheque book, payslip, real currency, and the use of debit card. The students of K1 and K2 have surely picked up quite efficiently the basics of banking.

Kudos to the teachers for their ensued enthusiasm to thrive for creativity.