UAE’s Leading Entrepreneurs Headline Panel Discussion At The Arcadia School
The discussion is part of the School’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence programme to motivate children to work towards career achievement from a young age.
Dubai, UAE – The Arcadia School (Arcadia), one of the finest British curriculum schools in the UAE, as part of its Children’s Entrepreneur Workshop hosted four leading entrepreneurs at the school in Jumeirah Village Triangle on 22nd April 2017.
Nisreen Shocair, President, Virgin Megastore – ME, Nilesh Ved, Chairman, Apparel Group, Thomas Lundgren, Founder & CEO, THE One and Walid Hajj, Chairman, Cravia Group were the esteemed panellists for a discussion on “Can we teach Entrepreneurship?.” David Harkin, the CEO of the UK-based 7billionideas, served as the moderator.
The session, which was exclusively for parents of the participating children, triggered a dialogue on the need for inculcating entrepreneurial spirit in children from a young age. It was in step with Arcadia’s unique Entrepreneur-in-Residence programme that gives children an opportunity to learn from seasoned entrepreneurs and collaborate with experts to bring their ideas to life.
David Harkin, Arcadia’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence, adds, “It is very important that parents are in sync with the objectives of this programme and understand the value it brings to their children. We addressed the most basic yet crucial question on entrepreneurship at this workshop so as to enable parents to formulate their own opinion and play their part in guiding their children to success.”
“Following a very successful first edition of the Children’s Entrepreneur Workshop held in January earlier this year, this second edition featured several activities that were designed to develop teamwork, presentation skills, public speaking and listening skills by combining idea generation and development.
About The Arcadia School
The Arcadia School, located in Dubai’s Jumeirah Village Triangle, offers the National Curriculum for England to students studying from the Early Years Foundation Stage (FS1) to Key Stage 2 (Year 6). The community-focused school opened in August 2016 and aspires to be one of the leading British primary schools in the world by instilling into students a lifelong passion for learning, and by nurturing innovation and the pursuit of excellence amongst the teaching staff.
The Arcadia School is the first in a series of community-based schools delivering the vision of Mohan Valrani and the Al Shirawi Group. As the Chairman of the school, Valrani is an avid believer in providing the very best education for future generations.
Believing that a school’s greatest asset is its teachers, the group is building The Arcadia House, a dedicated accommodation facility within JVT for school staff. By offering the enhanced benefit of quality housing, the school is investing fully in its teachers’ happiness and wellbeing thereby encouraging them to aspire to excellence within the classroom.
The curriculum at the school is backed up by the Talk for Writing program from the UK. Talk for Writing enables children to imitate the key language they need for a particular topic orally before they try reading and analysing it.
Future Dubai-based schools for Arcadia Group include The Arcadia Senior School, also in Jumeirah Village Triangle; and The Arcadia Primary and Secondary School in Jebel Ali.
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