About WIGU
Mission Statement
WIGU’s mission is to extensively prepare school-aged children for adulthood by equipping them with the right set of habits and skills through the power of role-play.
Why do primary school students go to school? To prepare for adulthood? Then why aren’t they learning the most basic, important and necessary life skills they need as adults?
Why is there such a large emphasis on academics only? When there’s so much MORE to life!
“When I Grow Up…” is an annual program specifically designed for primary school children to learn real life skills, with 5% of all proceeds going straight back into your school and 10% of all proceeds going to the Starlight Children’s Foundation to ensure that all children have the opportunity to make their dreams come true.
WIGU provides a program that can be tailored to the needs of your school and compliment the work that teachers are already doing to prepare our children for adult life. The program also adopts a unique teaching method to ensure that:
- Students WILL enjoy it.
- Students WILL learn from it.
- Students WILL walk away more mature, more independent and more confident without even feeling that they’ve taken out the time to learn!
What are real life skills?
Life skills are those skills that are not career specific, not industry specific, but LIFE specific.
It is extremely important for primary kids to learn from an early age:
- How to carry themselves in public
- How to be financially stable
- How to form successful relationships
- How to handle life threatening situations
Money management, social etiquette and first aid procedures are just a few examples of what WIGU teaches within the fun and comprehensive program.
The fundamental idea of life skills training is to equip the children of today with a set of skills that they will definitely use in life. Habits – once formed are hard to change. So the idea of life skills training is to allow our kids to form good habits by following good examples from an early age.
Take a moment to think about it.
Ask yourself:
- What did you have trouble doing when you first came out of school?
- What did you wish you had learnt back in school that would’ve saved you headaches and troubles in your adult life?
- What could you have done better to maintain a good credit rating?
- What could you have done to be in a better financial situation today?
- How could you have avoided things that have gone wrong in your life?
Then take these answers and you’ve got what WIGU teaches to children at an early age.
