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""Will Jones' Space Adventures & The Money Formula"" is a fun, exciting, space adventure story for five to eight year old boys and girls. It is the first book, in a series of eight, to be released. At the weekends and during the school holidays, Will Jones works for a farmer on Ozimoth. From afar, on the planet of Spectron, in outer space, and through very powerful technology, the friendly King of Spectron is observing how Will works with his money. The King is intrigued by Will's money formula and wants to know more! Will and Ben are mysteriously abducted from Ozimoth and now find they are on their journey into far out reaching space and to a planet they know nothing about! The spaceship safely lands on Spectron and all of the travellers safely leave the spacecraft. During their visit, both boys make many new friends. However, little does anybody realise, that the planet is about to be invaded! The invasion is happening! Will suddenly realises and thinks, '...I have left my money in the place!' Will runs up long winding corridors of inner Spectron. He is trying not to be seen; he slowly sneaks up to the outer planet and is suddenly caught by a very large warring soldier from the planet of Grigan. Will is grabbed by the scruff of the neck and taken into the inner, royal chamber of the palace. By Will showing the warring Grigan Leader and the King of Spectron how he works his money formula a major intergalactic war is avoided.

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""Teaching money management in a fun and interesting way is a tall order. On the whole, most teachers do not feel they have the skills, knowledge or resources to tackle personal finance education. Can Will Jones help? Context, narrative and purpose are three essential ingredients to feed dialogue and discussion, and the Will Jones resources for primary schools mix all three in a dynamic way. Children join Will and Ben on a rich adventure set on the wealthy planet of Ozimoth, where they can find out more about how to manage money, and realise the importance of a money system, using a fictitious currency called Rupins. The story and play aim to get children thinking more carefully about what to do with their money and the life choices they can make. The charming narrative is well written: the story would work well as a class reader and the play could be staged as an assembly... The Rupins concept is a great place to start and children will enjoy the adventure..."" Source extracted: TES Times Education UK Supplement No 4714 8 December 2006

Teaching money management in a fun and interesting way is a tall order. On the whole, most teachers do not feel they have the skills, knowledge or resources to tackle personal finance education. Can Will Jones help? Context, narrative and purpose are three essential ingredients to feed dialogue and discussion, and the Will Jones resources for primary schools mix all three in a dynamic way. Children join Will and Ben on a rich adventure set on the wealthy planet of Ozimoth, where they can find out more about how to manage money, and realise the importance of a money system, using a fictitious currency called Rupins. The story and play aim to get children thinking more carefully about what to do with their money and the life choices they can make. The charming narrative is well written: the story would work well as a class reader and the play could be staged as an assembly... The Rupins concept is a great place to start and children will enjoy the adventure... Source extracted: TES Times Education UK Supplement No 4714 8 December 2006

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I am a professionally qualified teacher and through observation in the classroom and with my own bitter experiences of bankruptcy knew there had to be questions and answers to how people work and manage money their money. There also had to be a way that people could become financially self-sustainable for their future. After eleven years of research and investigation, I now know that education is the only way forward for both children and adults. Our children and grandchildren, at this time, are facing a 'cashless' society. The card currency is encroaching, and with possibly only 3 per cent of our national coins and notes left in circulation within the United Kingdom (research is showing that most transactions are now done through electronic transfer, direct debit or cheque). If this is true, the children of now and the adults of the future, may not have the choices, we currently have) of using cash, notes or plastic cards for their transactions for essential goods and services - they will simply have plastic cards and no choice of the currency they use. I have developed the Will Jones' series to allow children to learn about money systems and to raise their awareness to the possible outcomes to buying, selling, working for money, investing, saving and planning for the future, taxation and other outcomes that are associated with working and managing money. The books are written using the objectives of the national curriculum of England and Wales of the United Kingdom. Having said this, the books are designed to allow the child to build life-skills through excitement of the story and the fun learning they experience. Emma Selwood has said: This is a very well written book. I very much like the language the author uses. It's not too hard to understand and not too easy which would be boring. The book never gets dull, it is always exciting. I just want to turn the pages. I would recommend this book for ages 6-10 years. This is a very exciting, adventure book.' Emma Selwood Age 8. Each fun, adventure book in the series takes the child a little bit further into the knowledge of managing and working with money. The books are written and designed to allow the child, and adult of the future, to become financially self-sustainable. Each book written, but sold separately, has a supporting Resource Pack and Play.

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