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Primary school pupils use debit cards during Money Week

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Mascot Bas debit card walks through a school corridor: a person in a large blue debit card costume with a smiling face, white gloves and blue shoes, part of the educational campaign Bank for the Classroom.

The fourth edition of Money Week (in Dutch)(opens in new window) was officially opened on Monday 10 March by Queen Máxima and five primary schools. The schools presented projects to raise money for an event or an expensive purchase. It soon became clear that primary school pupils also associate debit cards and online banking with secure and easy payments. Debit cards and mobile banking apps featured prominently in the schools’ presentations and in a musical performance by youth theatre duo Mike-E & Spike-Y.

Bas Bankpas

Money Week includes 5,000 guest lessons at primary schools on how to manage money. Around 4,000 of these are provided through the Dutch Banking Association’s Bank voor de Klas programme (in Dutch)(opens in new window) for pupils in the final three years of primary education. State Secretary for Education Sander Dekker launched Bank voor de Klas on Monday afternoon at the Polsstok, Bijlmerhorst and As-Soeffah primary schools in Amsterdam-Zuidoost.

Hundreds of bank employees teach the Bank voor de Klas lessons using the Cash Quiz. The programme’s mascot is Bas Bankpas. Every primary school pupil who takes a Cash Quiz lesson receives a Bas Bankpas card with a unique personal code. They can use the code to visit ten participating museums free of charge or at a discount.

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