PUPILS at St Serf's Primary learned about a range of professions and picked up entrepreneurial skills during World of Work and Money Month.

The youngsters investigated many different industries, welcomed visitors and were inspired to dream big, work hard and think about their futures.

As part of the Grow a Fiver project, each class was given £5 to buy items with the aim of making a profit during the school's enterprise fayre.

All children took part in cooperative learning experiences – some organised a Burns Supper, while others took part in Apprentice-style challenges or did mock interviews.

Those in P3-P7 took part in a Dragons Den set-up and were tasked with coming up with a new invention that would "change the world".

And as part of the project, St Serf's also hosted its own careers fayre which saw a variety of visitors speaking to youngsters about their work.

There was also a special focus on money and pupils have been practising buying and selling in real and imagined environments.

Older classes at the Tullibody school also learned about abstract money in bank accounts, paying online and using debit and credit cards.

St Serf's also has a team of young people who are part of the Developing the Young Workforce Team and, in September, pupils applied for jobs around the school and those successful went for interviews.

They took on roles as technicians, librarians, tour guides, playground assistants, along with being on the catering and press teams.

As part of the work and money event, they received extra special training to help them with the skills they need to do the job.

This has included attending a coding club, taking a trip to Alloa's library, visiting the Smith Institute in Stirling and dropping in on the Ladybird Cafe.