A secondary school in Yorkshire have adapted the careers in sport and luxury and necessity lesson plans from the Activity Bank to link with the World Cup.

 

My Money Week 2011 took place from 27 June to 3 July. pfeg consultants worked on projects up and down the country, with school, local authorities and other organisations to deliver personal finance education in a fun, exciting and relevant way.

North

  • Lockwood Primary School in Redcar and Cleveland run a successful peer mentoring programme - the Year 6 and Year 5 pupils mentor the Year 4 and Year 3 pupils about personal finance throughout the school year.
  • My Money Centre of Excellence Southlands High School in Chorley also run a peer mentoring scheme training Year 10s to provide mentoring to Year 5 and Year 6 pupils from their feeder primary schools.
  • Over 100 pupils in St Helens designed their currencies for the future in an inter-school competition; they will also be entering their designs in the My Money National Schools Competition.
  • Highfield School in Wakefield and Ravenshall School in Dewsbury worked together over a period of five weeks to share ideas and good practice around personal finance education in a special education needs context.
  • Glasshouses Community Primary School in the rural Yorkshire Dales, an area where groceries are expensive and travel costs are high, focused their My Money Week activity on developing ways to reduce the cost of living but sustain the local economy.

Central

  • Two schools in the East Midlands took part in a Britain’s Got Functional Skills day interactive day using the pfeg ‘Let’s Get Functional’ resource for 60 Year 10 pupils, working in groups of 4. The aim is to increase their financial capability as well as developing their functional and communication skills.
  • Students, members of staff and parents at The Deepings School in Lincolnshire worked in teams of two to answer as many questions as they could about money in 50 minutes in the My Money Race Against Time. Information Boards about different aspects of money and personal finance were distributed around the school hall. Teams were given a clipboard and a starting time and set off on their search for the answers and late returners suffered a time penalty!

South

  • A practical earning activity took place at Granta School in Cambridgeshire where pupils and staff from Granta and visiting special schools undertook jobs around the school to earn some money which they could then choose spend at the school market or invest at the school bank which offered interest to savers.
  • Southend-on-Sea local authority concluded a weeklong family learning around food and financial capability project with a session from a pfeg Consultant on how to cook economically and well.
  • Staffordshire County Council, a Centre of Excellence, worked with the Aspire Housing Education Project at four schools and colleges in the area to look at the costs involved when living independently.
  • Primary school children in Bexley looked into the central and more peripheral costs of mounting the Olympic Games as well the personal costs to individuals if they were to travel to London for the events.
  • Year 6 children at Chase Lane Primary School also looked at the financial side of careers and the world of work.
  • Sixth form students in Kent attended the Young Person’s Money Box Live conference focusing on the transition from sixth form/college with the aim of increasing awareness of the financial implications of gaining independence and taking more responsibility for their own personal finances.
  • The pfeg consultant in the consultant in the South East worked with Kent Healthy Schools to develop and deliver ‘Train the Trainer’ sessions to Healthy Schools advisors in East Kent on the ‘Price of Parenting’ resource combining personal finance education with sex and relationships education.
  • The Student Council and members of staff at Wootton Bassett School, a My Money Centre of Excellence, worked with a pfeg consultant to establish what pupils think is good about the personal finance education in place already and they would like more of. The Careers and Enterprise Coordinators reviewed and updated financial education in school and two teachers developed a new Enterprise challenge for Year 7 based on designing and planting a daffodil garden.


Success stories

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