1. Managing money
What coins and notes do we use?
Age: 5-8
Learn about coins and notes, their values and how they are used, including how to calculate change.
Contained in the resources:
- Instructional learning guide
- Coins and notes infographic
- What’s that coin? activity sheet
- Always check your change infographic
- What coins and notes do we use? presentation
How do I plan a simple budget?
Age: 8-12
Learn all about ‘budgeting’, including how to create a budget and how key financial documents can be used to monitor income and expenses.
Contained in the resources:
- Instructional learning guide
- How do I plan a simple budget? presentation
- Bank statements activity sheet
How do I stay in control of my money?
Age: 12-16
Explore how pressures (e.g. family, friends, advertisements) can affect how we spend our money, and how our spending choices may affect others.
Contained in the resources:
- Instructional learning guide
- How financial choices affect others activity sheet
- How do I stay in control of my money? presentation
2. Making choices
Why is it important to save money?
Age: 5-8
Learn about the concept of saving money for later, reasons for saving, and how it might make you feel, and why saving can be important.
Contained in the resources:
- Instructional learning guide
- What should they do? activity sheet
- Spend or save? poster infographic
- Why is it important to save money? presentation
- Rainy-day saving activity sheet
How can I pay for things?
Age: 8-12
Learn about payment methods including cash, cheques, credit and debit cards as well as online payments and the best way to pay in different situations.
Contained in the resources:
- Instructional learning guide
- How can I pay for things? presentation
- Different ways to pay infographic
- Debit and credit cards activity sheet
How will my education and job choices affect my finances?
Age: 16-18
Learn about the relationship between education, training, jobs and income and how these link to your life goals.
Contained in the resources:
- Instructional learning guide
- How will my education and job choices affect my finances? presentation
- My financial plan activity sheet
3. Keeping your money safe
Where can I keep my money safe?
Age: 5-8
Learn about the different choices involved in keeping money safe, safe places to keep money and the consequences of losing money.
Contained in the resources:
- Instructional learning guide
- Feelings about lost or stolen money pupil infographic
- Safe places to keep money poster infographic
- Where can I keep my money safe? presentation
- Where can I keep my money safe? activity sheet
How can I keep my money safe?
Age: 8-12
Learn about ways to keep money safe, the risks associated with spending online and how to avoid scams.
Contained in the resources:
- Instructional learning guide
- How can I keep my money safe? presentation
- How can I keep my money safe? activity sheet
- Money mules fact sheet
- Money mules activity sheet
4. Spending wisely
What are needs and wants?
Age: 5-8
Explore needs and wants, the difference between them and how we prioritise the things we buy.
Contained in the resources:
- Instructional learning guide
- What are needs and wants? presentation
- Things we need and things we want activity sheet
Enterprise: Raising money for charity
Age: 8-12
Learn about fundraising for charity, the reasons why people raise money, as well as how to plan and budget your own event.
Contained in the resources:
- Instructional learning guide
- Raising money for charity presentation
- Fundraising planner activity sheet
5. Remote workshops
Remote workshop: How we use money
Age: 5-8
Explore the choices about what to do with money - it can be spent, saved or donated - and the difference between needs and wants.
Contained in the resources:
- Instructional learning guide
- How we use money presentation
- Spending money on a pet activity sheet
- Money poem activity sheet
- Pupil certificates
Remote workshop: Save our pennies, save our planet
Age: 8-12
Learn about the concept of saving money through choosing more environmentally friendly behaviours and explore daily activities that use a lot of energy.
Contained in the resources:
- Instructional learning guide
- Save our pennies, save our planet presentation
- Save our pennies, save our planet information sheet
- Family savings challenge activity sheet
- Research activity sheet
