Hear from the pupils
The young people featured in the following clips all took part in Money on our Minds. They talk candidly about their experiences of money, personal finance education in schools and how it can be improved. Their revealing and sometimes surprising comments illuminate the main findings from the main report (see below to order or download) and together they demonstrate why it’s important not to make assumptions about what young people know and think about money, and what they’re interested in learning about and why. We also hear from a teacher and school advisers about why they got involved and the impact of the consultation.
Why Money on our minds?
Money on our Minds was a south east regional student consultation delivered through a partnership between pfeg south east and healthy schools south east. Here a teacher, school adviser and pfeg’s healthy schools partner explain why it’s important to ask young people their views on financial education and why they got involved in the regional project.
Hear from the team: 'Why Money on our minds?'
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Pocket money and earning money
It’s important to establish the right starting point for financial education, and this will differ between schools and groups of students. All young people have different levels of understanding about personal finance, driven by their experiences at home with parents or carers, and the role it plays in their individual lives.
Money on our Minds found that young people have more interaction with money than adults perhaps give them credit for. It’s not something they will just experience when they’re adults - it’s a big part of their lives right now.
Here the students tell us about their experiences of money, and their attitudes towards pocket money, work, spending and saving, providing good starting points for classroom learning.
Hear from the pupils: 'Pocket money and earning money'
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