Research reveals that almost half of 8-11 year olds own a mobile phone, but only 15% of them are responsible for paying the bill.*

Use of mobile phones provides a real life context for helping children understand money matters and develop their financial skills for life.

pfeg (Personal Finance Education Group) has worked with eight primary schools to develop new and innovative teaching practices that would help children aged 9-11 make a connection between using the phone and paying the bill.

This resource pack records their experiences and offers schemes of work, lesson plans, PowerPoint guides to lessons, activities and examples of pupils' work to give you ideas to plan and teach personal finance around mobile phones - and it's free!

Simply click here to download a copy.
N.B.: The resource is a .zip archive. Please 'Save' the file to your computer, then right-click it and select 'Extract All...'. This will make sure that all links to external documents that are included with the resource work correctly.

* Source: Ofcom, Media Literacy Audit, Report on media literacy among young people, May 2006.

Alternatively, you can request the free CD ROM - email info@pfeg.org or call 020 7330 9470.

This handbook is designed to help you develop financial capability in all your pupils by supporting you in establishing a coherent, progressive personal finance education programme in your primary school.

It will help you develop a strategic approach to planning and teaching personal finance within the existing curriculum rather than increasing the pressure by making it a new subject.

The handbook is specifically intended as a comprehensive starting point for the development of personal finance education at Key Stage 2, and offers a range of useful information and resources. The information can be adapted to provide a whole-school approach to financial capability and, although aimed at Key Stage 2, in some sections, reference is also made to financial capability for foundation and Key Stage 1 pupils.

This resource enables primary schools to raise awareness of financial capability through a focused period of personal finance and cross curricular activities throughout the school.

There is a teachers' pack, as well as lots of other materials which introduce the principles of financial capability teaching and provide activities for classroom use. PowerPoint presentations introduce the purpose of a Money Week to staff, governors and parents.

Click here for more details, and to download or order the resource.