Case studies
-
1. Case Study No. 30: A module in financial capability, Farnley Park High School, Leeds
Farnley Park made full use of the professional development support available through pfeg’s Excellence and Access project to build their confidence in delivering personal finance education, and to develop detailed schemes of work for Year 7.
- Age range
- 11 - 14 |
- Format
|
-
2. Case Study No. 26: St Mary's Roman Catholic Comprehensive School, Newcastle - Exploring economic diversity via The Paper Bag Game
St Mary’s School in Newcastle wanted to develop personal finance education through the citizenship programme in the school. The school has a strong tradition in social, ethical, moral and spiritual aspects of learning and development, and it was useful to consider ways in which personal finance education could be linked to these areas.
- Age range
- 11 - 14 |
- Format
- |
-
3. Case Study No. 24: St Francis Xavier School, Richmond, North Yorkshire - Linking personal finance education (pfe) to numeracy
This case study (8 pages) describes the experience of one school and their desire to introduce personal finance education into the curriculum through mathematics.
- Age range
- 14 - 16 |
- Format
- |
-
4. Case Study No. 17: Off-timetable day: the young person as a consumer
At one school in Trafford, Manchester, teachers were challenged not only by what content would be most stimulating and engaging for students, but how this could be approached when there was very limited space available on the timetable for citizenship and PSHE. Their chosen route was to devote a whole day of curriculum time to handling a range of financial issues. These ranged from consideration of personal financial management, to the impact of our financial decisions globally.
- Age range
- 14 - 16 |
- Format
- |
-
5. Case Study No. 14: A case study in providing enrichment activities in personal finance education for gifted and talented learners
The Excellence and Access project has explored, with teachers, a range of ways of providing for higher attaining students in the area of personal finance education. In doing so it has identified and used features that often characterise work with this group of young people.
- Age range
- 16 - 19 |
- Format
- |
-
6. Case Study No. 27: Tadcaster Grammar School, North Yorkshire: Linking personal finance education (pfe) to enterprise education
This case study (5 pages) describes one aspect of the way Tadcaster Grammar School planned for personal finance education with the introduction of a school bank. It shows how this could strengthen learning in business studies and mathematics, as well as develop key elements of personal financal learning. It describes the process for setting up a school bank, while covering the issues it is important to consider to ensure breadth of learning for students.
- Age range
- 11 - 14 |
- Format
- |
-
7. Case Study No. 31: A module in financial capability - Royds School, Leeds
Royds School made full use of the professional development support available through pfeg’s Excellence and Access project to build their confidence in delivering personal finance education (pfe) and to plan pfe modules to commence at the start of the new academic year.
- Age range
- 11 - 14 |
- Format
- |
-
8. Case Study No. 44: Developing resources to support learning in financial education at Queen's Park School. Lincolnshire
This case study, (8 pages) describes how a school catering for students with severe and multiple learning difficulties worked with pfeg to develop a teaching resource that would help them to reinforce their students’ skills in saving, spending and handling money. The case study describes how the school made the most of their involvement with pfeg by identifying which of their needs could best be served by utilising the range of skills on offer from their pfeg adviser.
- Age range
- 14 - 19 |
- Format
- |
-
9. Case Study No. 47: Working with parents and carers: financial responsibility: making personal choices at Needham Market Middle School, Suffolk
Needham Market is a middle school catering for students from students 9 – 13 years. As part of their involvement with the Excellence and Access project they wanted to involve parents and carers in the financial education of the students. They wanted to capitalise on the vast knowledge and experience other adults can bring to the classroom people on their doorstep.
- Age range
- 11 - 14 |
- Format
- |
-
10. Case Study No. 33: Developing awareness of community diversity within a special school: Sundridge ESBD School, Waterlooville, Hampshire
This short case study (4 pages) describes how the school made full use of the professional development support available through pfeg’s Excellence and Access project to build personal finance education into a learning programme while taking account of students’ own experiences. Some of the project activity can be viewed on the short video available for download below.
- Age range
- 11 - 16 |
- Format
- |
Find a case study
