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It's Your Decision

A pack of five colourful, humourous ‘stories’ in the form of packs of cards that enable pupils to discuss and debate financial choices and develop understanding of the skills involved in making financial decisions. Detailed teachers notes are also included.

COST £35.50 per pack
DURATIONApproximately 12 hours of lessons
PUBLISHED09/07
PHOTOCOPIABLE Yes

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Carol Carlisle

Phone: 07703 475 029
Email: Email them carlisc@broughtonhall.com
Address: Broughton Hall High School Yew Tree Lane Liverpool
L12 9HJ

ENGLAND
NORTHERN IRELAND
WALES
SCOTLAND

ENGLAND

Suitability

Suitable for key stages 2, 3 & 4
Suitable for year groups 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11
Suitable for 7 - 16 year olds

Primary outcomes

Secondary Key Concepts

Capability (PSHE Education EWBFC 1.2)
Risk (PSHE Education EWBFC/PWB 1.3)
Personal identities (PSHE Education PWB 1.1)
Relationships (PSHE Education PWB 1.4)
Competence (Mathematics 1.1)
Rights and responsibilities (Citizenship 1.2)

Secondary Key Processes

Career (PSHE Education EWBFC 1.1)
Exploration (PSHE Education EWBFC 2.2)
Financial capability (PSHE Education EWBFC 2.4)
Critical reflection (PSHE Education PWB 2.1)
Decision-making and managing risk (PSHE Education PWB 2.2)
Developing relationships and working with others (PSHE Education PWB 2.3)
Representing (Mathematics 2.1)
Analysing (Mathematics 2.2)

Secondary Range and Content

Personal budgeting (PSHE Education EWBFC 3)
Wages(PSHE Education EWBFC 3)
Taxes(PSHE Education EWBFC 3)
Money management (PSHE Education EWBFC 3)
Credit and/or debt (PSHE Education EWBFC 3)
Knowing about a range of financial products and services (PSHE Education EWBFC 3)
How money can make money through savings, investment and trade (PSHE Education EWBFC 3)
Social and moral dilemmas about the use of money (PSHE Education EWBFC 3)
The effect of diverse and conflicting values on individuals, families and communities and ways of responding to them (PSHE Education PWB 3)
The roles and responsibilities of parents, carers, children and other family members (PSHE Education PWB 3)
Parenting skills and qualities and their central importance to family life (PSHE Education PWB 3)
Calculations and manipulations with real numbers (Mathematics Number and Algebra 3.1)
Experimental and theoretical probabilities of single and combined events (Mathematics Statistics 3.3)
The rights and responsibilities of consumers, employers and employees (Citizenship 3)

NORTHERN IRELAND

Suitability

Suitable for key stages 1, 2, 3 & 4
Suitable for year groups 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12
Suitable for 7 - 16 year olds

WALES

Suitability

Suitable for key stages 2, 3 & 4
Suitable for year groups 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11
Suitable for 7 - 16 year olds

SCOTLAND

Suitability

Suitable for year groups P3, P4, P5, P6, P7, S1, S2, S3 & S4
Suitable for 7 - 16 year olds

Suitable for gifted and talented

With differentiation by outcome as a consideration, gifted and talented students could use these cards to good effect and with imagination, could come up with interesting solutions.

Suitable for special educational needs

The card format would be popular with SEN students and the use of the cards in mixed ability groups would enable the cards to be used. A slightly more structured approach might be useful with SEN students. The teachers’ guide places the card sets in order of ‘difficulty’.

Assessor's comments

A unique resource for introducing students to the ideas of personal finance, e.g. saving, spending, budgeting whilst also introducing them to mathematical concepts in a entertaining and applied way. Students have to solve financial problems for the Marks family, working in groups and using packs of colourful and attractive cards containing all the information they need in order to come up with a solution to problems which range from Debbi buying a pair of jeans to the family purchasing a new car. For a hands-on classroom tool which uses a kinaesthetic approach and which will appeal across key stages and ability groups, a few sets of these packs would benefit any school’s library of personal financial education resources.

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