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Savings & Lifeskills

A really useful resource for teachers, pupils and parents which contains useful fact sheets, a glossary and pupil work sheets that help to address many of the financial capabilty topics for KS3 and KS4. Pupils will particularly enjoy the interactive game – Money Matrix and there are also practical activities for students to complete.

An excellent financial educational resource, well linked to areas of the curriculum, e.g. PSHE Education, Careers and Work Related Learning and Mathematics. The online games would work well on an Interactive whiteboard with the class divided into teams. The fact sheets and worksheets allow the teacher to select topics to support the programme they will be working on. The programme contains some very good sessions for use in Maths lessons.

COST FREE
FORMAT Website, Download, Interactive whiteboard
PUBLISHED07/11
PHOTOCOPIABLE Yes

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Suitability

Age range

12 - 16 year olds
Key stages 3 & 4 in England
Key stages 3 & 4 in Northern Ireland
Year groups S1, S2, S3 & S4 in Scotland
Key stages 3 & 4 in Wales

Secondary Key Concepts

Career (PSHE Education EWBFC 1.1)
Capability (PSHE Education EWBFC 1.2)
Risk (PSHE Education EWBFC/PWB 1.3)
Economic understanding (PSHE Education EWBFC 1.4)
Rights and responsibilities (Citizenship 1.2)

Secondary Key Processes

Financial capability (PSHE Education EWBFC 2.4)

Secondary Range and Content

Knowing about a range of economic and business terms including the connections between markets, competition, price and profit (PSHE Education EWBFC 3)
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)
Risk and reward (PSHE Education EWBFC 3)
How money can make money through savings, investment and trade (PSHE Education EWBFC 3)
Calculations and manipulations with real numbers (Mathematics Number and Algebra 3.1)
The economy in relation to citizenship, including decisions about the collection and allocation of public money (Citizenship 3)
The rights and responsibilities of consumers, employers and employees (Citizenship 3)
The challenges facing the global community, including international disagreements and conflict, and debates about inequalities, sustainability and use of the world's resources. (Citizenship 3)

Origin of resource

This resource was produced in England and meets the requirements of the English curriculum. All Quality Mark resources are designed for use across all UK countries, although they may be more suited to the country where the resource was produced and as such may need some adaptation.

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Assessor's comments

A really useful resource for teachers that certainly gives them a way in to developing focussed discussion on a whole range of financial capability topics, this website manages to at least touch on if not completely fulfill the majority of learning outcomes for KS3 and KS4. It’s a very good starting point and the interactive game will engage the majority of students well. The information given on the fact sheets and glossary is concise and useful for students, teachers and parents.

A very good online resource for personal finance, which will not act as a course as such, but will provide a vehicle at either the beginning or end of such a course. However, the fact sheets and worksheets are well signposted and could be selectively used in any financial education course or programme.

The online games are excellent and can be used individually by students or as team games with the use of an interactive whiteboard. The glossaries provided will prove to be very useful.

What is particularly good about the resource is the link to Mathematics teaching. The Money Maths worksheets (e.g. percentages, compound interest) will particularly be of use in maths lessons and in particular in delivering courses such as AQA’s FSMQ Free Standing Maths Qualification – (Money Management) and I suspect also in the forthcoming functional maths for life.