If you are working to improve young people’s understanding of money, high quality resources are a great place to start. Below you will find tools and Quality Mark resources produced by us and the organisations we support that can be used by educators in formal and non-formal settings, parents/carers and children and young people themselves.
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An online financial education teaching and learning tool. Money and Me consists of 12 lessons with the aim of teaching young people about the economy and enabling them to have the skills and knowledge to manage their money with confidence.
7 – 16 Quality Mark
Moneyready is an online course, differentiated for Key Stages 2, 3 and 4, which provides a range of modules to develop attitudes to, skills for, and knowledge of personal finance. The resource includes a dashboard for teachers/parents for enable tracking of student’s progress. Moneyready is free for UK schools. Email: [email protected] to confirm the name of your school and get started.
11 – 16 Quality Mark
The econoME programme gives young people greater economic and financial awareness, equipping them with the skills to make more informed decisions about personal financial choices. An additional 4th lesson was added in May 2020.
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All My Money Week Resources back to 2014 are now available for download from our My Money Week Resource Hub.
14 – 17 Quality Mark
Martin Lewis: Student Loans Decoded is a groundbreaking video guide to help pupils understand the English student finance system and the real impact of higher education on both students' and parents' pockets. It comes with a teacher guide with activity plans for each chapter and has received the Young Money Financial Education Quality Mark. The video chapters cover:
11 – 16 Quality Mark
7 – 11 Quality Mark
The resource includes lecture-style presentation slides with key information on different aspects of financial education, followed by teacher and pupil discussions and debates and encourages independent research by pupils. It includes cross-curricular topics such the history and geography of bank notes and provides guidance about spending, budgeting and debt. It comprises of a teacher manual including pupil handouts and homework tasks and a separate pupil-facing PowerPoint presentation with facilitator notes.
11 – 19 Quality Mark
With the support of Leicester City Council, we've refreshed Developing Financial Futures. The resource has been developed to support the delivery of financial education to vulnerable young people and be flexible and adaptable to different settings.
4 – 19 Quality Mark
With the support of Leicester City Council, we've developed a set of resources to support a 90-minute workshop, designed to help families explore money learning in the home. The workshop focuses on helping families explore money learning together. Parents/carers will discover ways to include their children in everyday discussions and actions related to money thereby improving both their children's financial capability and in turn, their own too. The content is adaptable for parents/carers with children of any age and contains activities that are easily deliverable by non-educators and non-financial education experts.