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School award for best all-round approach to PFE
2010
Winner
Ridgeway High School, Wirral
At Ridgeway High School, every year group completes a scheme of work that highlights personal finance, enterprise or work. As a Business and Enterprise College the school is committed to providing students with the life skills they will need when they leave school.
A number of related annual and termly events are held at the [...]
Runners up
Ravenshall School, W.Yorkshire
Ravenshall School is a special school for students with complex needs. The Head and Senior Management team identified personal finance as a priority in their development plan and organised CPD for staff using pfeg consultants. All students have access to a varied and exciting PSHE curriculum which includes personal finance education and enterprise initiatives. Students [...]
Longdendale Community Language College, Tameside
Longdendale has taken a whole-school approach to improving the personal finance skills of its students and over the last 18 months has set up a PSHE curriculum in association with pfeg to cover a wide selection of topics for every Key Stage 3 and 4 student.
Students learn about budgeting, borrowing, saving, earnings and how banks [...]
2009
Winner
St John’s Wood Community School, Cheshire
St John’s Wood is a special school for 11-16 year old students with emotional and behavioural difficulties. The school has an innovative, on-going and sustainable approach to PFE, suited to the specific learning needs of their students. A variety of events and initiatives brought PFE to life for its students and helped to make sure [...]
Runners up
Trinity High School, Renfrewshire
Trinity High School’s approach to PFE is thoroughly embedded throughout all school years, starting with their entry into the school where they are invited to become members of the school credit union, run by senior students. This was set up in partnership with the Renfrewshire wide credit union (RWCU), who provide training in all areas [...]
Hedingham School, Essex
At Hedingham School, PFE is embedded in personal curriculum programmes across the school. These inclusive events for students of all abilities are part of personal social and health education (PSHE), careers education, work-related learning and enterprise education. Hedingham School’s PFE programme gives students opportunities to explore personal, business and some aspects of international finance. They [...]
2008
Winner
Holyhead School, Birmingham
Holyhead School places great emphasis on the financial well-being of every student, ensuring that their financial understanding and education begins before they arrive at the school, and continues throughout their school career. During Year 6 induction day School Banks are introduced, and the school then arranges for the students’ bank accounts to be ready when [...]
Runners up
Chichester High School for Boys, Chichester
Chichester High School for Boys’ approach included imaginative initiatives throughout the school, from a maths-based theatre show to a Year 10 ‘Money Matters’ whole day experience. PFE is addressed in tutor time, and student self-assessment and evaluation is an integral part of the programme.
The judges were impressed by this programme’s imaginative approach and the inclusion [...]
Abercorn Secondary, Glasgow
Abercorn Secondary demonstrated an all-round commitment to PFE involving students and parents. PFE at Abercorn is delivered through a number of initiatives, such as a Financial Education Day where both students and parents participate in financial workshops and drop-in advice sessions. Abercorn tries to involve relevant external agencies in these days, and previous involvement has [...]
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