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School award for most innovative approach to PFE
2010
Winner
Sgoil a’ Bhac, Western Isles
In collaboration with Learning and Teaching Scotland, Sgoil a’ Bhac Primary 7 and Secondary 1 Gaelic Medium Education pupils produced a DVD of five scenarios highlighting aspects of personal finance relevant to their age. The DVD is to be distributed nationally to all Gaelic Medium Schools, both primary and secondary, as a teaching tool for [...]
Runners up
West Hill School, Tameside
West Hill School in Tameside ran an innovative music industry-themed enterprise day March 2009, involving 120 pupils from nine secondary schools. Pupils worked in teams of ten to complete a series of challenges, including designing and costing a publicity strategy for a concert using real market values, selecting a loan deal and calculating APRs using [...]
New Line Learning Academy, Kent
New Line Learning Academy is situated in an area recognised as having significant levels of deprivation across a broad range of issues. Their PFE project focuses on increasing the financial competencies and awareness of families. This is done by engaging school children in basic skill acquisition and using them as the channel to raise awareness [...]
2009
Winner
Meadowhead School, Sheffield
A member of staff with responsibility for financial capability at Meadowhead School decided there was a need to bring PFE in the school to life, and developed a dice and cards game and accompanying lesson and PowerPoint presentation designed to illustrate different savings and investment possibilities to year 10 students, making it relevant, fun and [...]
Runners up
Westbrook Hay, Hemel Hempstead
To help raise awareness of and create a buzz around personal finance among students, Peter Makower, a teacher at Westbrook Hay School created an online stocks and shares scheme and accompanying teaching resources, and encouraged 12 other schools to compete. The scheme enables students to get a better feel for the real-time gains and losses [...]
Castle Rock High School, Leicestershire
Students in year 8 at Castle Rock High School are introduced to the concepts of budgeting by pricing up a weekly shopping basket and assessing the quality of different goods. This is tied in with the concept of fair trade, which is explored in Citizenship lessons, helping students to make better informed consumer decisions. A [...]
2008
Winner
Warden Park School, Cuckfield, West Sussex
Miss Christine Mingay, a new member of staff at Warden Park School, an 11-16 comprehensive school in West Sussex, recognised a particular need to focus on personal finance education and decided to introduce and run a whole-school financial literacy week that turned out to be a huge success for both students and teachers.
During financial literacy [...]
Runners up
Musselburgh Grammar School, Edinburgh
Musselburgh Grammar School has developed a fun and interactive approach to PFE, focusing on the realities of managing personal finances for families. Students are given ‘prop bags‘ which contain information on managing the budget of their ‘virtual family‘, in a ‘Game of Life’-style approach, that takes them right the way through to their ‘virtual retirement’.
The [...]
The St Guthlac School, Lincolnshire
A full set of detailed lesson plans was submitted as evidence of The St Guthlac School’s thorough and engaging approach to PFE.
A key feature of the programme was a focus on group discussion, and on making financial decisions together, in order to simulate situations such as shared accommodation in the future. It also addressed other [...]
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