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2010
Winner
Miss Emma Williams, The Blyth School Community College, Northumberland
Emma has used PFE to bring Maths to life for a range of pupils in the Blyth School and its feeder schools. In addition to incorporating PFE into Maths lessons Emma has also provided a framework for the PSHE team to deliver lessons on personal finance. In Maths she has used PFE to deliver a [...]
Runners up
Mr Jonathan Shields, Plymouth College, Devon
Jonathan Shields has shown a commitment to the teaching and learning of PFE by raising its profile not only within the school, but by gaining local and national recognition as well. After taking and passing the Life and Pensions certificate with the Chartered Insurance Institute, he designed and taught a PFE course, passing on his [...]
Marianne Flanagan, Dalrymple Primary School, East Ayrshire
Marianne Flanagan’s involvement in PFE began when she volunteered to become part of a working group to devise a financial education resource pack to be distributed within every school in East Ayrshire. She has since delivered several twilight CPD sessions for schools on how to introduce financial education effectively to the classroom. She has embedded [...]
2009
Winner
Robert Johnson, Wilmslow High School, Cheshire
Robert Johnson, a newly qualified teacher and new member of staff at Wilmslow High School, impressed his colleagues by taking ownership of the development of financial awareness and capability in the school, working closely with the Maths and PSHE teams to investigate the school’s current PFE provision, and move it forward. He led the development [...]
Runners up
Peter Makower, Westbrook Hay School, Hemel Hempstead
With his online stocks and shares scheme, Peter Makower, Head of Mathematics at Westbrook Hay School, succeeded in bringing the world of finance to life for students and teachers not only at his own school, but in 11 other schools. The scheme introduces core aspects of PFE in a stimulating, challenging and fun environment. Peter [...]
Claire Todd-O’Neill, Seaham School, County Durham
Claire Todd-O’Neill was nominated by her colleague in recognition of her work to improve the provision of financial awareness in the school. This involved developing a series of relevant and engaging PFE lessons to be delivered through Maths and Personal and Social Education. She also developed and led a number of departmental workshops to train [...]
2008
Winner
Miss Christine Mingay, Warden Park School
Such was the impact of Miss Christine Mingay’s drive and commitment to PFE at Warden Park School, demonstrated by her introduction of financial literacy week, that she was nominated by a colleague for the Teacher award, and went on to win Warden Park School its second award (Warden Park School was the overall winner in [...]
Runners up
Ms Sue Pearson, St Crispin’s School
Ms Sue Pearson showed a commitment to the teaching of PFE by conducting a student survey of the current programme, and used the results to develop a new financial awareness unit that included a year 11 ‘Focus Day’ which will use specialist staff to deliver sessions on loans, shares and mortgages, and that will incorporate [...]
Mr John Mills, Homewood School and 6th Form Centre
Mr John Mills was nominated by the principal Maths teacher, Mr Rob Gaygan, for his commitment to the teaching of PFE and ensuring its relevance to the students. Praise received from parents for his work is further testament to his impact.
The judges said: “Mr Mills introduced a coherent and comprehensive approach that involved parental support, [...]
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