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A wooden cash register was one of the purchases made by Queenspark Primary for their nursery class to learn financial education through play.

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Last academic year, Chester Blue Coat decided to take on The Fiver Challenge and “give it a go.” Like many schools, we have faced financial pressures, unfortunately there was no room in the budget to fund a special treat for our Year 6 pupils as they prepared to leave for secondary school.

What better motivation for our pupils than this: whatever profit they made could be spent on an end-of-year celebration of their choosing.

Across our two Year 6 classes, the children formed 10 groups and began generating ideas. Each team set out to design a game or activity that would be both entertaining for their customers and profitable enough to raise a healthy sum. To keep things weatherproof, the games had to be suitable for indoor classrooms.

With creativity buzzing, plans were carefully drawn up and shopping lists submitted. The children researched the best value for money, sourced materials and in some cases even purchased the items themselves-proudly providing receipts like true entrepreneurs.

The big day was added to the diary, parents were invited to support and preparations began in earnest. When the morning finally arrived, the Year 6 stalls were a delight-colourful, inventive and ready for business. The whole school was timetabled to visit in slots, ensuring a steady stream of eager customers.

After a whirlwind morning of running games and counting takings, the young entrepreneurs were exhausted but thrilled. Throughout the event, they provided a running commentary of their growing profits, excitement building with every coin collected.

Finally, after the last pennies were counted and “coppered up,” the results were in: an incredible £440 had been raised! The cheers from our 57 Year 6 pupils said it all-hard work, teamwork and a spark of enterprise had paid off, funding a well-deserved end-of-year treat they could truly call their own.

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Ysgol Bryn Gwalia, a school deeply rooted in its community has focused on supporting families and children in their local area. As part of its commitment to community support, the school has…

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Starting a School Shop: Ysgol Bryn Gwalia

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Starting a School Shop: Ysgol Bryn Gwalia

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With the help of the Arts Council for Wales' Lead Creative Schools Scheme, and inspired by an idea from pupil Archie Pitson, pupils created the Hope Hut at Ysgol Bryn Gwalia, in Mold.

Guided by creative digital practitioner Rob Spaull, digital storyteller Livi Wilmore and Janet Ruth Davies, a creative agent at Arts Council of Wales, the children were involved in every step - from concept to functioning facility.

With 58% of children at Ysgol Bryn Gwalia receiving free school meals, the social and financial challenges families faced were a key issue for the pupils to tackle.

The Hope Hut, with initial funding from the Arts Council for Wales, is stocked with basic food and household items, as well as some treats, sold at affordable prices to anyone in the community that needs it. Any money taken will go back into the project.

The project has so far received support and donations from Superdrug, Kellogg's, Elite Taxis and Harlech Foods. DC Wolfe Construction supplied soil for vegetable patches to allow children to grow their own produce, with plans to also bake their own bread.

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Children have created characters that come alive with the use of QR codes around the school, and provide information on the project. These characters also feature in a recipe book that children have put together, featuring low cost meal ideas.

Deputy headteacher and Year 6 teacher Kate Sturdy said: "It's been amazing to see how skills have developed with this project, especially in resilience, collaborating and digital skills."

Read more: Flintshire school's uniform and equipment shop a huge success

Archie, who came up with the original idea, said: "We were trying to come up with community ideas, and with the cost of living crisis and people struggling, we decide to make a shop so people can worry less, so they can do other things."

Headteacher Lorrain Dalton said: "It's been a long time in the making. Our children wanted to support the community and parents, they are social change makers.

"Through the project they have learnt a range of skills - design, costing and budgeting - they're doing what people in business do.

"They should be so proud of their legacy."

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Flintshire pupils offering a bit of 'hope' in their community

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Year 6 pupils at a Flintshire primary school, have opened a community shop at the school, aimed at supporting those affected by the cost of living...

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Building Independence, SEND: Ivel Valley School & College

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Building Independence, SEND: Ivel Valley School & College

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Ivel Valley School & College COE Case Study

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A 'sharing event' for neighbour schools: Ysgol Esgob Morgan

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A 'sharing event' for neighbour schools: Ysgol Esgob Morgan

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Ysgol Esgob Morgan are a primary school in Wales currently working towards their Centres of Excellence reaccreditation. They hosted a 'sharing event' in April which was attended by 9 teachers from 7 different settings (primary & secondary).

They utilised their CoE consultant to help create & deliver the event which took place over a full school day and involved knowledge, skills and attitude development across financial education.

Schools spent time looking at financial capability, curriculum links, resources, best practice and sharing opportunities.

The event evaluation showed the breadth of knowledge that was developed during the day and ALL of the members of staff who attended have gone on to design/develop something in school. As well as directly benefiting all attending schools, the host school will also refer to the event in their own reaccreditation portfolio.

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School-Home Partnership through a Parent Cafe: Ashmole Primary

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School-Home Partnership through a Parent Cafe: Ashmole Primary

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When Larisa Alikhan at Cheam Fields Primary School joined the Centres of Excellence programme, one of the first things she did was write to parents to make them aware that her school was about to develop their financial education offer.

'Rate the value you place on financial education.

What are your thoughts on pocket money?

Do you talk about money at home?'

were just some of the questions she asked.

Larisa explained that the result of this letter was so positive and insightful and altered the direction she took the programme.

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Getting creative with baselining at The UTC Derby

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Getting creative with baselining at The UTC Derby

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If you're engaged with the Centres of Excellence programme you'll know that baselining your learners is part of the process.

The UTC Derby is no exception and implemented a unique session around creating avatars of their future selves to empower learners to envision their future lifestyles and careers.

Many of the learners are studying design-based courses and the exercise seemed fitting.

Students were encouraged to consider their interests, skills, and career goals when designing their avatars.

The session then prompted a lot of discussion and insight into their aspirations.

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In-house Bank and Currency: Kirton Primary

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In-house Bank and Currency: Kirton Primary

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Read here how Kirton Primary in Lincolnshire have engaged pupils with financial education and careers education & skills development with their inhouse bank & currency

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The Snack Shack was set up to help the children develop their financial skills by running a healthy snack shop. Years 5 and 6 have responsibility for running the enterprise but it’s open to all classes.  Pupils help with stock ordering, counting the day’s sales revenue and keeping financial records up to date.

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Young Enterprise have developed a set of over 80 primary and secondary ready-to-teach lesson plans complete with activity sheets and PowerPoint slides.

Our financial education lesson plans will allow you to build your own bespoke scheme of work in minutes.

The lesson plans are mapped to the Primary and Secondary Planning Frameworks and will allow you to cover a range of financial topics relevant to your pupils.

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Benefits of joining Handpicked lesson plans created by our team of experts Ready to teach lesson plans for every year of education, from Key Stage 1 – 5 Materials for half or whole day workshops f

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Cheam Park Farm and Cheam Fields Primary have been trialling a new reward initiative in the form of their own LEO School Bank. All pupils in Year 2 have an online school bank account and can earn virtual LEO Coins when demonstrating exemplary behaviour, effort or work at school.

The bank supports their financial literacy curriculum by developing knowledge, skills and attitudes from the wide range of objectives from the financial planning framework in an applied way. For example, the bank brings lessons around the decisions made when spending and saving, needs vs wants, how one can earn interest and get into debt.

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Every half term, the school organises a careers assembly for each year group.  Volunteers from a range of industries are invited to speak to the children about their career – how they got into the role, what tasks they are expected to perform, how their role supports the business and the likely salary they might be expected to gain.  Volunteers this year have come from the world of engineering, medicine, civil service, emergency services plus many more!

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In 2018, Our lady set up a School Saving Club with the support of the local Credit Union, pupils have saved £40,000 + since inception.