Format
3 x 75 minute sessions delivered over 6 weeks – 1 x Assembly – Teacher Resource Pack – Family Activity Pack
Target Group
9-11 year olds – P6/7 in Scotland – Lower KS2 also available
Group Size
12-30 young people
Content
A highly interactive financial education programme, designed to help set positive money habits and mind-sets from an early age.
Expert-led sessions are complemented by an assembly, teacher resources and family challenges. These unique and engaging activities teach young people to become informed consumers, savvy savers, and mindful spenders by making finance fun.
Sessions include:
- Assembly: Introduction to different money mindsets related to the consequences of everyday spending and saving.
- My Money: Awareness of money habits, delayed gratification and looking at strategies to resist temptation when spending.
- My Choices: Prioritising needs and wants, the cost of living and exploring how to manage your money through budgeting.
- My Future: The benefits of saving, understanding interest as both a reward for saving and a charge for borrowing. Looking at different financial risks and setting a future finance goal.
See how this programme maps into the National Curriculum and references the UK’s Financial Education Planning Framework for teachers. Online versions also available.
Money Twist involves writing, presenting, drawing, maths and problem-solving. We use interactive resources and videos, engaging students to remember new knowledge and form their own money opinions. Underpinning behaviour change is the development of executive functions.
Impact
Money Twist has been evaluated and proven by The Money Advice Service’s Evidence Hub.
MyBnk Cancellation Policy: Cancellations and changes made to scheduled deliveries incur costs to MyBnk. Any changes made less than two weeks in advance will result in a £100 or, if less than three working days, £250 charge per MyBnk trainer. Full Terms & Conditions here.
Case Studies
From opening a first bank account and trading in real markets, to moving out of care and into independent living, MyBnk’s financial education workshops pack a BIG punch!
"It makes maths real!" Improving teens numeracy skills by understanding investment
“My Mind Has Been Blown!" - Shannon, 8, opens her first bank account and starts her savings journey
"Learning to live independently taught me I had worth" Leaving care and dodging bankruptcy
Impact After This Programme
68
Pupils who would not delay gratification, now would
70
Pupils are now pursuing a savings goal
87
Teachers who said pupils now know financial decisions have consequences
“If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can't buy.”
"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."
Money doesn’t grow on trees but if it did you’d plant the seeds
Money is the root of all evil
Money can’t buy manners
"Save money, and money will save you!”ou!"
'Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.'
"I want young people to understand things like APR as much as they understand LOL".
"If money go before, all ways do lie open" (Shakespeare)
"There are people who have money and people who are rich". [Coco Chanel]
“Don’t just make money, make a difference”.
"The more you LEARN the more you EARN".
"Take care of the pennies and the pounds take care of themselves!"
"Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you”. [Maya Angelou]
"MyBnk is more than just a job. It's a lifestyle!"
"A wise man once said the best thing money can buy is financial freedom".
“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.” - Haruki Murakami
"If you want to be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting".
"If money is the sea, learn to ride the waves".
“Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.” Bob Marley
