Pupils from The Downs School in Compton recently got stuck into some personal finance workshops delivered by our financial education partner, WizeUp.
Financial education has been a teaching requirement of local authority secondary schools in England since 2014, and is often taught as part of Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) or Citizenship lessons.
However, the government has recently announced a review on how financial learning is delivered after the All Parliamentary Group on Financial Education found that delivery is challenging for many schools, with timing, funding, and lack of experience often cited as being the key barriers.
The inconsistency in financial education is one of the reasons the Society have partnered with WizeUp, a national financial charity who have been delivering financial education virtually and in person to schools since 2011. They aim to make learning about personal finance more accessible and importantly, engaging.
The Downs is the third school in the Society's local area to receive a workshop in 2023, following John Hansen in Andover, and John O' Gaunt in Hungerford. The sessions were delivered by Lee Giles, who has facilitated previous sessions, as well as Matthew Wilding, Senior Branch Manager of our Thatcham and Hungerford branches.