Your child’s school can win £1,500 if they teach financial education – tell ‘em!

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[title=http://images2.moneysavingexpert.com/images/dp/wtd_underline.gif] What’s this all about?[/title]
The Personal Finance Education Awards, a joint project between RBS and pfeg, is an annual event for schools and students aged 5 to 18 in England, Wales and Scotland to win prizes for the personal finance education provided at their school.

There are three categories: all-round approach, teacher award and student award. The student will need to be nominated by their teacher. You need to enter before Friday 28 April 2011 but judging will take place in May and there’s an awards ceremony in London in June.

In each category there is a prize (one for primary and one for secondary) of £1,500 for the school and a prize, eg laptop, for the individual. There’s also runners up prizes of £500 for the school and a prize, eg iPod, for the individual.

[title=http://images2.moneysavingexpert.com/images/dp/wtd_underline.gif] How to enter[/title]
To enter you need to fill out the short online entry form with details on how you, or your school, have provided cash classes. You can also include a supporting statement from a partner organisation, or supporting documents, if you have them.

Examples of what you may have done include:

• Generated resources that could be used by other teachers, classes or schools
• Designing a game about personal budgeting for the school
• Helping students to run a school bank
• Included finance in cross-curricular topics

There are tips on how to complete your entry on the pfs-awards website.

Let us know if you enter and what work your school does in personal finance and best of luck

[title=http://images2.moneysavingexpert.com/images/dp/wtd_underline.gif] Want your school to provide more finance fun?[/title]
In the UK we've educated our youth into debt when they go to university but never about debt and it's time to change that.

We’ve joined a Parliamentary Group for Financial Education (along with many other organisations including pfeg and RBS) to campaign on getting consumer finance education in every school. In the meantime both teachers and parents can run cash classes using our Teen Cash Class guide, plus there’s a range of other resources on the pfeg website.

See the Financial Education section on our site for more info.

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MartinWickham

Finance education in schools? It'll be like sharks in your child's paddling pool!

craftymum1

At the school I volunteer at, we are having "my money week" next week. I think in today's society, kids should learn the importance of money. They think they only have to whine at parents to get what they want. Kids today have so much, but do they really understand the value of these things?