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Free classroom-ready finance education

A proper teachers section for money, tax and investing literacy

Use this as the staff-room front door: age-banded lesson packs, printable PDFs, curriculum progression, classroom routines, assessment ideas and safe routes into the calculators when learners are ready.

Start here

The teacher section is built around one classroom promise: every activity should teach a useful money idea without needing accounts, paywalls, data collection, or financial product promotion.

Plan

Curriculum progression

See how the site moves from coins and choices to payslips, tax wrappers, debt, investing and pensions.

Open map

Teach

Lesson packs and answer keys

Download learner and teacher PDFs for each age band, with answer keys, talk prompts and session flow.

Get PDFs

Run

Classroom toolkit

Use the five-part lesson routine, differentiation ideas, behaviour-safe discussion prompts and assessment rubric.

Open toolkit

Classroom command centre

Use this as the professional planning layer before opening a PDF. It gives a full sequence for delivery, assessment and home communication without asking pupils to disclose family finances.

6-week unit

Money foundations

Coins and value, needs versus wants, saving goals, budget trade-offs, fraud awareness and reflection.

Map the unit

Starter routine

Do now, model, practise, explain

Every lesson should include a quick retrieval prompt, a worked example, independent practice and a short explanation task.

Open routine

Assessment

Vocabulary plus judgement

Assess whether pupils can explain the trade-off, not just whether they can click the right answer.

Open rubrics

Safeguard

Use fictional households

Keep discussion safe by using made-up salaries, bills and choices. Do not ask learners to reveal household income, debt or benefits.

Parent wording

Print

Lesson pack first, site second

Print the teacher pack and learner pack before using games or calculators, so the lesson still works if technology fails.

Open downloads

Extend

Older learners bridge into tools

Ages 14-18 can safely move from fictional case studies into calculators once vocabulary and boundaries are clear.

Open routes

Teacher resource library

This is the professional layer around the PDFs: planning, classroom delivery, assessment, assemblies, homework and parent communication.

Plan

Lesson plans

Age-banded routes with objectives, timings, discussion prompts and safe classroom boundaries.

Open plans

Print

Worksheets

Printable task routes for money choices, budgets, payslips, tax, debt, saving and investing.

Open worksheets

Assess

Assessment rubrics

Judge vocabulary, reasoning, calculation confidence and safe decision-making without over-testing.

Open rubrics

Whole school

Assembly ideas

Short assembly themes for saving, payslips, fraud awareness, debt language and future choices.

Open assemblies

Extend

Homework tasks

Take-home prompts that use fictional scenarios and avoid asking pupils to reveal family finances.

Open homework

Home link

Parent handouts

Calm copy blocks for explaining what pupils are learning and how families can discuss money safely.

Open handouts

Age-band routes

Ages 5-7

Money basics

Coins, needs versus wants, saving patience and simple everyday choices.

Ages 8-9

Money explorer

Budgeting, trade-offs, goal setting and the idea that choices have opportunity costs.

Ages 10-13

Money and tax basics

First earnings, tax language, pocket money, saving, risk and reward.

Ages 14-16

Real-world money

Payslips, tax drag, borrowing, fraud awareness, investing basics and decision quality.

Ages 16-18+

Adult money

Net pay, pensions, ISAs, LISA trade-offs, debt payoff and long-term planning.

Staff use

Calculator bridge

Older learners can move into the calculators once the vocabulary and trade-offs are secure.

What makes it classroom-safe

No locked learning

The site is free. Teacher packs, printables and classroom routes are not hidden behind accounts or premium tiers.

Not financial advice

Lessons focus on concepts, choices and language. They do not tell a child what product to buy or what their family should do.

Discussion before answers

The strongest learning happens when pupils explain why an answer makes sense, not just when they click the right option.

Printable backup

Every route should still work if a screen, device, login or internet connection gets awkward on the day.