Young people need to be prepared for a world that is changing rapidly, some jobs they will end up doing do not even exist yet. It’s incredibly important to develop the skills and attitudes to cope with an unpredictable future and be prepared and ready for the world of work, including self-employment. Enterprise encourages young people to develop skills for life, learning and employment and from an early age, children have a natural ability to be enterprising.
My Money Week is a national activity week for primary and secondary school aged children and young people, providing a fantastic opportunity for them to gain the skills, knowledge and confidence in money matters to thrive in society. The resources are flexible for use in a variety of settings, and the latest resources include both a Teacher’s Guide and a Home Learning Guide to support teachers, parents, and youth workers in using the My Money Week resources both in school and at home.
Teachers, parents and anyone working with children and young people can sign up for a free My Money Week account below. This will give you access to all My Money Week resources back to 2014 and ensure you are kept up to date when new resources are available.
Note to parents: To sign up to the My Money Week Resource Hub as a parent, please use your child’s school name and address in the Organisation Name and Organisation Address fields on the registration form, and select Parent/Home Educator under Organisation Type.
Values Money and Me is the UK’s first free online teaching resource specifically designed to give young children a head start in life by helping develop their financial knowledge and abilities, as well as their attitudes and values towards money. Based in the fictional community of Pride Place, character-lead learning explores the families and their stories with interactive books, activities and quizzes.
Qualities of an Entrepreneur
Product Design and Pitch
Lower school science, a STEM competition and enterprise projects for upper school.
Science Farm – science lessons for KS1
Stemterprise – real life projects linking farming with STEM
Farmvention – yearly competitions linking farming with STEM
My Business Plan
Discover session packs to help improve the financial capability skills and wellbeing of young people, carefully designed to suit their target age group. Topics come with a variety of support materials. Each session pack includes the resources needed to run an engaging one-to-one or group session and includes advice for running sessions virtually.
If you are a teacher wanting something fun and rewarding to inspire your students, or a parent looking for a creative activity for a rainy day – Little Inventors has everything you need to embrace the spirit of imagination and support your students in coming up with marvellous, ingenious and bonkers invention ideas.
A monthly competition for children to design an invention. The winners are made and filmed by the YouTube channel, with sponsors such as The Hilton for design your own hotel room.
This lesson is designed to encourage students to see innovation as part of developing an enterprising mindset. It includes the opportunity for students to generate new ideas and present them back to the group.
By the end of the activity students will be able to:
Explore and generate ideas, Reflect on where they see innovation being used and how it links to creativity, Identify what to include in a presentation showcasing an idea, and top tips for presenting”
This guide has been produced following extensive research on Enterprise
Education1 to ensure that it reflects the experiences and needs of those delivering
Enterprise Education today and in the future.
The guide aims to support practitioners in schools to embed Enterprise Education
seamlessly into lesson plans, and to apply existing ideas and good practice to
their own approach.
This resource pack provides ideas for discussion, activities and a framework to help you use social entrepreneurship as an engaging project for pupils aged 7–14.
Famous Entrepreneur Budget
Enterprise Budget
Design a Logo
Free, 12-lesson teaching resource that introduces young people to how money and the economy works, created in partnership with Beano and Tes.
These lessons aim to help young people gain the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to manage money now and in the future. You can use them to support your school’s PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic) curriculum. It can be used as part of a complete scheme of work, a cross-curricular project. Money and Me explores a range of different topics from the history of money to contactless payments. It features familiar Beano characters (Dennis, Gnasher and Minnie) in real-life situations that involve making decisions about money.Each lesson introduces key economic concepts that young people can explore and discuss. This will help to build their confidence, critical thinking and decision-making skills. The 12 lessons can be taught in any order within a key stage, phase or level.
A suite of five financial education lesson plans intended for delivery to a range of ages from year 4 to Year 11.Each session is between 1 hour and 1.5 hours in duration and is focussed on different elements of financial capability. The Work Out Your Money Programme for Schools has been developed over a five year period and each lesson includes an Outline Lesson Plan, PowerPoint presentations, Activity Sheets and Case Studies.
