A recent initiative launched by a small non for profit organisation called City Pay It Forward, lead by Quentin Nason.
They are a small group of passionate professionals and parents, and for about three years have been teaching the basics of financial literacy in primary schools. More recently in their spare time, they have been working to produce a comprehensive Year 6 Teacher Manual on financial literacy (pupils aged 10-11 years old).
Children develop financial habits from a very young age, youth indebtedness is on the rise, and yet the subject of financial literacy is not a mandatory subject in primary schools. At City Pay it Forward, we see financial education as part of overall children Well Being education.
The curriculum has been extensively peer reviewed, benefits from the Young Money Quality Mark (which is endorsed by the Department for Education and Education Scotland) and it has been tested with over 15,000 children across numerous schools in the country.
City Pay it Forward partnered with Rising Stars, part of Hodder Education, one of the largest educational publishers in the UK, and we are proud to announce that on 27 January 2020 every primary school in the UK (including Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), all 21,000 of them, received a Teacher’s Manual textbook for FREE.
And so what began as a local, grassroots initiative has now gone national!
The more teachers, and also parents, know about it, the greater the impact on the wider community.
All the materials are provided free of charge and the entire curriculum can be downloaded from