Activities for SEND Educators

Our Money Heroes SEND Activities have been designed for those delivering in a range of settings. We have included a number of sections which give ideas on how to adapt the activity to suit your setting and the children you work with.

Each activity contains the following sections:

Difficulty level

Each activity contains a difficulty level, based on children’s financial knowledge, skills and understanding. SEND Educators should choose activities based on the financial capability level of the children they are working with.

Beginner – This level suits children who have little financial education knowledge.

Intermediate – This level would suit children who have some financial education knowledge and are beginning to understand simple financial concepts such as spending and saving.

Advanced – This level would suit children who are ready to start building on their financial education knowledge and basic understanding with more challenging thinking and development of skills.

Expert – This level would suit children who are thinking more critically about and showing sound knowledge of financial concepts and are ready to explore more complicated topics such as tax and National Insurance.

What’s it about?

An introduction to the activity, including information about what financial themes it covers. Key financial education themes are highlighted in bold lettering.

Key themes

Activity learning objectives, taken from the Young Money Primary Planning Framework.

Materials needed

Materials required for the activity, including any links/references to specific resource templates.

Key vocabulary

The key vocabulary covered within the activity. See our Money Heroes Glossary for definitions of key financial terms.

Activity timings

Timings of either a whole activity, or in some cases, smaller sections of an activity. Most activities also contain a box on page 2 which states how SEND Educators could deliver the activity over separate sessions if their setting is short on time.

How it works

Instructions for the delivery of the activity. For some activities this section is split into smaller sub-sections.

Add a challenge

A way to extend the activity should SEND Educators want children to further explore some of the financial education themes outlined in the main activity.

Helping hand

Ideas for SEND Educators to deliver the activity, or some main concepts, in a simpler way.

Adaptations for this activity

Specific adaptations which might suit SEND Educators and children within various settings, such as the suggestion of how you might tackle a difficult concept with children.

How to deliver Money Heroes activities within your setting

As all settings and requirements are different and unique to you, there is no set requirement for the delivery of activities. However, you may choose to do one or more of the following:

• split your children into ability groupings and deliver the relevant activities within that ability level e.g., ‘advanced’ level.

• choose one theme at a time to focus on and deliver activities which fall within that theme e.g., budgeting.

• deliver sections of one activity, over a series of sessions.

• spend longer than the suggested timeframe on an activity.

• choose individual sections of an activity to deliver.

• deliver all activities, using the ‘add a challenge’ and ‘helping hand’ sections to cater for various ability levels.

• create opportunities within your setting to extend the learning of an activity e.g., by setting up a tuck shop after delivering the ‘Let’s Play Shops’ activity.

• deliver activities 1:1.

• adapt an existing activity to suit individual/ group needs e.g., instead of using paper resources provided, use practical resources.