Financial Literacy

In Maths today we began looking at Financial Literacy. It is great to hear students talking about saving up their pocket money that they earn by doing jobs, to buy items that they would like. Claudia worked out that it would take 300weeks to save her pocket money to buy an IPad!!
We discussed mortgages, interest rates, needs and wants, trade-offs, profits, income and other similar words and concepts.
This is such a crucial topic for children of this age to be increasingly aware of. Please have some really rich conversations at home around this topic.
Thanks!