A hands-on financial literacy workshop that empowers primary students with essential money skills — from earning and saving to budgeting and spending — through interactive challenges, teamwork, and real-world scenarios.
Give your students the money skills they'll use for life
The Manage Money workshop is a fast-paced, interactive session that brings financial literacy to life. Students don't just learn about money — they experience it. Through team-based challenges, real-world scenarios, and hands-on decision-making, they discover how earning, saving, budgeting, and spending connect to their everyday lives.
Every session is adapted to your year group. Reception and Year 1 explore money through stories and play. Year 2 and 3 take on guided budgeting challenges. Year 4 and 5 run full enterprise simulations. And Year 6 tackle complex financial scenarios that prepare them for secondary school and beyond.
Your facilitator arrives with everything needed — presenter packs, visual prompts, team resources, and activity kits. No prep required from your staff.
2028 Curriculum Change
Financial literacy becomes statutory in primary schools from September 2028. Schools adopting the Manage Money workshop now have an 18-month head start — building staff confidence and student competence before the requirements land.
Future Skills Passport
Part of the Skills Passport
This workshop maps directly to the Manage Money skill in the Future Skills Passport programme. Book it as a standalone wow-factor day, or as part of your school's journey towards Bronze, Silver, or Gold accreditation.
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EYFS & Year 1
Explore
Year 2 & 3
Apply
Year 4 & 5
Lead
Year 6
What Students Do
Six hands-on activities, adapted by age
Every activity is designed to build a different financial skill. Your facilitator selects and adapts activities based on the year group.
1
Earn It
Students discover how people earn money through jobs, skills, and enterprise. They match careers to earnings, explore what makes work valuable, and discuss fair pay.
All year groups
2
Save It
A savings goal challenge where teams decide how much to save, what they're saving for, and how long it takes. Younger students use visual piggy bank charts; older students calculate interest.
All year groups
3
Spend It Wisely
Teams receive a budget and must make spending decisions — prioritising needs vs. wants, comparing prices, and dealing with unexpected costs that force them to adapt.
Year 2+
4
Budget Boss
The flagship challenge. Teams plan a school event with a fixed budget — allocating funds across categories, negotiating costs, and presenting their plan to the class.
Year 3+
5
Money Detectives
Students investigate real-world money scenarios — spotting scams, understanding advertising tricks, and learning to question "too good to be true" offers.
Year 4+
6
Future Finance
Year 6 students explore longer-term financial concepts — from understanding bank accounts and borrowing to planning their own enterprise idea with a startup budget.
Year 5 & 6
Learning Outcomes
What students take away
Every session is designed around measurable outcomes that align with the National Curriculum and the Future Skills Passport framework.
Financial vocabulary
Students can use and explain key terms: earning, saving, budget, interest, needs, wants, profit, and loss.
Budgeting confidence
Students can create a simple budget, allocate resources, and explain their spending choices.
Critical thinking about money
Students can evaluate spending decisions, distinguish needs from wants, and spot financial risks.
Real-world application
Students connect financial concepts to their own lives — pocket money, saving goals, and everyday choices.
The children were completely engaged from start to finish. The budgeting challenge had them debating, negotiating, and thinking critically about every penny. Several teachers said it was the best workshop they'd seen all year.
Year 4 Teacher
Primary School, London
Plan Your Enrichment Calendar
Perfect For
Ties into key financial literacy events and the upcoming curriculum changes making financial education statutory.
My Money Week · JuneGlobal Money Week · MarchTalk Money Week · NovemberFinancial Literacy Enrichment · Year Round
Pricing & Your Workshop Day
Mission-Led Pricing for Future Skills
Every child deserves these skills. We’ve kept Future Skills workshops accessible to every school’s PSHE budget — including Pupil Premium — so price is never the reason a class misses out.
Half Day
Up to 4 sessions
£599Future Skills accessible price
£499
+VAT
Up to 128 students · £3.87 per student
35–40 min sessions
Up to 32 students per session
EYFS – Year 6 adaptable
All resources & materials included
Dedicated facilitator
Best Value
Full Day
Up to 7 sessions
£799Future Skills accessible price
£599
+VAT
Up to 224 students · from £2.66 per student
40 min (Y3–6) · 35 min (Y1–2 & EYFS)
Up to 32 students per session
EYFS – Year 6 adaptable
All resources & materials included
Dedicated facilitator
Reach every class in your school
✨ After your workshop
Make it stick — add the Future Skills Passport
Workshops are how schools meet the Future Skills Passport. The Passport is the year-long journey — pupils carry their progress from one workshop to the next, and teachers get the statutory PSHE evidence built in.
✓Year-long progression tracking across all 12 Future Skills strands
✓Pupil badges & certificates they can show parents and take to Year 7
✓Statutory PSHE auto-mapped to the DfE framework — no spreadsheets
✓One-click inspection PDF — per pupil, per class, whole-school
✓Members’ discount on every additional Spark2 workshop
✓Free staff training session included with every subscription
From £249/year for a single class · whole-school options available
Sample full-day timetable
Here's how a typical full-day workshop fits around your school day. KS2 sessions run 40 minutes; KS1 & EYFS sessions run 35 minutes. We're flexible — we'll work around your timetable.
9:00 – 9:40
Session 1
e.g. Year 3 · 40 min
9:45 – 10:25
Session 2
e.g. Year 4 · 40 min
10:25 – 10:40
Morning break
10:40 – 11:20
Session 3
e.g. Year 5 · 40 min
11:25 – 12:05
Session 4
e.g. Year 6 · 40 min
12:05 – 1:00
Lunch break
1:00 – 1:35
Session 5
e.g. Year 1 · 35 min
1:40 – 2:15
Session 6
e.g. Year 2 · 35 min
2:20 – 2:55
Session 7
e.g. EYFS / Reception · 35 min
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This workshop is part of the Future Skills Passport programme. Book it as a standalone wow-factor day, or as part of your school's journey towards Bronze, Silver, or Gold accreditation.
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