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Maths but make it cross curricular! I taught KS2 for 12+ years, and the links that worked were never the forced ones. Th...
29/09/2026

Maths but make it cross curricular!

I taught KS2 for 12+ years, and the links that worked were never the forced ones. They were the ones where the children didn't realise they were learning.

Like a good old debate. Children LOVE one.

That is because it’s playful and less structured.

When you teach children financial literacy, then bring in the maths, citizenship and British values, it’s going to make for one amazing lesson.

Suddenly they're voting, listening to other views and living with their choices. And the adding, subtracting, percentages and giving change turns up because they need it, in a way they'll use again.

That's what we built Money Town around.

What's your go-to cross-curricular maths link?

Tell me below 👇 (and comment TOWN if you'd like to see how it fits your curriculum!)

27/09/2026

September update from Cash Academy 🎉

It's hard to believe it's been a year since our very first Money Town workshop and what a year it's been.

Since then, we've:

-Delivered over 16 workshops in schools across the region

-Nearly finished a full financial literacy curriculum for teachers to use in their classrooms

-Built partnerships with RUCT, SWFCCP and SUCF

-Expanded into secondary schools, with post-16 settings on the horizon

-Started planning how to grow our team so we can reach even more children and communities

We're already sitting on the same number of bookings for this year that we had for the whole of last year and it's only September.

None of this would mean anything without the schools who've taken a chance on us, booked us, given us feedback, rebooked us, and shown us that financial literacy really does matter to the children and communities they serve. Thank you.

Here's to the next 12 months. 💛

24/09/2026

What does Financial Literacy look like in your school?

Just 6 more days until the end of September so if you’ve been thinking about booking one of our workshops, this one’s for you 🙌

Any school that books before the 30th of September gets a full year of access to my brand-new financial education curriculum FOR FREE!

That’s over £300 worth of KS2 content to use across the whole school.

Here’s what that means in practice:

→ Teachers get a head start before the 2028 curriculum changes

→ The classroom learning continues long after we’ve left

→ Children embed key maths skills through real life, role play scenarios

→ No additional planning or workload for your teachers. We’ve done it for them!

Drop me a message or click the link below to get booked in.

www.cashacademy.co.uk/book-now/

23/09/2026

You don’t need to be an expert to start talking to your children about money at home 💷

Sometimes the most simple role play can open up SO many conversations.

This is what I love about financial education, it doesn’t always need to feel like learning.

If you would like the FREE resources to set this activity up at home, comment MONEY below and we will send them over 👇

"Isn't my child too young for this?" I get asked this a lot and it is usually by people who've never taught a room full ...
21/09/2026

"Isn't my child too young for this?"

I get asked this a lot and it is usually by people who've never taught a room full of 7-year-olds.

Just 1% of primary teachers think their pupils' money skills are "adequate" (Social Market Foundation, 2024). That's not a small gap.

Swipe to see why we start so young 👉

Teacher, school leader or parent — get in touch if you want this for your class or your child 💛

Where are we actually at with the new financial education curriculum? A few people have asked me this lately, so here's ...
13/09/2026

Where are we actually at with the new financial education curriculum? A few people have asked me this lately, so here's a quick timeline 👇

📍 Nov 2025 — The Curriculum and Assessment Review recommended that financial literacy become a compulsory part of primary school. The government agreed.

📍 Sept 2026 — The Department for Education has opened its public consultation on what this will actually look like in classrooms.

📍 Spring 2027 — The final curriculum gets published.

📍 Sept 2028 — Schools start teaching it.

Organisations like Young Enterprise have been campaigning for this for years, and I'm firmly in their corner. Because deciding that financial literacy should be taught is the easy part. The real question is whether teachers will actually have the training, confidence, resources and time to teach it well.

That's what I think we should all be talking about over the next 18 months:

👉 What does good delivery actually look like?

👉 How do we make this accessible to every child?

👉 How do we stop it becoming "just another thing on the list" for already-stretched teachers?

We all know that done properly, this could be huge for the next generation.

A bit of context on why this matters so much to me:

I spent over 12 years teaching in one of the most deprived areas of the country, in a school where the children needed this kind of learning the most.

I know what it looks like when kids don't get it, and I'd love the opportunity to help shape what this should look like for them and how we make sure it closes the gap.

2028 might feel a long way off, but it really isn't.

What's your school doing to get ahead of it?

If you'd like to chat about how we could support your school before 2028, I'd love to hear from you.

11/09/2026

For young children, money is becoming harder to see.

They see us tap a card.

They see us tap a phone.

They might see us order something online.

But they don’t see the money leaving our hands.

And that makes teaching children about digital money more important than ever.

My own youngest daughter, who is three, could only tell me that coins were for the shopping trolley when I asked her. That is the only thing she identified with actual cash.

When I’m talking to children in schools, I often hear ideas like:

💳 “The money is just in the bank.”

💳 “You can keep spending because you’ve got a card and you borrow it.”

💳 “If you don’t have any cash, you haven’t really spent anything.”

We need to help children connect the dots.

That a bank card isn’t an endless pot of money.

That the phone we tap is connected to a real bank account.

That spending digitally is still spending.

And that managing money means knowing what you have, what you’re spending and what you can actually afford.

As cash becomes less common, financial education needs to keep up.

Children need to understand money even when they can’t physically see it.

If your school needs support with making financial literacy real or you are a parent who would like this in your child’s school, please get in touch 😊

10/09/2026

Welcome to the Tax & Bills zone in Money Town — the part where children can really use those debating skills!

Here's what happens:

1️⃣ They become the government and decide where they think the tax money should be spent and in which order.

2️⃣ Children get a selection of mystery bill amounts and have to guess what each one is for, just from the amount. It gets children thinking about just how much their household outgoings might be.

3️⃣ They add up their monthly outgoings and subtract it from their monthly budget, live, with real numbers. All that arithmetic practice put into a real life scenario.

4️⃣ Then the twist: in role as a family, they discuss how to shrink those bills. Cancelling unused subscriptions. Turning the tap off when you brush your teeth. Shopping around. Saving the difference.

By the end, they're not just adding and subtracting, they understand why a bill matters, where their money actually goes, and that saving £5 a month on a forgotten subscription is £60 a year back in their pocket.

This is what financial education should feel like. Not a worksheet. A lived experience.

📩 Want this in your school hall? Link in bio.

03/09/2026

Spoiler: it worked.

Give children real money (well, fake real money 😅), real decisions and a whole town to explore and suddenly saving vs. spending, budgeting and investing is the most exciting lesson of the term.

That’s the magic of Money Town 🏙️💰

Bringing hands-on financial education into your school? Link in bio to book.

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