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Life Skills // Entrepreneurship

How people find out about what you're selling; signs, posters, social media, word of mouth; being persuasive; the basics of advertising and promotion

Life Skills // Entrepreneurship

Being honest, being fair, treating workers well, not harming the environment; what makes a 'good' business; whether businesses should care about more than…

Life Skills // Entrepreneurship

Where products come from before they reach the customer; raw materials, making, transporting, and selling; the journey of a product from start to finish

Life Skills // Entrepreneurship

What happens when a small business grows; making more products, hiring people, reaching more customers; the challenges and opportunities of scaling

Life Skills // Entrepreneurship

Presenting a business idea to others convincingly; explaining what makes it good and why people should support it; building confidence in public speaking about…

Life Skills // Entrepreneurship

Stories of real entrepreneurs who started young: Mikaila Ulmer (Me & the Bees), Moziah Bridges (Mo's Bows), Cory Nieves (Mr. Cory's Cookies); what makes someone…

Life Skills // Entrepreneurship

Using business skills to help others or solve social and environmental problems; making money AND making a difference; examples of social enterprises

Life Skills // Money & Finance

What a budget is; planning how to spend a fixed amount of pocket money or allowance; making trade-offs between different things you want to buy

Life Skills // Money & Finance

Calculating change from a purchase; working confidently with pounds and pence together; solving practical money problems involving addition and subtraction

Life Skills // Money & Finance

How advertising tries to influence what we buy; being a critical consumer; understanding 'value for money'; the difference between emotional and rational…

Life Skills // Money & Finance

What banks do and why people use them; bank accounts as safe places for money; that savings in a bank can earn interest; children's savings accounts

Life Skills // Money & Finance

Where products come from and who makes them; that people around the world produce what we buy; fair pay for workers; making ethical choices as consumers

Life Skills // Money & Finance

Different ways to pay: cash, debit cards, contactless, online payments, mobile payments; that digital payments still use real money; keeping payment details…

Life Skills // Money & Finance

Ways that children and adults earn money; the connection between work, skills and pay; that harder or more skilled work often pays more

Life Skills // Money & Finance

Recognising financial scams and tricks; phishing emails and fake websites; protecting personal and financial information online; 'if it seems too good to be…

Life Skills // Money & Finance

Why countries trade with each other; imports and exports; how goods travel around the world; that different countries use different currencies

Life Skills // Money & Finance

What an economy is; producers and consumers; supply and demand; why prices change; the basics of how markets work

Life Skills // Money & Finance

Setting longer-term financial goals; planning and prioritising spending; how saving regularly adds up over time; the value of thinking ahead with money

Life Skills // Money & Finance

What borrowing money means; that loans must be repaid with interest; what credit is; why too much debt can be risky; responsible borrowing

Life Skills // Money & Finance

What taxes are and why people pay them; how taxes fund schools, hospitals, roads, and emergency services; that governments decide how to spend tax money

Learning to Learn // Learning to Learn

After learning something new, explain it in your own words — to yourself, a family member, or even a toy

Learning to Learn // Learning to Learn

Look for connections between new ideas and things you already know — how does this fit with what I've learned before?

Learning to Learn // Learning to Learn

When your first approach isn't working, try a different one — being flexible about strategies is part of being a good learner

Learning to Learn // Learning to Learn

Spot patterns and recurring structures — in numbers, words, nature, sounds, or events — and use them to make sense of new information