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Personal Finance Course
The Royal High School
The Royal High School
1200 pupils
200 in S5
Required an alternative to the Intermediate 1
course, for pupils who had passed SG Maths at
Foundation grade
Maths and Business Education Depts
5 hours timetabled each week:
– 2 hours in Maths
– 2 hours in Business Education
– 1 hour team teaching
Personal Finance Course
Int 1 Maths NABs
Practical course – involving projects like:
– My first flat – researching salaries, costs of
renting, cost of living
– Shopping for the week
– Budgeting at Christmas
– How much will my first car cost and how will I
finance it?
Events
Tesco to look at price labels on goods
Princes Street – mobile phone shops
Bank representatives into school
How else can it be delivered?
10 week short course in S3 completing the
Money Management unit
S4 pupils not attaining in Accounting and
Finance