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Financial Literacy for KS5 – Personal Finance & Life Skills Unit
Prepare your sixth form students for the financial realities of adult life with this fully resourced 7-lesson unit on Financial Literacy, tailored for ages 16–18. This curriculum supports PSHE, Citizenship, and Careers education with real-world, scenario-based content and practical financial skills.

📦 What’s Included:
• 7 x Fully Editable Lesson PowerPoints
• 7 x Homework Activities
• 7 x End-of-Lesson Confidence Checker Assessments
• 1 x Finance Escape Room (Team-Based Challenge)

📚 Lesson Topics:

1. Planning for Retirement: What You Need to Know
2. Understanding Debt and How It Spirals
3. Why Financial Literacy Matters
4. What is Money Laundering?
5. Gaming vs Gambling: Where’s the Line?
6. Careers in Finance and Banking
7. Managing a Household Budget

🧠 Each Lesson Features:
• Engaging, editable slides with learning outcomes
• Embedded videos, scenario tasks & discussion points
• Challenge tasks, reflection activities, and quick-fire quizzes
• Confidence checker for end-of-lesson assessment
• Mapped to PSHE Association guidance, DfE life skills expectations, and Gatsby benchmarks

🎯 Key Learning Outcomes:
Students will:
• Understand how to plan for retirement and explore pension types
• Identify different forms of debt and how financial obligations can escalate
• Recognize the importance of financial literacy in adult life
• Learn how money laundering works and how to spot red flags
• Examine the difference between gaming and gambling, including legal and emotional consequences
• Discover a variety of careers in finance and banking, including required skills and routes
• Learn how to create and manage a basic household budget

🔑 Key Vocabulary:
Retirement, pension, state pension, private pension
Debt, APR, interest, credit score, creditor, bailiff
Budgeting, saving, investing, financial planning
Money laundering, fraud, transaction tracking
Gambling, gaming, risk, loot boxes, regulation
Banking, fintech, finance careers, wealth management

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