Entries are open for the Personal Finance Teacher of the Year Awards
Investment service ‘interactive investor’ (ii) is looking for Britain’s best money teachers for its Personal Finance Teacher of the Year Awards 2023. Awards are open to teachers in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The awards recognise creative money education, with a prize of £25,000 shared among the winning teachers’ schools across the UK.
Covering both primary and secondary schools, past winners have come from a diverse range of schools, including special educational needs schools.
This is something ii is keen to point out, given young people with SEND are more at risk from escalating online financial scams, according to Young Enterprise.
This year, interactive investor is also supporting entries for a new category to honour the most inspirational support teacher/teaching assistant who has gone above and beyond to support pupils to become more confident in money management skills, perhaps to cement maths concepts.
The challenge of encouraging confidence in mathematics was highlighted by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s announcement that pupils in England should study maths up to the age of 18 to better equip them for the modern workplace.