CHILDREN AND MONEY
The Personal Finance Education group (PFEG) and HSBC have just published the largest ever survey into what primary age children think about money – surprisingly three quarters are already saving with one in ten saying they put money aside for their future car/house/university. The What Money Means programme is the first nationwide programme of lessons in debt and money management, aimed at improving financial capability in primary schools.
Joining Libby to discuss the results of the survey is Wendy van den Hende, Chief Executive of PFEG.
Reporter Judy Merry has been to the Red Lane Primary School in Bolton where they are teaching finance.
YOUTH MUSIC WEEK
Youth Music is the UK’s biggest music charity, targeting children who ordinarily wouldn’t get the chance to make music. Youth Music week is launched this Wednesday at the National Gallery and includes a huge series of music events and free workshops all over England and Wales, from classical to urban and singing to drumming.
Libby Purves is joined by All Angels, the World’s First Female Classical Super-group and one of the music acts involved in Youth Music week. They perform The Sound of Silence from their new album Into Paradise.
Also joining Libby is Youth Music’s Chairman, Richard Stilgoe to discuss what events are happening during Youth Music week and the charity’s wider aims. Richard also gives an update on teenage band ‘Revolt!’, following their creation last year through Youth Music.
EDUCATION SINCE THE 1950s
Libby Purves is joined by Dr. Adrian Elliott who spent 37 years teaching, 18 of those as a head, and has been an Ofsted inspector. They discuss his book State Schools Since the 1950s – the good news - which argues that the current performance of English State Schools is far more successful than widely recognised – either compared with that of schools in the past or those abroad.
TEACHING AWARDS
One of the sources quoted in Dr Adrian Elliott’s book is the late British educationalist and academic Ted Wragg. Ted Wragg’s name is now lent to one of the annual Teaching Awards which aim to give teachers the recognition they deserve.
Libby Purves is joined by this year’s winner of the Ted Wragg Award for Lifetime Achievement in London, Heather Rockhold, Head of Lauriston Primary School in Hackney.
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