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Talks & Workshops

Personal finance is an area that students regularly tell us they want to know more about, but has not historically been something we have covered outside of a passing glance in PSHE. Really Helpful Club put together an amazing morning of workshops for us focussed on Financial Literacy and getting our students to start thinking about their Financial futures,both in the short and longer terms. Sarah and her team worked closely together with us to put together a programme of fantastic speakers who carefully tailored their material to the needs of our students, and pitched it a the perfect level. Feedback from the boys was extremely positive, and showed this is definitely an area they want to know more about. We would love to welcome them back again soon!

“When we surveyed our sixth form to ask about what external speakers and workshops they would like ‘financial literacy’ came up again and again as something our older students wanted to talk about. With this in mind, we were thrilled to host the Really Helpful Club and David Holton to speak to our U6 to introduce them to the financial decisions they will be making in the coming months and years.

Informative and detailed, David’s presentation guided the students through the complexities of student loans, how to budget effectively and the magic of compound interest! His engaging talk was one of our most attended Teams events of the year and students have enjoyed using his ‘leave behind’ materials to continue these discussions in form time.

The feedback from the session has been excellent with one parent getting in touch to say, ‘…thank you very much to whoever delivered the Financial Awareness talk to the sixth form – it must have been excellent. I had the most animated and interesting discussion with X for well over an hour afterwards. Definitely an eye opener for him…’ We are already thinking about how we can embed this topic into our sixth form PSHE curriculum and we look forward to working with David and the Really Helpful Club in the future.”

The feedback has been hugely positive from staff and students today – thank you so much, to all our panellists, to Sarah and Caroline, and of course our team here. What a brilliant kickstart to a more financially literate student body.

Thank you so very much for your time, energy, wisdom and inspirational messages today. The girls have had a fantastic time and really enjoyed their introduction to the unchartered territory of the financial world and their own personal financial timeline. I’ve had students stopping me at lunch and after the workshops to tell me how interesting it has been and how much they’ve learned; eyes shining and brains whirring with ideas. Thank you for being your brilliant selves and for putting so much time and effort into making our first financial education event such a success.

Thank you so much for steering the evening so effortlessly and fabulously. Alicia’s talk to our parents was interesting and enlightening. She spoke so knowledgeably and relevantly about protecting children’s mental health. Her expertise was evident as she spoke effortlessly about the issues and in a way that was encouraging to all parents. I have received many positive comments from parents to say how much they valued the chance to think about the things they can do to encourage positive mental health.