Financial literacy curriculum for Key Stage 3 & 4 students
Ready-to-teach lesson plans aligned to UK classrooms. No prep required.
Trusted by 100+ UK schools including:
The Portsmouth Grammar School
Gravesend Grammar School
The City Academy Hackney
Didcot Girls' School
Gladesmore Community School
West Grove Primary School
Financial literacy lessons in the UK with MoneyTime
MoneyTime is an online financial literacy program for students ages 10 to 15. The program teaches them how to manage their own money and what they’ll need to know to make smart financial decisions as they get older.
The program consists of 11 core financial literacy lessons & 20 extension lessons, all of which are self-directed & imitate real life experiences – from wages, savings and tax to mortgages, buying real estate and simple investing.
Earning, saving and interest
Employment and tax
Budgeting and payment methods
Borrowing and credit
Purchasing property
Investing
Business basics
Insurance, warranties and online safety
Why choose MoneyTime for your financial literacy lessons?
No teacher training required
You don’t have to be financially trained or have a strong working knowledge of money - MoneyTime does the teaching for you.
Students work through the self-directed lessons on their own.
Then we provide you with practical activities to spark conversation and expand on what has been taught in the program.
Regular automatically marked assessments
MoneyTime has automatically marked quizzes and tests to assess student progress after each lesson. Easy-to-follow reporting functions provide detailed feedback on student results for yourself, your exec team and your board.
Learning through play
The financial literacy lessons are combined with a fun money management game which maximizes students’ engagement and enjoyment.
They earn virtual money for correct answers, which they can spend in-game by purchasing, saving, investing or donating. These decisions simulate real life decisions & help students understand the impact of their choices. They learn from trial & error without risk or fear of failure.
Built-in parent engagement
In addition to the core and extension classroom lessons, there are 13 lessons for students to complete with their parent or guardian. These are optional but highly recommended as they enable students to put their learning into their own life’s context.
Parents love that their child is learning how to be smart with money, and are often surprised at their child’s level of understanding of the personal finance topics gained from the MoneyTime program.
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See how MoneyTime’s financial literacy program works for UK teachers
Teacher demo of MoneyTime’s UK financial literacy program
Aligned with UK curriculum
MoneyTime’s content contains equal amounts of literacy (reading, vocabulary, and comprehension), maths and social education.
Class fits include: PSHE, Citizenship, Maths, Enterprise/ Business Studies/ Economics, Personal and Social Development (PSD), Health and Wellbeing and Tutor Time.
Click below for MoneyTime’s curriculum fits for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
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£2 per pupil per year
Teachers rate MoneyTime’s school program
I'm so pleased with how intuitive and user-friendly it all is!
~ Ambigha Krishnakumar, Teacher of Mathematics, Didcot Girls’ School, Oxfordshire
My students are having great time completing the modules and having the whole programme self-directed makes my preparation much easier!
~ Aggie Zielinski, Assistant SENCo and Finance Club teacher, St Thomas More Catholic School, London
MoneyTime has been a fantastic addition to our tutor time programme: the girls are desperate for me to unlock the next modules so that they can get working on it in their free time. I cannot recommend it highly enough!
~ Alex Healey, Head of Year 7 & 8, Badminton School, Bristol
MoneyTime United Kingdom case study
Discover how a teacher is bringing financial education to life with MoneyTime in the UK
At Oratory Prep School in Reading, Christopher Sizer, Head of Prep & Head of Innovation, integrated MoneyTime within weekly innovation lessons for Year 7, using it as a flexible way to teach financial education without adding pressure to the timetable. Having seen the impact with Year 7, Christopher has already extended MoneyTime across year groups, giving students exposure in both Year 7 & Year 8. Read how MoneyTime has earned a place in Oratory Prep’s innovation curriculum.
Regular testing shows a 42% average increase in knowledge across 130,000+ students
Implementing MoneyTime with your students
Flexible to use
The 11 core modules & 20 extension modules fit equally well into Maths, PSHE, Citizenship and Economics learning areas. They can be used as a supplementary resource or as an elective.
Quick & easy to implement
Getting started takes just 2 minutes. There is no training required or lesson preparation to do.
It’s just as quick for your students. They can start as soon as they have created their account and watched the short introductory video.
Easy to fit in
Each financial literacy lesson only takes thirty minutes - meaning plenty of flexibility. They can be scheduled across learning areas, split between year groups, used in tutor time or as extension activities, set for homework and are an easy filler for relief teachers. If you can’t finish them as a block, use them as end of year fun!
Practical lesson guides
MoneyTime provides lesson guides that include intended outcomes, new vocabulary, teaching tips and activities and discussions for you to do with your students after each lesson. These are highly recommended for feedback, questions and reinforcement.
Fitting MoneyTime into your timetable
Completing just a handful of MoneyTime modules will be immense benefit to your students. However if you’d like them to complete all 30 modules, here are some ways that other teachers fit them in:
Split modules by year group e.g. Year 7: Modules 1–11, Year 8: Modules 12–22, Year 9: Modules 23–31
Set MoneyTime for a group of students whilst you take another learning group
Use during tutor time or as an after-school activity
Assign modules for homework
UK Interclass Competition
Classes across the United Kingdom compete for the title of Best Financial Literacy Class in the UK.
Every class using MoneyTime is automatically entered in the competition.
Scores are based on students’ module quiz results and the percentage of students completing the program in their class.
It’s a fun way to stimulate interest in financial literacy and generate some healthy inter-class rivalry!
The competition runs each year from September to July in the UK.
Hear from teachers using MoneyTime
Internationally award-winning program
Best Primary Product in the Global Edtech Awards 2025
Selected as one of the top 100 education innovations in 2023
The Money Awareness & Inclusion Awards - 2022 Runner-up
Children’s Education Program of the Year - 2022 Winner
ST4S Assessed
The MoneyTime financial education program has been assessed by Safer Technologies 4 Schools under framework version 2024.1 and has successfully qualified to be part of the ST4S Product Badge Program.
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