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Celebrating International Women’s Day and Global Money Week
As part of International Women’s Day (8 March), we profiled Cassandra Portelli, a secondary school teacher in NSW. Using Global Money Week, Cassandra is increasing girls’ financial confidence to help them secure their financial futures.
[Cassandra Portelli (far left) with her class]
Cassandra Portelli is the Head Teacher of the Mathematics faculty at Hunter School of the Performing Arts in Newcastle. In her 27 years of teaching she has made it a priority to embed financial literacy education across faculties and schools.
In 2016 she won an inaugural CHOOSEMATHS Award for innovative teaching. In 2018 she was the recipient of the NSW Premier’s First State Super Financial Literacy Scholarship and travelled to The Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Canada and the US to research how other countries celebrate Global Money Week and how can these ideas be applied in Australia.
One of the ideas bought back to her school was the publication of students’ stories around money. ‘Money Talks’ (2019) is the result of a financial literacy competition run at the school where students submitted answers to the question: “What is the smartest thing you or someone you know, has done with their money?”
In 2020, Cassandra was successful in applying for the Moneysmart Funding for Principals of Secondary Schools. The school is using the funding to celebrate Global Money Week with a competition inviting the students to demonstrate financial literacy through their chosen performing art.
Global Money Week (23-29 March)
Global Money Week (GMW) is an annual financial awareness campaign built to inspire children and young people to learn about money matters, livelihoods and entrepreneurship. Initiated by Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI) in 2012, it is now organised by the OECD International Network on Financial Education (OECD/INFE).
The theme for GMW this year is Learn. Save. Earn.
Featured content
Below are some resources you can use to support your planning of Global Money Week 2020 in your school:
- Global Money Week 2020 Toolkit
- ABC Education
- Dollar Street by Gapminder (gapminder.org) is an online resource that uses photo stories of 264 families across 50 countries to showcase how people around the world really live. Gapminder is an independent Swedish foundation promoting fact-based world views that everyone can understand.
Below are some Moneysmart resources to support GMW's theme:
GLOBAL MONEY WEEK [LEARN]
The fun begins: Plan, budget, profit
[Year 6] Students work with a budget of $1,000,000 to develop an environmentally-friendly nature fun park based on a number of conditions.
GLOBAL MONEY WEEK [SAVE]
Be Moneysmart (Module 1): Saving, budgeting and spending
[Year 9-VET] Students establish savings goals, create a budget and a savings plan.
GLOBAL MONEY WEEK [EARN]
Smart consumers 4 a smart future: Money matters
[Year 9-10] Students investigate how households can make sustainable choices to minimise household expenses and invest savings to earn more money.
This sustainability focused resource teaches students about being responsible consumers while exploring a range of real-life issues.
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