Total votes
5-11 votes
11-16+ votes
Young people’s experiences with finances vary, depending on a multitude of factors, such as the lessons they’ve had at school and the number of open discussions they’ve had with the adults in their lives. For this topic, voters considered their confidence levels when it comes to saving and discussing money, before deciding whether schools should dedicate more time to improving student understanding on the subject.
Primary pupils discussed the question, "Is it easy to save your pennies?", whilst Secondary students considered, “Do you want to be more confident talking about money?” and College students debated, “Do we need to learn more about managing money?”
60,105 young people voted on this VoteTopic.
Saving can be easy if you know what you're saving for. The more money you save, the better the thing will be that you can buy.
We would benefit from learning about mortgages and running a home. It would also give us more confidence to manage our own finances should we move on to university, apprenticeships or running our own businesses.
We don't need to know that much about it now because as kids we don't have a lot of money to manage.
Thank you to Louise Hill, co-founder and CEO, GoHenry for responding to young people's voices on this topic!
“Our mission at GoHenry is to give young people a head start in life by helping them get smart with money, so it’s great to see so many of you want to increase your confidence with money and how you manage it. Savings is definitely one great way to do that so kudos to the primary schoolers already finding it easy to put their pennies away! Establishing good money habits from a young age is really important, so keep asking questions about money to build up your confidence and knowledge for the future.”
