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Sport provides an excellent vehicle for teaching financial education, particularly if it is associated with a local club – football, cricket or tennis. This activity explores ticket sales, travelling costs, players’ salaries and similar topics. You could run this activity across two lessons to allow more time for research and discussion. You may even choose to use these activities as a basis for a class ‘sport’ topic. Additionally, this activity, can be used in conjunction with ‘A Sporting Fan’ activity.

Explores real-life money management, and the pressures of buying merchandise in relation to sport. 

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A sporting chance

Sport can be a great way to teach financial education, particularly if it is associated with a local club, for example football. This activity explores the cost of items and value for money through ticket sales to games/matches. You might want to deliver ‘A Sporting Chance’ along with our ‘A Sporting Fan’ activity. Children will learn about budgeting, value for money and thinking carefully about how to use money through ticket prices at a sporting fixture.

This activity is part of our range of Money Heroes resources for children with special educational needs.

These resources have been adapted to be flexible for use in a range of settings and with children of varying abilities or special educational needs. Rather than using age groups or key stages, each activity has been given a difficulty level, based on children’s financial knowledge, skills and understanding. Practitioners should choose activities based on the financial capability level of the children they are working with.

This is an **expert** level activity – this level suits children who have a good level of financial education understanding and are ready to start developing their skills and knowledge further. 


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A sporting chance - Expert

This activity explores how easy it can be to get ‘carried away’ spending money, using the example of being a fan of a sporting team. This activity helps children to think carefully about what can influence their spending, how much money it would cost to ‘have everything’ and why we should think carefully about how we use money. This activity would follow on well from the ‘A Sporting Chance’ activity.

This activity is part of our range of Money Heroes resources for children with special educational needs.

These resources have been adapted to be flexible for use in a range of settings and with children of varying abilities or special educational needs. Rather than using age groups or key stages, each activity has been given a difficulty level, based on children’s financial knowledge, skills and understanding. Practitioners should choose activities based on the financial capability level of the children they are working with.

This is an **advanced/expert** level activity – this level suits children who have a good level of financial education understanding and are ready to start developing their skills and knowledge further. 


A sporting fan - Advanced/Expert

Introduce the topic of advertising being used to influence people's spending decisions, follow on from *'A sporting chance'.* 

A sporting fan

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A sporting chance

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