Billy’s monthly earnings are used to help children understand payslips, including the deductions that might be taken from someone’s earnings and why. Children will begin to develop an understanding of tax and how this helps to provide things that we all need.

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.