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Yesterday I attended the launch of , a new resource about financial capability for S1-S3 from , with our radio producer Richard Bull. It was a lovely event, held at the in Glasgow, and starring the pupils of .

The idea of Small Change is to encourage financial responsibility and make learners aware of the issues around money. There is a DVD featuring familiar domestic scenarios about money, . Their live performances yesterday at the Citz were so professional and engaging - truly a credit to everyone who was involved, especially their teachers and the , which includes the . I particularly enjoyed the one about the pic-'n'-mix - you'll have to get a copy of the DVD to see it!

Richard and I had gone along to see what was happening in the world of learning about money, having previously met with Frances McGrane and Liz Heron from the , who had been very helpful in showing us the existing provision. Richard is currently thinking of making some short radio programmes for younger learners about the responsibilities of dealing with money. In the current climate, it seems to me that money is a bigger issue than ever, and educating ourselves as well as our young people surely must be a step in the right direction to averting future problems?

If you've any thoughts about what we might want to include in our financial radio programmes, please do get in touch by the usual means. Listen out for our Schools radio programmes - the schedule can be found online, and they are a valuable addition to any lesson.

Comments

Hi Claire. Thanks so much for coming along yesterday. We had a brilliant time and I thought the young people excelled themselves. We would be keen to contribute in any way you felt was helpful to the making of Richard's radio programmes. We are keen that the Small Change Project is taken into other schools in the future so this may be a way for us to let people know about it! Cheers for now, Louise
Louise Brown (Citizens Learning & TAG)
Fri Jan 30 15:59:51 2009

Hi, any chance of getting an RSS feed for this blog? Thanks.
Katherine
Thu Feb 5 09:17:35 2009

Claire, Thanks for your blog and for all the very positive comments about the launch of Small Change at The Citizens Theatre in Glasgow. I have been involved since the day of the filming at Bannerman High School but thought the live performances last Thursday were mature, moving and very professional. We are already taking steps to make Small Change available on our website and have started discussions about filming a Gaelic version !
Kenny Ferguson (Dev't Officer, SCFE at LTScotland)
Mon Feb 9 13:11:25 2009

Hi Katherine, there's a bit of work going on behind the scenes into ´óÏó´«Ã½ blogs - we'll hopefully be getting one of the new and improved versions by the end of March, with better functionality, RSS etc. Meanwhile hope you can live with the manual updates - you could try following @clara_og on Twitter to be alerted to new posts. Thanks for the suggestion!
Alistair Mooney (Assistant Producer, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland)
Tue Feb 10 15:19:26 2009