Our Courses
We provide courses for primary and secondary educational institutions
Our goal is to build programmes for people of all ages and stages who wish to develop their life skills
Primary School Toolboxes
As mandated by the UK Government’s Curriculum and Assessment Review (November 2025), it is essential for children to be given a grounding in financial literacy as early as possible in order to have the best chance of managing their money well in adulthood. To that end, it will become a core part of the primary school curriculum in Britain from September 2028.
To fill the gap in time before this is rolled out nationwide, Bedrock Skills is developing a ‘core competencies’ curriculum suitable for KS1 - KS2 to ensure present primary-age children are given the same advantages.
Topics include the following, with examples of core knowledge and associated skills:
Banking / Financial Services
Understanding how banks store money, explaining that the money they hold belongs to other people, and why it should be kept safe
Budgeting / Money Management
Exploring the language around money (“save”, “spend”, “market”, “shop”, etc.), coinage recognition, how to exercise self-control in spending and saving, and why this is important
Money and Work
Explaining how and why adults work to earn money, exploring many different kinds of jobs and recognising the value of all kinds of work (both paid and unpaid)
Consumer Awareness and Rights
An introduction to consumer awareness and consumer rights: exchanging money for goods and services, self-regulation, money counting (realisation of numeracy), and exploring consumer language (“buy”, “sell”, “pay”, “price”, etc.)
Mindset, Wellbeing and Healthy Habits
Emotions & money, and how they can impact each other (gratitude, honesty, generosity, kindness), managing oneself and accepting limits without distress
Safeguarding and Staying Safe
Keeping money safe, identifying trusted adults (family, teacher, shop worker), and asking for help
Secondary School Toolboxes
Bedrock Skills aims to aid and enhance the existing PSHE curriculum as well as providing a plethora of additional and optional toolkits.
Material can be delivered across a variety of time horizons: in coordination with school timetables; pre- or after-hours classes; or summer holiday packages.
Bedrock Skills presents the following toolkits and examples from the extensive curriculum:
FINANCES: (de-mystifying the language and providing real world context)
What are the different numbers on my payslip mean?
Where, when and how much tax do I pay?
Where does my tax money go?
When and for purpose, do I need insurance?
What is “Compound Interest” and why is fundamental to saving, and means of saving (ISA, physical assets, pension)?
History of money and what is money’s ‘intrinsic’ value?
What is inflation (RPI / CPI) and is it a good or bad thing?
How to rent and buy a house?
What is credit history, why is it important?
What is a pension (defined benefit + contribution), when do I ‘get’ one and why are pensions considered important?
Tax avoidance vs. tax evasion?
Why is financial language so complicated, please explain it for me? - stocks vs. shares vs. equities, bonds vs. debt, yield vs. margin vs. profit, revenue vs. sales etc
Debt explained: the benefits (credit history, mortgages) and the downfalls (credit card AERs, cars on finance, payday loans etc)
What are the 10x things I can do to help my money management and what are the 10x things I can do to damage my finances?
UK LAW & CITIZENSHIP:
Implications of a criminal record for employment, travel etc?
What would my ‘rights’ be if I were to be arrested?
What is a company (sold trader / limited company / partnership) and how do I start one?
How to get my money, if someone has not paid me (small claims court etc)?
How is the UK legal system structured (magistrates, crown, supreme court) and why does this matter to me?
What are my rights as a customer / consumer and where do I go for help?
UK POLITICAL & GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES:
Structure of the ‘establishment’ (Local Government, Civil Service, House of Lords, House of Common, ‘Quangos’ etc?
Breakdown of supranational organisations, their history and their purpose (UN, IMF, World Bank, NATO etc)?
History of the EU and Britain’s involvement?
Why are houses in the UK so expensive?
How to read a demographic pyramid and what it means for the future?
PRACTICAL SKILLS:
How to change a car tyre, top up engine oil + windscreen fluid and re-inflate tyres?
How to unblock a loo?
Home safety explained: Carbon monoxide, smoke, gas, electricity, general fire
How to wash clothes (different heats, colour dyes, hand washing, tumble dryers)?
How to iron clothes?
What to do if your home loses power / how a fuse board works)?
Bleeding a radiator?
MEDICAL: (*if delivered with First Aid training package with qualified medical personnel)
*Essential emergency response & CPR
What is my mobile phone doing to my concentration and how can I monitor and change this?
What to do if you are directly involved in, or arrive at the scene of a car crash?
What to do if someone has an epileptic fit?
What to do when someone is non-responsive due to drugs or alcohol?
What is a tourniquet and how is it applied?
What to do if I have diarrhoea and vomiting?
TRAVEL:
What to do if arrested in a foreign country?
What to do if you lose your passport?
What assistance can a British Embassy provide?
How do I avoid getting sick?
What medication am I allowed to travel with?
Why “cash is king” in an emergency?