Budget 2026 resources
This is really a placeholder. Be sure to check back, as I'll be adding more documents and activities both before and after the budget. For now, here are the two explainers which could be useful to go through before students see the budget, since it allows them to think critically about what they are hearing. Lots of schools are on holiday when the budget will be announced, so these might be useful as holiday homework. The first is on How Taxes Can Change (ie not just rate
Edexcel Exam Info
I often refer people to the fantastic Edexcel assessment support page, but I sometimes found it inconvenient having to move between the collapsing sections, so I've copied and pasted that text into a PDF. None of it is my own writing, I just wanted to share in case it's in a more useful format for you.
Pizza Inequality
A hands-on station for open days, or a quick hook for the start of a lesson on inequality. Visitors cut a paper plate “pizza” into five slices to show what share of the nation’s wealth they think each fifth of the population holds, from the poorest 20% to the richest, and you then reveal the real UK figures. The richest fifth hold around 74% of wealth, while the poorest fifth are in debt overall, which is the grey slice and the part worth stopping to explain.