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Autumn Budget Resources

Wow, a budget on a Wednesday has thrown me!


This one has quite a lot to digest, including some pretty nuanced ideas to teach.


I've used the following reports/analysis. It's potentially a but left-leaning, but I wanted to use free but reliable news sources.



I've made a bunch of activities to pick and choose from:


  • Tax research

    • This asks students to explain how some key taxes work.

    • No A-Level knowledge needed.

  • Useful terms match up

    • Covers concepts from GSP to Fiscal Drag

    • Can infer almost all of is without A-Level knowledge

  • Impact Assessment

    • Inferring how the policies will affect different groups in society

  • Policy Analysis

    • Looking at the intended outcomes of specific policies

  • Chart Analysis

    • Noting what the chart tells us about the changes made (or not made) in the Budget

    • Good for getting a feel for scale and scope of changes

    • No A-Level knowledge needed

  • Macro Impact

    • Asking the broader question of how macro-objectives might be affected

    • Y1 Macro knowledge needed

  • Quotation hunt

    • Finding quotations from the Executive Summary to match claims

    • Good for practising application

    • No A-Level knowledge needed as long as they have done the tax research and useful terms match up

  • MCQs

    • Basic comprehension

    • No A-Level knowledge needed

    • There is also a Microsoft Forms verison here


They are all reasonably self-contained and self-explanatory, so can be set for cover or homework.



If it helps, my plan for Y13 is:


  • Useful Terms Match Up activity for starter

  • Crowdsource Tax Research

  • Go over some background context - I originally considered going through this article from Economics Observatory on the UK's Economic Inheritance and filling in the worksheet at the bottom of the page before going on to the Budget stuff, but instead I've decided to go with this article which I think will be a bit quicker, we'll probably just talk through the charts. I

  • I'll then print the Guardian article at 80% scale so we can annotate it, adding in graphs/explanations/comments - lots and lots of modelled 'reading like an Economist'

  • Will play it by ear a little but will probably set Chart Analysis and Macro Impact for homework


My 12s haven't done any Macro yet, so I'll probably just give them the Tax Research, Match up and MCQs as homework, have a quick discussion and keep the others in my back pocket for cover work over the next few weeks if needed.











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