Written by Banqer.
As an educator, it can be challenging to plan and deliver interactive lesson content that effectively engages and educates your students. That challenge can be even trickier when it comes to teaching financial education. That’s where Banqer comes in!
Our mission is to empower educators with innovative tools to deliver real-world financial education that enables every student to financially thrive. More than 700,000 students across Australasia learn with Banqer, which gives primary and secondary educators quality, effective, and engaging tools through real-world simulations that make the learning stick. These learning modules are flexible and aligned with the real world as well as curriculum requirements, making both the teaching and the learning easy.
Banqer runs across three platforms, each built for a different stage of school: Banqer Primary, Banqer High Junior, and Banqer High Senior. In Banqer Primary, students explore income and charitable giving, weekly expenses and needs vs. wants, and get their first taste of the working world through classroom jobs and CVs. Banqer High Junior builds on that with banking, careers, budgeting, superannuation, insurance, and investing, working through real-world scenarios like renting. Banqer High Senior goes further again: alongside career options, students can explore higher learning, get a wider range of insurance, and navigate public and personal transport decisions. There’s also a wellbeing topic, where students see how everyday choices, like a better bed or a healthier meal plan, add up over time.
Every Banqer account comes with a library of resources to support teachers at every stage: lesson plans, slide decks, worksheets, and activities that reinforce key financial concepts and extend students further. They’re designed to prompt real conversations and build genuine financial decision-making skills, giving teachers everything they need to deliver a lesson with confidence.
And if you’re at NES, you’ll get one of the first looks at the new Banqer Primary platform. We’re bringing it along for a preview ahead of early access opening in term 4, and you’ll be able to get hands-on with it yourself. It’s built to work alongside your existing programmes, and it’s still free for Australian primary schools.
Find us at banqer.co/au, and pop by if you’re at NES to see it for yourself.