Thames High School Thames High School

Year 10 Digital Financial Literacy

10DFL
Course Description

Teacher in Charge: Ms C. Green.

This course is a required one-term course for all Year 10 students.

In this class, we will combine skills of digital literacy and financial literacy.

Get to know how to understand and plan for earning, saving, budgeting and spending your hard earned money. Gain an understanding of Kiwisaver, payslips, tax, debt and investing.

Focus on Personal Budgeting and Spreadsheet use and understanding.

Hints and tips to enable you to use digital technologies to help completing the tasks in a more efficient manner.


Course Overview

Term 1
Combine skills of digital literacy and financial literacy.

Get to know how to understand and plan for earning, saving, budgeting and spending your hard earned money. Gain an understanding of Kiwisaver, payslips, tax, debt and investing.

Focus on Personal Budgeting and Spreadsheet use and understanding.

Hints and tips to enable you to use digital technologies to help completing the tasks in a more efficient manner.

Term 2
Combine skills of digital literacy and financial literacy.

Get to know how to understand and plan for earning, saving, budgeting and spending your hard earned money. Gain an understanding of Kiwisaver, payslips, tax, debt and investing.

Focus on Personal Budgeting and Spreadsheet use and understanding.

Hints and tips to enable you to use digital technologies to help completing the tasks in a more efficient manner.

Term 3
Combine skills of digital literacy and financial literacy.

Get to know how to understand and plan for earning, saving, budgeting and spending your hard earned money. Gain an understanding of Kiwisaver, payslips, tax, debt and investing.

Focus on Personal Budgeting and Spreadsheet use and understanding.

Hints and tips to enable you to use digital technologies to help completing the tasks in a more efficient manner.

Term 4
Combine skills of digital literacy and financial literacy.

Get to know how to understand and plan for earning, saving, budgeting and spending your hard earned money. Gain an understanding of Kiwisaver, payslips, tax, debt and investing.

Focus on Personal Budgeting and Spreadsheet use and understanding.

Hints and tips to enable you to use digital technologies to help completing the tasks in a more efficient manner.

Learning Areas:

Technology


Pathway

Digital Technologies Level 1

This goes beyond a career and into necessary life skills.

Career Pathways

Office Administrator, Receptionist, Graphic Designer, Technical Writer, Animator/Digital Artist, Mining Engineer, Advertising Specialist, Copywriter, Sales and Marketing Manager, Aeronautical Engineer, Mechanical Engineering Technician, Business Analyst, Software Developer, Patternmaker, Statistician, Architect, Architectural Technician, Art Director (Film, Television or Stage), Artist, Film and Video Editor, Sound Technician, Electronics Engineer, Glazier, Baker



			


				

Disclaimer

Courses outlined will only be available if sufficient students wish to take them AND appropriate staff are available to teach them.

Courses that do not run may be offered through distance learning and be supported by the Distance Learning Department.