00:00Logan Lee State High School in South East Queensland takes a different approach to learning.
00:07Its small farm is the centrepiece of a move to put wellbeing and financial literacy at the heart of its teaching.
00:15The traditional things that schools look for, like academic success, are underpinned by things like financial literacy.
00:22U10 students Cassie Sorensen and Alyssa Rosario say financial literacy is helping them plan for their dreams of being a teacher and paramedic.
00:31I knew that I had to save up but I didn't really know how to do it that much.
00:34A house, yes. It's terrifying that you're already thinking but you need to, yes.
00:39The lessons include running a budget, avoiding scams and bad debt and planning for the future.
00:45Definitely saving towards like university and stuff because that like is expensive and then just like as an emergency fund.
00:51So what do you think about financial literacy?
00:53Principal Kerry Shepherd credits the course and a wellbeing focus with turning around a school facing more than its share of disadvantage.
01:01That might include we have students who are refugees.
01:04Four years ago 44% of students left school without plans for study or work. Today that's down to 20%.
01:12Rather than just, you know, rolling the dice and seeing where it lands, they make deliberate decisions based on actual information, not TikTok videos.
01:19Put aside a percentage for savings for you first.
01:23Financial literacy isn't mandated in the national curriculum. Instead the school relies on a course called Cashed Up, run by a not-for-profit.
01:30One in five Australian young people are finding financial matters as one of the most stressful things in their life.
01:37They have sat hours.
01:38At Logan Lee they'd like to share their success and want financial literacy to be mandatory across the country.
01:45So what do you think about being a good point?
01:46In my opinion.
01:47You know what the reason is, that your university is in school.
01:49Opened and nobody has a good place.
01:50It's the reason is that you need to receive—
01:53You know, it's better.
01:54Oh, well, you know, that I'm in at your house, you know.
01:57But I think there's a big deal for the schools like, you know, some of the schools that are firms in the community.
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