STAFF from Wales’ largest building society have gone back to school to provide financial lessons to more than 1,000 Welsh primary school children across the length and breadth of the country.

Principality Building Society team members taught more than 40 classes of children aged between five and 11 at Welsh primary schools, including Pontypool's Victoria Village School.

The lessons, eight of which were in the east, came during Financial Capability Week (FINCAP), which aims to improve financial capability for people of all ages across the UK.

Principality colleagues spent time with children from the Abersychan school to explain the importance of having savings and how to save effectively.

Eve Wilkins, Principality Building Society's regional manager for east Wales, said: “Principality colleagues across Wales see helping their local schools as an important way of immersing themselves in their communities.

"It’s what we stand for – helping people prosper at every stage of their lives and across all generations of families.”

Head teacher Joy Dando said: “Principality’s finance lesson will have a big impact on the young people at our school, helping them to understand even more the importance of good money management.

"We want pupils to go on to prosper in the future and the support of Principality will be beneficial to ensuring that will happen.”