The Sunshine Room children enjoyed a visit to the police station towards the end of term as part of learning about our community and the different jobs we can do there. They all enjoyed seeing the different areas of the police station and, of course, the vans with their sirens and flashing blue lights were popular with most. Thank you to the staff at the police station for their patience and time to show us around as well as to those parents who were kind enough to accompany us on our visit. Hopefully, we should be able to rearrange our postponed visit by the Rainbow Room next term.
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Tag: social studies
What Will You Do When You Are Grown-Up?
Before we started our World of Work week we talked to the children about the types of jobs they might like to do when they are grown-up. We have already shared some of the ideas from the Sunshine Room so here is a selection from the Rainbow Room.
Joshua M: I want to be a footballer. You need skills with the silver football.
Max A.: a fireman – you need to be good at putting the hose out.
Sian: a hairdresser. You have to be good at cutting.
Kacey: I want to run a shop. I need to be good at counting money.
Max L.: a policeman – you need to be good at running to chase people.
Ben W.: I want to be a farmer. You need to be good at milking, feeding the cows and driving the tractor.
James: I want to be a builder. You need to be good at making cement and be good at building.
Finlay: I want to be a train driver. You need to be good at blowing the whistle.
Thom: I want to be a footballer. I need to be good at kicking the ball.
Emma: I want to be a vet to take care of animals and make sure they stay in overnight if they are injured.
Orla: I want to be a police girl. You have to chase and arrest people if they’ve been bad.
Brogan: I want to fly an aeroplane.
Owen: I want to make sandwiches at Subway. I’ll have to count the money.
Keegan: I want to be a fireman putting out fires.
Peter: I want to be a policeman and take bad people away.
Olivia: I want to have a job in the kitchen making sandwiches.
Kobi: I want to be a policeman. I’d have to drive the cars.
I wonder what they will all be doing twenty years from now?
Doctors and Nurses
Owen’s family likes the photo of him on our “dress as your favourite job” day:
“Great photo of Owen, he really loved being Dr McGregor for the day, a great task for them to do, he was really excited about it.”
He does really look the part. I think we will all be alright as we get older because lots of the children want to be doctors and nurses when they are grown up so we should be well look after.
Guess The Job
World of Work Week was a great experience for the children, learning about lots of different jobs and encouraging them to think about what skills they need to do certain jobs. It was great fun on the last day of our special week when everyone could come dressed for a job they would like to do. As you see from our photos, we had a wide range of ideas from ship’s captain to optician, chef to farmer and lots who want to join the medical profession. I wonder what jobs they will all be doing in twenty years time?
Tesco Tales
Thom’s family has been looking at the photos of our visit to Tesco:
“We were in Tesco and Thom showed me the door that led to the very cold fridge and freezer! He also told me about the tokens and what charities they were for, he enjoyed the visit very much.”
Well done Thom for remembering all about your visit. I think we all enjoyed it and learned lots about working at Tesco.
Visit To Tesco
Shoppers at Tesco may have been a little surprised recently to see lots of Nursery children looking round the store as part of our World of Work Week. We went from the heat of the bakery ovens to the chill of the walk-in fridge and freezer to learn about how food is stored and baked. The area where the lorries make deliveries and the equipment that is used to move them showed the children another side to work at Tesco that they never normally see. The checkout was also popular as everyone had a turn to scan items through the till. We tasted different fruits, watched the chickens turning and heard about all the different types of milk they need to store … it really was a very busy visit.
Thank you to all the Tesco staff who were so patient and helpful on our visit as well as to those parents who came with us on our visit. We learned lots about working in Tesco and everyone was delighted with their goody bag to take home.
Learning About Our Post
The recent visit from a postal officer made the children think about how letters and parcels reach their doors. There were some interesting ideas but Lenny the Letter’s DVD helped the children to learn about a letter or parcel’s journey. We then heard about the different equipment a postal officer uses, including an exciting visit to the playground to see the postal van, and we were amazed that our special visitor even knew where lots of us lived. I wonder if any of our Nursery children will end up delivering our post in the future?
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Police Visit
There have been so many great jobs to find out about during World of Work week and one of the visitors adding to the children’s career ideas was our local police officer. Although the main suggestion from the children was that a police officer spends the day putting bad people in jail, they started to think about what other things they might do and came up with some good ideas. Once our visit was over, a few decided to act the part of a police officer and looked quite the part. We are all looking forward to visiting the police station soon when we can find out a little more about this popular job.
Life on a Farm
One of our visitors during last week’s World of Work activities was Jim’s Mum who told the children about her work on the farm. We appreciated the time she had taken to bring photos of the farm and the animals as well as some samples of animal food which you can see the children examining in several photos. Some children thought that the cow’s food didn’t smell very nice but Ben pointed out “That’s ’cause it’s for cows. They like it”. Thank you to Jim’s Mum for providing the children with a great insight into working life on a farm.
Fantastic Week
Thom’s family has been looking at the photos of our visit from the fire officer and the engine:
“it looks fab….Thom was keen to tell me all about this and how loud the siren was and how they had to cover their ears. What a fantastic week its been with so many visitors”
It was a great week and the children really enjoyed having all the visitors in talking about their different jobs so thank you to everyone concerned.