As part of our IDL work for People Who Help Us, P1/2 have begun to set up their very own Post Office in the role play area of the classroom and have been using DVDs and books to learn about how the people who work there, help us.

This morning we took advantage of the beautiful weather, to take a walk in the village, to visit Lyndsey and her staff in the village shop and Post Office and do some real-life shopping in the shop and Post Office.

Whilst we were at the shop. We got some shopping for some of the teachers. Mrs Devlin needed some teabags, Miss Brown needed a packet of biscuits and Mrs Turner needed a stamp for her letter. None of the teachers had given the correct amount of money to buy these things, so the girls and boys had to work hard to identify the coins, count them up and some of the P2 children could even work out how much change they needed! It’s a good job we have been doing lots of money work, in class, over the past few weeks.

Once Imogen and Molly had put the stamp on the envelope, the letter was ready to post and Esme and Mrs McNally carefully crossed the road to put it in the post box. Our tip out helped us learn lots about how people help us in shops and post offices.