We recently enjoyed Finance and World of Work Week with lots of interesting guests who came to talk to us. We had a visit from Mr Wood who came to talk to us about his work in the Navy. He told us that he was a submariner and a bit about his work on board the submarines. Mr Wood has been to lots of different countries and lots of us didn’t realise the opportunities that the Navy can offer. This was very interesting and we had lots of questions to ask him!

We also had a visit from volunteers from RBS Bank who came in to work with us on a budgeting exercise. We had to plan a party for a certain child and consider their likes and dislikes. We were trying to plan a party within a given budget and present our ideas on why we thought it was good value for money. Most groups managed to plan a party under the budget and could explain why they thought theirs was the best value for money. It was interesting to hear what the bank workers thought of our parties because we aren’t used to working within a budget.

Finally, we had a visit from a man who worked at the local Post Office. He told us about his work and the work that the Post Office do and he also told us about how the Post Office work with money such as exchange rates, mortgages and insurance. This was very interesting because most of us didn’t realise that the Post Office could offer so many different services.

World of Work and Finance week was great fun and we learned lots of valuable skills which will help us as we get older.