We have been very busy in primary five learning all about the world of work. We have been further looking at our skills and strengths and thinking about what jobs we may be able to link with them.

A really interesting thing we did this week was looking at a day at school and a day at work. We couldn’t believe the amount of things that were the same. Then we looked at our favourite things about a day at school and we discussed how these should be our interests to develop further.

“I love to read and write. Maybe I could be an author.”- Ellie

“I love to help the little ones. Maybe I could be a children’s nurse.”- Sinead

” I love solving problems and mysteries. Maybe I could be a detective.”-Aiden

 

We also looked at all the jobs in the class and consulted with each other to write a final list of jobs and job descriptions for each.

We had lots of fun next when we had to  apply for one of these jobs. We filled in application forms and wrote about our skills and strengths and we even gave examples of our experience of using our skills.

Mrs MacFarlane then taught us about Persuasive writing. We went on to write about ourselves and how we really should be considered for the job! We used lots of persuasive words like punctual, motivated, responsible and trustworthy! We hope that this persuasive piece will help us prepare for interviews and writing CVs.

in our next blog we will tell you about our visitors, the interviews and who got the jobs!!!!!