This week all the Primary 1 classes got together and had some very special visitors! We were very lucky to have 4 very kind parents come into our class and talk about their jobs.

-Lorna sells houses and told us how important it was for her to learn her letters and numbers at school so that she can write brochures for houses as well as value the houses. She even showed us a house worth £525,999! We tried, but we can’t count to that number just yet. We really liked the pictures of all the different types of houses (e.g. igloo, tree house, flat, etc.) and we were so happy to get a house colouring in picture at the end! Lorna has said that she will take the brightest and most beautiful pictures and put them on her window at work. Bring in your pictures to your teacher when you are done. Thank you again!

-Campbell told us about his job as a stroke nurse consultant. We were very interested to hear about what he does in his job every day and how he went to University to get his qualifications. We learned a lot about how to tell if someone is having a stroke.
F = Face – Can the person smile? Does their face look lop-sided?
A = Arms – Can they stretch their arms to reach the sky? Can they lift their arms?
S = Speech – Can they tell you their name? Does their voice sound funny?
T = Time – If someone is showing any of the symptoms above, it’s time to call 999 for emergency
Thank you again, Campbell for visiting our class and teaching us a very important lesson!

-Bryan told us about his job as an electrical engineer. He told us that he left school at 16 and joined the army. A lot of boys and girls were excited to hear about him driving the tanks! Instead of going to University, Bryan learned how to be an engineer whilst in the army. We are glad that Bryan does his job so that we all have electricity in our houses! Luke in P1b thought that Bryan’s job sounded very dangerous! Thank you again, Bryan.

-Mr Moffat told us about his job as an IT consultant. He told us about how his dad was an IT consultant also and he was brought up with IT and has been doing his job for a very long time. His favourite part of his job is problem solving – he likes to fix people’s problems! We are looking forward to learning more about problem solving in class too. Mr Moffat mentioned that the thing he least likes about his job is when people are very angry at their computers! We all thought it was very cool that he can build his own computers. Thanks again, Mr Moffat.

All the children had some fantastic questions to ask all of our visitors and were very intrigued to learn more about jobs in our community! Again, a huge thanks to the mums and dads who took the time to come in and speak to our classes 🙂

Have a lovely weekend and we hope to see you at the Church Service next Friday at 9:30am.

-All of Primary 1