English money - hey there 3G and 5/6T !

Hi 3G and 5/6T,

We thought  you might all like to see what English money looks like.

These are all the coins.

They have pence and pounds instead of dollars and cents.

They count the pence the same way we count cents.  There are 100 pence in one pound.  Instead of writing $ you write £

There is a 2 pound piece, a 1 pound piece, a 50 pence, 20 pence, 10 pence, 5 pence and they also have 2 pence and 1 penny.  The 2 pence piece is huge, it is almost as big as the 2 pound piece.

Most people just say 'p' instead of pence.

The 50p and the 20p both have 7 sides. Their 50p doesn't have as many sides as our 50c and it is smaller.

The 20p smaller than the 10p which I think is weird. The 5p is even smaller than our 5c.

The other side of the coins looks like this

They all have the Queen on the other side, just like our coins.

These are some Australian coins and English coins together so you can see the different sizes.

This is what some of the notes look like.

One pound is worth about $2.00, so when we see the cost of something in the supermarket we have to double it to work out what it is worth in Australian money.  So over here it looks like everything is really cheap because lots of things only cost £1 but really they cost $2.

We hope you liked seeing English money.

Have a great day at school.

from

Aidan and Holly