Learning area 4

Exploring jobs in my community

What does community mean to you?

A community is a group of people that have contact with each other and usually live near to each other.

There are lots of different kinds of communities.

Communities can be all different sizes.

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What does community mean to you?

• These are all examples of communities:– Your family– This class– This school– This town / village / suburb – The local church / mosque / synagogue / temple – The school football club– Local Brownies / Scouts – The local choir– Ethnic / cultural community group.

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What does community mean to you?

We all belong to some communities, and there are other communities that only some of us belong to.

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My community - post it wall

• Can you think of somebody from your community who helps you?

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My community - post it wall

• Write down:– their name– a little bit about them

and what they do– how they help you.

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Community interview

• You are going to interview people in the local community.

• Remember to always be polite.

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Community interview• You are going to find out things like:

– Person’s name– Person’s age– Where they live– What they do for a living– What a normal day is like for them– Who they work with– Whether they’ve done different things for a living in the past– Whether they went to university / college / do any other

courses.– What careers advice they would give to people now in

primary school.

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Mystery guest

• We are going to have a mystery guest in today’s class.

• You have to find out what the guest does for a living.

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Mystery guest

• You can ask the mystery guest questions about what they do, but the guest can only answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’.

• For example: Do you wear a uniform for your job?

• Put your hand up to ask a question.

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What’s in your brain?

• What have you learnt about jobs in our community?

• Fill your ‘brain’ with everything you have learnt.

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