1. Exploring jobs in my community
Learning area 4
Exploring jobs in my community

2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. My community - post it wall
Can you think of somebody from your community who helps you?
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6. 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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7. Community interview
You are going to interview people in the local community.
Remember to always be polite.
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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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