Communities work together to help and support each other

Lines of inquiry

• Members of communities
• Roles of community members
• Special places within the community

Concepts

• Form, function and connection

Learner Profile

• Caring
• Inquirers

Learning Experiences

Excursion

• Bus Wash – we played ‘Spotto’ to locate community services.

Community member visits

• Fire fighters from Philip Station
• Constable Kenny - personal safety
• Remembrance Day Prayer Service
• Air force member - helping assist in war
• Italian cooking with Daniela's Nona
• Wood work with Laura's mum
• Fred Ward Gardens visit
• St Vincent de Paul - helping those less fortunate

We had our classrooms set up with shops, cafes, a post office and office spaces. We used dress ups to role-play different community members.

We read lots of books and stories about community.

We walked to the shops to spot community services in our local area. Afterwards we thought about what else our community might need.

During our community walk, we noticed 5 vacant shops. We identified what we thought our community needed the most…

I want to buy guitars in a Rock ‘n’ Roll shop. – Max

I think we need a shop where we can buy clothes for when our clothes get broken. – Mattes

I think we need a police station. If there are lots of bad pets we can send them to jail. – Noah

This is a ballet shop. We can buy ballet clothes to go on stage and do our dance. - Grace

This is a fruit shop. It has bananas, apples too and grapes. I will build it next to Coles. Our school should get some fruit and eat it. It’s yummy for your tummy – Joseph

A glasses shop for blind people, like my brother – Hansel

I think a fish and chip shop because we get hungry - Jason

We have been identifying the different community groups that we belong to.

To demonstrate our learning we built our own communities using blocks and construction.